50 Years Later, in 2017, women and family rights are still in debate.
Judy Flander is posting 100+ historical newspaper articles covering the women’s movement in DC in the ’70s. Read about the leaders, issues and fights for Reproductive Health, ERA, and more as they are relevant for today.
1920: Women’s Right to Vote Ratified
1972: ERA passed Senate and House, still short on State ratifications in 2017
1973: Women and family freedom on privacy of reproductive health affirmed
2017: Skimm Study: “Millennial Women Worried About the Future of Their Reproducive Care”
2017: July 4, NYT, Michelle Goldberg. “The Playboy President and Women’s Rights”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/donald-trump-women-reproductive-rights.html?
Excerpt: “Donald Trump’s name adorned the first casino in America to have an in-house strip club. He is the first American president to have made a cameoappearance in a soft-core pornography film, and he has called his struggle to avoid sexually transmitted diseases while sleeping around his “personal Vietnam.” When Trump the candidate was asked last year whether any of his paramours had had an abortion, he refused to answer.
This is not a man who shares the longtime Republican goal of rolling back the sexual revolution. Nevertheless, after nearly six months in office, Mr. Trump has already surpassed George W. Bush as the American president most hostile to reproductive rights and measures to promote sexual health. There is a deeply insulting irony in this: American women are being stripped of their sexual and reproductive autonomy not by a moralizing puritan but by an erotically incontinent libertine.”
