Seduced And Pregnant By Her Father's Friend

[ItsjustMe]

The Sad Grave of Kate McCormick
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/11/the-sad-grave-of-kate-mccormick.html

Snopes
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/botched-abortion-gravestone/

[chowder66]

1. Wow.

[patphil]

2. Yeah, not much has changed in the last 147 years.

[Hekate]

4. A great deal HAS changed -- but make no mistake, the GOPers want to take us back...

I well remember the shame-filled days of my high school years (grad. 1965), when girls who “did it” lost their reputations, and girls who got pregnant were forced to hide their shame by giving up their child. That’s the language of this story from so long ago.

I remember the enormous societal change that took place with the Pill became widely available, first to married women, then to women over 21, and finally by hook and by crook to nearly all women who wanted it. The “free love” of the later 1960s would not have been possible without the Pill.

Contraception freed us from endless cycles of pregnancy, freed us to pursue education, jobs, careers, to plan how many kids we’d have or if we’d have any at all.

Abortion completed the revolution by recognizing it as part of women’s health care. Now that it is being rigorously banned, we see why it is so necessary. Shit happens, and pregnancy can go deadly wrong.

Alito’s language in Dobbs sent a ghastly chill up our backs precisely because he resurrected the language I grew up with: “unwed mothers” and “out of wedlock babies” — and ultimately the “lack of adoptable babies.” “Adoptable (white) babies” used to be in superabundant supply precisely because young unmarried women were not allowed to keep them, and the shame was so strong some risked death to prevent those births when they got pregnant.

To repeat: there was a revolution 50 years ago. Younger women and men need to be reminded of how it was before then. Please don’t say “nothing has changed” — instead, please say, “Everything changed, and we won’t go back.”

[Timeflyer]

5. Agreed--we must not let our daughters and granddaughters go back to those dark times

[pansypoo53219]

3. milwaukee's paper had a story about a woman who died in 1875ish of an abortion.

she had like 5 kids + had had 10 abortions. talked about ye olde birth control + midwives able to 'get rid of problems. that abortion was common back then.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Not according to Alito.

[Mariana]

7. That gravestone isn't from 1875.

While McCormick passed away in the 1870s, it wasn’t until more than a century after her death, in 1997, that an anonymous donor placed the pictured gravestone on her final resting place.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/botched-abortion-gravestone/

[alphafemale]

8. It took 120+ years for someone to finally honor her

And that diminishes what happened to her in your eyes?

What is your point?

[Mariana]

9. It's generally a bad idea to include obvious lies in important stories like this.