Reply #26: I remember protests in the streets by the same prototype as today's [View All]

[Malva Zebrina]

anti-choice screaming people.

You will never guess what they were all "moralizing" about and protesting, carrying signs and practically the same as today

Birth control pills.!

Yes that is right. When the "pill" first came out. I remember it clearly.

So today's perception of the abortion issue by this generation, who are used to the notion of easy access to birth control, is quite different. Back then, you would not have heard someone say they could never have one themself, but they are pro-choice. Desperation and frantic attempts to right it were far more present than what is viewed today--both in attitudes toward a single mother, her pregnancy,and her life without a husband--all in the open and accepted. That was NOT the case in the fifties.

Today's values re abortion from younger people, include the easy birth contol situation that we have now. Woman did not have easy birth control then and condoms were hidden along with the boxes of Kotex, behind the counter. Those in the younger generation assume the situation then was as permissive as it is now. Women were ostrasized and shamed no end by most of society and their entire life was ruined.. I am serious. They often had to simply leave town, make up some excuse--have the baby, put it up to adoptive parents and they return as if nothing had happened at all. If they could not, they were shunned and, byw, so was the "bastard" the little baby.