WGST-140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Reproductive Rights, Child Labour, Margaret Sanger

• School: Georgetown University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST-140
• Professor: Christopher Emerald

Document Summary

1950s women faced 3 decades of childbearing without contraception role of religion: catholic church against contraceptives. Priests told women that faces of unborn children would haunt them on their death bed or they would go to hell. Race and nationality: go to pr to test. Lack of information given on the pill and doctors didn"t listen to patients and their symptoms. Telling women that they need to have babies (to become soldiers) and throw away their pills. Ultimately, take birth control at same rate of white women. Idea that we tend to look at contraception through one lens (liberation) problematic. Safe, legal abortion has less risk for women than having unwanted children or raising children without proper resources. (similar to smith) Argues that the catholic church cannot make the claim that the souls of the unborn children will not go to heaven (because they haven"t been baptized). Completely contradictory to other teachings of the church.