right-wing women and, 2 3 1 -3 7
return to illegal, 99, 171, 172
woman-superior model of, 202,
as right, 97
2 0 4 -1 0 , 2 1 5 - 1 6
right-wing view of, 32 -3 3
Anti-Semitism
right-wing women risking illegal,
A d olf Hitler and, 122, 148
104
Christian Right and, 139, 142
right-wing women’s view of
fundamentalist expression of, 33
legal, 10 2 -3
Holocaust and, 12 2 -2 3 , 138
in sixties, 9 4 -9 5 , 9 9 - 1 0 0
Jesus Christ and, 33
social effects o f prohibiting, 192
and Jew s depicted as rapists, 126
as torture for sex, 74
Ku Klux Klan and, 1 1 2 - 1 8 , 142
use o f contraceptives, married
Nazism and, 142#, 1 4 8 -4 9
women and return to illegal,
as passion, 121
2 3 2 » -3 3 »
at w ill, 149
Asians, 155
Assimilation o f Jew s, 14 0 -4 1
Abraham, 131, 137
Austen, Jane, 39
Acton, William, 180
Actress as woman empowered to
Babies,
act, 1 7 - 1 8
Bates, Jerom e, 72
Battery
Califano, Joseph A ., J r., 99
cause of, 143
Carter, Jimmy, 99
incidence of, 223
Cesarean sections, 188
Beecher, Henry Ward, 57#
Charcot, Jean Martin, 152
Beauvoir, Simone de, 44
Chesler, Phyllis, 15
Birth control, 41, 93, 149-50*
Children, 38
232#-33#
and conservatism o f women,
criminal and illegal abortions
1 3 -14
among married women,
effects o f having, 143-48
232#-33#
forcing women to have, 33
illegal abortions and illegal, 73
Nazis and, 148, 149
Pregnancy)
principle of opposition to, 103
God and bearing, 144, 145
of the sixties, 94
Blacks
welfare for women and their dewith dependent children, 165
pendents, 165-69, 173
Douglass on, finally accepted by
women refusing to bear, deservwhites, 123-24
ing to die, 105
hatred of, as passion, 121
Christ,
hurt by, and dying from illegal
Christianity
abortions, 9 8 -9 9
Paul and institutional, 110,
motherhood and respect for, 143
125-27, 135-38
percent o f old, as percent o f pop
ulation, 155
Circumcision, 126
and population control, 148, 149,
Civil rights, 86
151
marital law as violating, 7 8 -7 9
and sixties counterculture, 89, 92
Clafin, Tennessee, 57
and Southern welfare depart
Clitoridectomies, 162
ments, 162-63
Cloward, Richard A ., 162, 167
and welfare, 162-63, 168-72
Colette, 85