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Ursula Le Guin on life before Roe vs Wade… From her book of essays Words Are My Matter @bookstodon

My friends at NARAL asked me to tell you what it was like before Roe vs. Wade. They asked me to tell you what it was like to be twenty and pregnant in 1950 and when you tell your boyfriend you're pregnant, he tells you about a friend of his in the army whose girl told him she was pregnant, so he got all his buddies to come and say, “We all fucked her, so who knows who the father is?” And he laughs at the good joke. They asked me to tell you what it was like to be a pregnant girl—we weren't “women” then—a pregnant college girl who, if her college found out she was pregnant, would expel her, there and then, without plea or recourse. What it was like, if you were planning to go to graduate school and get a degree and earn a living so you could support yourself and do the work you loved—what it was like to be a senior at Radcliffe and pregnant and if you bore this child, this child which the law demanded you bear and would then call “unlawful,” “illegitimate,” this child whose father denied it, this child which would take from you your capacity to support yourself and do the work you knew it was your gift and your responsibility to do: What was it like? I can hardly imagine what its like to live as a woman under Fundamentalist Islamic law. I can hardly remember now, fifty-four years later, what it was like to live under Fundamentalist Christian law. Thanks
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@sinabhfuil @bookstodon It is no mystery why cultures that value the opinions of women are more successful than those that work like hell to stifle them. And it just highlights that for all the moral blather and religious justifications . . . it's all about power and how to make sure half the population doesn't have any.

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Elizabeth Winter

@sinabhfuil @bookstodon Long ago, my upstairs neighbor Dolores used to be her typist/assistant. And (not because of that, just remembering decades gone by) I remember those days. I sent the story of my dear friend Christine (RIP) to Sen. Susan Collins along with a wire hanger last year.

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Colin Rafferty

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The Princess

"Once upon a time, long, long ago, in the Dark Ages, there was a princess … She went to a college for training female royalty, and there, at the associated college for training male royalty, she met a prince … Although the princess was on the Honors List and the prince was a graduate student, they were remarkably ignorant about some things …This was long ago, remember, in the Dark Ages, before sex was obligatory, before the Pill…"

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READING is THERAPYUrsula Le Guin on Abortion: “The Princess" & “What It Was Like” - READING is THERAPYExcerpted from “The Princess” originally published in Dancing at the Edge of the World, 1982: “Once upon a time, long, long ago, in the Dark Ages, there was a princess … She went to a college...
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Scott Knowles

@sinabhfuil @bookstodon I was born in 1949, a year after my sister. Mom said I was surprise and born into family who only wanted two children (brother born 6 six years earlier). She said she doesn't know if she would have had an abortion if it was available, but being wife of an officer, you don't get to choose. Me? I've always been extreme pro choice person. It's sole right of the woman to abortion with no restrictions by anyone or any law.

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Eleanor LNR Blair

@sinabhfuil @bookstodon I love this, and I loved her longer piece too, which told how without the ability for this abortion the children she *did* have later, and loved, would never have existed.

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harveen

@sinabhfuil @bookstodon
Stand up for women against fundamentalist Islamists and fundamentalist Christians who would take away their rights and capacity to make their own decisions about their bodies and lives. Society hasn’t made all these advances for us to throw women under the bus again.

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