The majority of the women in the world are treated as property. In the United States, wonderful achievements have been brought to fruition, and obstacles have been overcome.
Yet we have much to do.
Here you will finding a continually growing repository of current and informative thoughts on the present state of being a women and keeping women healthy.
We deserve this, as do men. We are different. We need to address these issues clearly. Objectivity may lead us to a path which allows awareness to overcome thousands of years of subordination.
We are mothers, daughters, wives, significant others, friends, professionals, laborers. We are a slice of the cross section of life. We must be healthy, we owe it to ourselves and mandate it to ourselves. We have achieved so much. Join me and learn.
Comments, posts, replies – all are welcome. Join us as we journey through life to be the most wonderful persons we can be.
Thank you. It is about time, someone addressed women’s health from an objective perspective, not biased toward the agendas of gender. I appreciate your efforts and applaud them.
Sharon
It is amazing to me, utterly unbelievable. Half the world’s intelligence and ingenuity and innovative talents are with our women (if not more than half, we really do not know yet do we?). Please, i do not mean this in any subordinative way.
This is a beautiful blog. I look forward to reading it daily through my RSS reader. Women are the greatest untapped resource on the planet. I studied women’s issues at a Major university and am dumbfounded that most countries treat their women like second class citizens, property with no more rights then the donkeys they don’t get to ride. I could go on forever, I would like to post if that is possible.
Societies must legislate equality for half their population their women. I love how it was stated in one of these posts. Women are everything to their significant others, from caregivers, to providers, to the wellspring of new life. We should cherish them as the equivalent pertners in life that they are. If not more.
So few well done blogs. This one is perfect.
Bill
Abortion is stupid.
Crista Booth sounds stupid. Come on make a point. Support it with fact.
Abortion healthcare? Last I checked, it doesn’t improve a woman’s health, but it can destroy her health, both physical and emotional. And don’t deny it… I have watched several friends change after their abortions. They never were the same.
Abortion is a woman’s issue? Abortion empowers women? Abortion makes women free, no longer a piece of property?
That’s a bunch of crap! History has a way of repeating its self…better take a history lesson. The founding feminists, the ones who fought for our right to vote and to own property where actually very anti-abortion as well. And fought to make abortion illegal. They claimed abortion was a man’s was of exploiting a woman, and that abortion was a disgrace because it treated their offspring like property.
And low and behold, 100 years later, those dirty deviled men are at it again… pressuring and forcing women all across the USA to abort their kids so they don’t have to provide for them and their mothers. Ever heard of Tom Likus’s “Hail Mary Approach” ? Happens all the time. Men exploits women through abortion.
Susan B. Anthony
In her publication The Revolution, she wrote:
“Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!”
Abortion was referred to as “child murder.”
The Revolution, 4(1):4 July 8, 1869
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote:
The Revolution, 1(5):1, February 5, 1868
“When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.”
Emma Goldman
“The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief…So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.”
Mother Earth, 1911
Mattie Brinkerhoff
“When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society – so when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged.”
The Revolution, 4(9):138-9 September 2, 1869
Victoria Woodhull
The first female presidential candidate was a strong opponent of abortion.
“The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.”
Woodhull’s and Claflin’s Weekly 2(6):4 December 24, 1870
“Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child, nor think of murdering one before its birth.”
Wheeling, West Virginia Evening Standard, November 17, 1875
Sarah Norton
“Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned…Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?…Perhaps there will come a time when…an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood…and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.”
Woodhull’s and Claffin’s Weekly, November 19, 1870
Mary Wollstonecraft
As early as 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Women,” which Susan B. Anthony admired enough to serialize in The Revolution. After decrying, in scathing 18th century terms, the sexual exploitation of women, she said:
“Women becoming, consequently, weaker…than they ought to be…have not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affection…either destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.”
Matilda Gage
“[This] subject lies deeper down in woman’s wrongs than any other…I hesitate not to assert that most of [the responsibility for] this crime lies at the door of the male sex.”
The Revolution, 1(14):215-6 April 9, 1868
Alice Paul
The author of the original Equal Rights Amendment (1923) opposed the later trend of linking the E.R.A. with abortion. A colleague recalls her saying:
“Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.”
If you ever considered giving up or had thoughts about giving up your baby, please watch my sonogram at 17 weeks. It’s in color and in 4D.
c42bHi Abby,Once again I felt compelled to rpsoend to your post. Your writings have touched me to my core because I am able to relate to you in such shameful way. Like you, I had 2 abortions; first was surgical, second was the abortion pill. All of those questions you asked yourself, I did too (and still do, sometimes). I’m sure you’ve heard of a ministry called Rachel’s Vineyard. If you have not already attended one of these retreats, I’d like to gracoiusly extend an invitation to you. On my own retreat many of my questions were answered and peace and hope was finally found. I now have 2 beautiful children and am ALWAYS reminded of the two that I will never be able to raise. I lost out on that amazing opportunity and blessing that, back then, I didn’t understand. But I think of them often, pray to them, and ask them to pray for me. Thank you, again, for sharing your heart with the world and for personally having an effect on my life. Your faith is so strong and so admirable.be
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