Love from an older woman
by An older woman
I began having sex before the Pill. I lost a friend to a back alley abortionist. I suffered the humiliation of getting “permission” from a panel of anonymous male doctors to get an abortion in 1971 in Ontario. I have marched in every available parade carrying a placard that read “Every child a wanted child.” I serve on the Board of my local Women’s clinic. I am the strong, proud mother of two and the grandmother of two more. Know that your decision to stand strong and proud is not lost in the shouting. We hear you. We thank you.
Thank you for all of your hard work and activism. It’s women like you that made it possible for younger women like myself to exercise their right to choice. It’s just a shame so many young women aren’t aware of how much blood, sweat and tears it took to get that right recognized legally. I don’t take your work for granted. Again, thank you.
I would also like to Thank you. Because of Women like you, my Grandmother and my Mom, I have a choice. Alot of us don’t know what it’s like to have no voice or choice. So i will continue to vote and fight, so my daughter can have the same choices that you have allowed for all of us.