Much has been made recently of the War on Women taking place in our
nation's Congress and in the governments of many states. Battles
are being waged to wrest control of reproduction away from women,
fights women thought had been won with the advent of the Pill and
the ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973. They were wrong. Fear is at the
heart of it all, just as it was back in the mid-nineteenth century
and early twentieth century when immigrants poured into the United
States. At that time, the West was open to settlement, and Yankees
were determined that it not be settled by the Irish, Poles,
Scandinavians, Slavs, and such like; these people would get too
much political clout. White men were in a panic, but what could
they do about it? They'd enlist the women by passing laws against
birth control and abortion; thereby, literally forcing women into
maternity in an effort to outnumber less desirable, in their eyes,
the people flooding onto our shores. Information about
contraception was considered obscene and prohibited by the Comstock
Act of 1873, an act against distribution of any obscene material
through the mail. Many states passed similar laws, referred to
collectively as the Comstock Laws. Sometimes the states' laws
outlawed both the use and also the distribution of contraceptives.
The earliest laws against abortion were laws against the
commercialization of abortion producing plants. But the push was
on, and by 1880 every state had criminalized abortion, with the
exception of therapeutic abortion to save a woman's life. Today,
white men are again in a panic for fear of becoming outnumbered in
the United States by Hispanics, blacks, Asians, and Native
Americans, who will by 2050 make up about 54% of our country's
population (US census). With minority status comes loss of
political power-my G-d we've already got a black President What to
do? They decide, consciously or subconsciously, to enlist the aid
of white women. Women, however, fight the proposed strictures on
contraception and abortion. They've tasted the freedom that comes
with control of reproduction, of having a life beyond diapers and
parent-teacher meetings. They're becoming doctors, and lawyers, and
such: Forced Maternity? No way. Fear of the "invasion of the
immigrants" has again raised its ugly head, this time; women will
refuse to passively knuckle under.
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