I finally read 'The Way It Was' and my reaction to it was that awful not shock, but still rage reaction.
I remember in school we watched a fictional film about abortion through the generations, as part of RE. Just to explain, because I know linking religious ed and abortion sounds like a huge disaster, the RE curriculum lost its religious focus in the final two years of our secondary school education. It moved onto being more about big topic social issues like euthanasia, human rights, torture, the death penalty, which were presented with more of a liberal focus, or at least a 'make up your own mind' focus. Anyway I think Demi Moore was the actress who played a woman who had to jump down the stairs, try hot baths with gin and finally use a rusty coat hanger on herself and that passing comment in the article really pushed the image back into my mind of Moore getting the coat hanger and bleeding out.
There is no valid reason to debate about whether abortions should be legal for me and this article expanded my reasons for oppossing anyone who thinks there is, when it comes to this issue. Strangely I'd never thought of the abortion provider as a potentially lecherous threat to these women, or people who would deliberately place women in danger for money. I grew up with media images of kindly male drs like in 'The Cider House Rules' and female backstreet practitioners who tried their best, even if they knew what they were doing could be dangerous. Which I realise now is a way idealised picture of the situation. Useful to think of the dangers women faced from the people they were forced to turn to, without regulated medical support for their abortions.
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I remember in school we watched a fictional film about abortion through the generations, as part of RE. Just to explain, because I know linking religious ed and abortion sounds like a huge disaster, the RE curriculum lost its religious focus in the final two years of our secondary school education. It moved onto being more about big topic social issues like euthanasia, human rights, torture, the death penalty, which were presented with more of a liberal focus, or at least a 'make up your own mind' focus. Anyway I think Demi Moore was the actress who played a woman who had to jump down the stairs, try hot baths with gin and finally use a rusty coat hanger on herself and that passing comment in the article really pushed the image back into my mind of Moore getting the coat hanger and bleeding out.
There is no valid reason to debate about whether abortions should be legal for me and this article expanded my reasons for oppossing anyone who thinks there is, when it comes to this issue. Strangely I'd never thought of the abortion provider as a potentially lecherous threat to these women, or people who would deliberately place women in danger for money. I grew up with media images of kindly male drs like in 'The Cider House Rules' and female backstreet practitioners who tried their best, even if they knew what they were doing could be dangerous. Which I realise now is a way idealised picture of the situation. Useful to think of the dangers women faced from the people they were forced to turn to, without regulated medical support for their abortions.