But it’s entirely understandable that most women in the early days of our history want to be housewives. By the mid-19th century, the city was full of low-income women, working 13 or 14 hours a day. One of them, Hester Vaughan, has become a feminist cause. As the suffrage told her, she was raped by her employer in Philadelphia, remained pregnant and abandoned in a cold, food-free attic. Eventually, she gave birth alone and was found lying on the floor next to her dead baby. She was tried for murder, hanged, and finally pardoned by the governor. It is a great example of the need for an abortion option.
It may not be fair to fix Hester Vaughan’s fate to Clarence Thomas, but we need to look back at the time when he felt it was the golden age of reproductive rights. He is talking about the land in front of Griswold vs. The Supreme Court of Connecticut, 1965, ruled in part that it was unconstitutional for the state to ban the sale of contraceptives.
At that time, anyone convicted of using contraceptives in Connecticut could be sentenced to up to a year’s imprisonment, even for a couple already raising six children. In one of the few opportunities for official debate in the state legislature, The Times reported that the motion to amend the law was rejected by a voice vote “less than a minute”.
Regarding abortion, the whole country was talking about Sherry Finkbin, the host of Arizona’s children’s television show. When she discovered in 1962 that the sedatives her husband brought back from a trip abroad contained thalidomide and that she had taken enough to damage her fetus. I got pregnant with my fifth child.
Finkbine had planned an abortion, but she felt obliged to let the world know how dangerous those sedatives were. Her attempt at an anonymous source was a complete failure, and when her story was published, the hospital canceled her procedure, the court refused to give her support, and she said, “Romper Room. I lost the job of hosting.
Finally, after a lot of publicity, she succeeded in having an abortion in Sweden, where the doctor who performed the procedure said the fetus had undergone a major transformation. However, when she returned home, she found that a local TV station considered it “inappropriate to work with her child.”