Pre-Roe Story of a Woman Named Sherry Matulis
"I was 23, pleasantly married, the mother of two planned-for and
well-loved children (the number later grew to five) and working
nights… One night, I got off the 1:20 a.m. bus and started my usual
trudge home… He must have been waiting close to the building, in the
shadows. I didn't see him until he was on top of me, and I still
remember very little about the act itself…because when he threw me
down on the blacktop, my skull cracked and I blacked out…
Most of my clothing had been torn off and scattered… The knife was no
longer there, but it had been, and my guts were oozing out of a neat
X… I managed to survive. Only to find myself wishing, about a month
later, that I hadn't.
I was pregnant. And I was not pregnant by my husband. I was pregnant
by that fiend. And I could not stay that way.
My doctor would not help me, so I feigned migraine to get a
prescription for ergotrane… I went on a two-day castor-oil diet and
lost five pounds and a quart of hemorrhoidal blood, and nothing else…
I detested the taste of alcohol, but I held by nose and downed two
pints of Everclear…
My husband was ready to stick me in a straightjacket. He wanted me to
go through with the pregnancy - or rather, he wanted me not to kill
myself, or to be killed by the only sort of abortionist that was
available at the time…
But…I knew that had I given birth to a child conceived under those
circumstances, I would not be able to look at it without remembering.
And remembering would mean hating all over again. And I wasn't willing
to put myself or a child through that…
The Klu Klux Klan moves into a small Vermont town, stirring up trouble and showing the darker side of the town. Originally helping townspeople and doing charity events, the KKK goes too far and began to commit crimes against anybody who is not white and Protestant. In the book Witness by Karen Hesse Leonora Sutter is a, caring, and an honest young girl who lives in Vermont. She is the only black girl in her town and is constantly subject to the actions of the KKK and other members of the town.
alone, ignored his shadow and left it to grow. In the end his shadow was to big
St. Olaf College's theme for Women's History Month is "Women in Politics." The featured guest speaker was Sarah Weddington, the attorney who, in 1973, argued the winning side of Roe vs. Wade before the United States Supreme Court. This decision significantly influenced women's reproductive rights by overturning the Texas interpretation of abortion law and making abortion legal in the United States.
Sandra Cisneros short story “Woman Hollering Creek”, has many allegories about culture, morality, and gender roles.
On May 22, 2015 a letter from Mr. Gallagher was forwarded to the Command Center. In his letter, Mr. Gallagher stated the following: (Verbatim) On April 28, 1993, Lillian Hudson, who lived and owned 23A Vernon Avenue Brooklyn, NY, passed away with no known next of kin. This property remained uninhabited for many years. Officer Oneal, who lived down the block, was aware that no family came forward to take control of the premises. On December 07, 2008, Officer Oneal alleges that she suffered serious injury at the premises of 23A Vernon Avenue. On January 20, 2009, Officer Oneal started a lawsuit regarding the alleged injury she received at the above property. This was filed in Kings County Supreme Court under index #1362/2009, Blanche Oneal vs. the
Martha Mendoza is an American author who attended college at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She wrote an exceedingly intriguing pro-choice article on abortion appropriately titled "Between a Woman and Her Doctor". Abortion, defined as the intentional termination of a fetus, has always been an exceptionally controversial topic in American history. This topic has been all over the news for years with people advocating while others opposed. The only part left out in the fight for/against legalizing abortion was the type of abortion taking place, but the article explicitly elucidates that Mendoza was in a different situation since her baby was already dead. Nevertheless, Mendoza uses her research, personal experience, and facts persuade
The 1870 prosecution of Archibald Trammell and his two sons for an abortion performed on Trammell’s daughter.
In the later stages of her argument, Hursthouse goes through several arguments for how and why abortion might be a morally right decision and/or action, however, towards the end of that section, she makes a rather interesting (if not, peculiar) claim that “even in the cases where the decision to have an abortion is the right one, it can still be the reflection of a moral failing.” (262) Hursthouses reasoning behind this is that this is not to say that a person’s choice is itself one that is “weak or cowardly or irresolute or irresponsible or light-minded,” rather it is because one has failed to acquire or uphold various other character traits that are paradigm of a virtuous person, namely that they possess the traits of “strength, independence,
Barbara Mantel tells her readers about the abortion laws that were set in place to ban women to have abortion at a specific point in their pregnancy. She mentions these three different state laws and have they been set up to restrict women to have abortion. Mantel mentions how anti-abortion activists have been a big part to this
Texas statutes created it a criminal offense to acquire or try associate abortion except once medically suggested for the aim of saving the lifetime of the mother. Appellant Jane Roe sought-after a declarative judgment that the statutes were unconstitutional on their face associated an injunction to forestall litigant city County public prosecutor from implementing the statutes. Appellant purported that she was single and pregnant, which she was unable to receive a legal abortion by a commissioned medico as a result of her life wasn't vulnerable by the continuation of her physiological condition which she was unable to afford to visit another jurisdiction to get a legal abortion. Appellant sued on behalf of herself and every one different girls equally settled, claiming that the statutes were unconstitutionally imprecise and cut her right of private privacy, protected by the primary, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth
Gasping in terror I awoke and shot to my feet. He was gone, but where, how long had I been here and ...
In the past, many people believed that women’s exclusive responsibilities were to serve their husband, to be great mothers and to be the perfect wives. Those people considered women to be more appropriate for homemaking rather than to be involved in business or politics. This meant that women were not allowed to have a job, to own property or to enjoy the same major rights as men. The world is changing and so is the role of women in society. In today’s society, women have rights that they never had before and higher opportunities to succeed.
Katherine Commale is a 10 year old fourth grader from Pennsylvania. When she was five, she learned about malaria in Africa. She known that every 30 seconds a child dies from this disease. She learned about nets that can stop the mosquitoes. She asked her mother that why doesn't everyone have a net? She told her that many of the people in Africa are very poor and can't buy nets that price 10$. So she began donate money to purchase nets for children in Africa to help fight the spread of malaria. She started to teach people about malaria and mosquito nets. She made presentations at churches and schools. Every holiday season she makes something called a bed net gift certificate for give to people that donate for buy net and a net is sent to
Katherine Mansfield belongs to a group of female authors that have used their financial resources and social standing to critique the patriarchal status quo. Like Virginia Woolf, Mansfield was socioeconomically privileged enough to write influential texts that have been deemed as ‘proto-feminist’ before the initial feminist movements. The progressive era in which Mansfield writes proves to be especially problematic because, “[w]hile the Modernist tradition typically undermined middle-class values, women … did not have the recognized rights necessary to fully embrace the liberation from the[se] values” (Martin 69). Her short stories emphasized particular facets of female oppression, ranging from gendered social inequality to economic classism, and it is apparent that “[p]oor or rich, single or married, Mansfield’s women characters are all victims of their society” (Aihong 101). Mansfield’s short stories, “The Garden Party” and “Miss Brill”, represent the feminist struggle to identify traditional patriarchy as an inherent caste system in modernity. This notion is exemplified through the social bonds women create, the naïve innocence associated with the upper classes, and the purposeful dehumanization of women through oppressive patriarchal methods. By examining the female characters in “The Garden Party” and “Miss Brill”, it is evident that their relationships with other characters and themselves notify the reader of their encultured classist preconceptions, which is beneficial to analyze before discussing the sources of oppression.
My stomach retched, my throat dry, had I got myself into this mess? A distant thud echoed across the cold, hard floor, ricocheting into my ear. Someone was coming.