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It’s a womans rights issue to me.. Rickie Solinger really showed me this in her book Beggars and Choosers.. and Wake Up Little Susie..
She is a history writer and when she wrote Wake Up Little Susie.. she was comparing how African American women were treated in comparison to anglo women.. in the sixties..
When I read that book everything clicked home.. I remembered a lot of what really went down..
I went to see her speak and asked from the audience about birth control pills.. I knew from research that they were available in the year I was pregnant.. I could not remember or understand why I did not take them..
I do know I was in fear of going to the doctor..
She told me that women that were not married were not allowed birth control pills..
Women that were pregnant out of wedlock or were in a difficult marriage (in need of financial help etc) were not treated well in those years and Solinger documents it in her books..
The secret keeping is so hard on a person.. And we were (some of us as always) forced to do it.. Shamed from the word go..
CUB.. the women of CUB in the mid seventies started to fight back started opening doors.. Worked towards helping women like your birthmother.. Made it their mandate to open things up and help the ones that were emotionally brutalized by being forced to relinquish and then forced to keep it a secret..
It will not happen again.. thanks to the internet and groups such as CUB.. and the opening up of records..
Jackie
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