re: #190 Gus 802

The obvious point being that contraception prevents abortions. It’s just plain common sense.

Right. Well the significance of the Pill was huge for woman. I’m not sure a lot of men understand it and I’m not sure a lot of women born after the Pill became a household item understand it either. There were really only a few professions women could get. Telephone operator, nurse, teacher, secretary. Not much beyond that. Women could go to college before 1960, my grandmother born in 1890 went to college, but they didn’t do much with their degrees afterwards.

At any rate, women would take these few professions, but had to quit when they become pregnant. Went on to raise the kids and felt they had no lives of their own. Not that raising children is not fulfilling. It is. We just wanted more, or both. Family and career. The Pill gave us that option.