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From: zubbie@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Margaret Sanger on shared responsibility for birth control
Message-ID: <642@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 15:26:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 15:26:12 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Mar-85 04:19:15 EST
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Reply-To: zubbie@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck)
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In article <496@harvard.ARPA> horton@harvard.ARPA (Nike Horton) writes:
>
>	"In an ideal society, no doubt, birth control would become 
>	the concern of the man as well as the woman.  The hard,
>	unescapable fact which we encounter today is that man has not
>	only refused any such responsibility, but has individually and
>	collectively sought to prevent woman from obtaining knowledge by
>	which she could assume this responsibility for herself."
>
>		Margaret Sanger, *Woman and the New Race*, 1920
>
>
>While perhaps the latter has changed, it seems from the previous
>discussion that for the most part, the former is still valid.
>-- 
>Nicholas Horton	    	    System Manager
>Cambridge, MA               Aiken Computation Lab
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>ARPA:  horton@harvard 	BITNET:  HARVUNXH%HORTON


The thought has not gone unnoticed but what is suprising to me
or perhaps it shouldnot be, are the factions who have not made
too much of the aspect with regard to birth control etc.

It is my body and it is therefore my responsibility if I end up
pregnant but once I am pregnant then the discussion seems to
taper off (no flames re abortion please).
The women of today have taken a greater initiative than our
mothers in this regard but essentially we are still at the
mercy of the concept that if there is any birth control
to be used it should be the woman's responsibility. This
is hogwash and the sooner we can get society to admit that
it takes two people to make children and so both parties
(read sexes if you will) have a vital and ongoing need to 
share that responsibility. Without that sharing women will
never really ever be equal.
The usual cop-out by the way is that it is easier and
more spontanaity (sp) can be acheived if the woman takes
care of such things. I am not sure where that notion got
started but I would guess that it might have arisen after 
women began attempting to have some control over the matter.
Men simply had to say, "OK Little Girl  - Go Ahead and 
see to it so that we can be free to do as we please (as males 
that meant a liscence to play ).

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jeanette zobjeck

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