The film "Women in limbo", written and produced ~~o~t!:. ~b~~e ;»ue but rather on opportunity to put forth a feminist by women, is scheduled for the Joy Theatre downtown during mid-to-end of January. It is a story about three wives of American prisoner; of war of servicemen missing in action. Joan Silver wrote the story and analysis of this often very emotional issue . I hove called this column "A Woman's Right to collaborated with James Bridges on the screenplay. Lindo Gettlieb produced it ond Dorothy Spencer edited, Choose," not because women today hove the while Anita Kerr composed and conducted the musical right to chome, to control their bodies and reproductive functions, but because that must be score. the minimum basic demand of any feminist. The Previews, however, reveal o mediocre script and commercial performances by three newcomers to film; abortion inue clearly demonstrates both our Kate Jackson, Kathleen Nolan and Katherine Justice. strategy and goal. It is a form of strategy since "Women in Limbo" apparently foils to explore any new ir helps women to get the right to choose and attitudes or alternatives to the tottered subjects of makes it possible for ti-lem to exercise that right. tidelity, marriage, and the war itself. h is on aspect of our goal in that it gives to But congratulations ore due Anita Kerr; she is women (and men in the process) the right to reportedly the first woman to hove created and conducted choose the direction their lives should toke and the musical score of a major motion picture in the U.S. to give them genuine power over the things that touch their lives directly. ~ In the culture from which Today abortion is legal or liberalized in a We climbed the twisted ... rocky rood. I om bred, nature i~ coiled numi>er of states In New York a woman can Me ... on' my new hubby ..• Jood ... Mother Nature and God is hn get an abortion up to 24 weeks. 'Nhile the Pointin' t'words a crummy shed. quite exclu~ively Mole. 1 liberalization of laW$ helps some women they An' spittin' terboccy juice ... he said. am 1ikened to the earthy often discriminate against many more. Abortion aspects of human nature and today is for the sisters who con afford to pay the Behint that shed's m' likker still. my brother is Iikened to high fees and hove the mobility to travel to Our one room house is on the hill. Humanity. The ideas and states where abortion is legal. It is the very fhe kitchen sink is work in' swell ..• attitudes towards God ..,.1hicn same women who are most victimized by the But you'll draw the water from the well. permeate and perpetuate capitolist-sexistist system in so many other our ~landing outside of ways (iob discrimination, legal discrimination, You'll feed the chickens .chop the wood Nature ore those ideo~ ,f low salaries, etc.) who hove the least ability You'll do the cook in' ... on' yo' II do it good. o god who mode the earth to get safe, inexpensive, legal abortions if they An' when yo git yer housework oane ... The world ;;conceived of so choose. Yo c'n run my still. .like it should be run . o~ on o•tifoct, created by New York state provides on example of this plan and therefore possesseo in the period before the laws were liberalized. I picked o rock from off the rood ... of purpose end explanation It was found there that those who suffered most An' slugged my dear ... sweet ... hubby. Jood Chri~tionity and the nod~ from the laws were poor women, often block and Now he's buried on the hill dog machine which fol owed brown, whose only access to abortion was through Overlook in' the !ikker still. on its heels into every the backstreet butcher. In fact, before the law continent in which it tooK was changed, eighty percent of the women who 1 got o 'nether hubby now root, reflected o psychology died from abortions were block or brown (Sisterhood I also got o Jersy cow ... of man in which he is iden- is Powerful, p. 559). Furthermore, poor~ I draw the water from the well ::f!ed .,....ith o conscioJS ore often put irto a double bind by a system which An' like as not ... ] set o spell. intelligence and will may choose to limit their desired offspring by standing aport from Nature forcible sterilization. Many women in black I feed the chickens ... on' chop the wood communities have not supported abortion demands because they hove been the victims of farced I do the cook in' . . on' 1 do it good. An' when I git my housework done .. ......... to Control it Men, their right~ and sterilization. I run MY still . . like it should be run. nothing more, Women, The horror stories about these sterilizations are by Helen Hunt de Leuw their rights and nothing legion. Some states force mothers on welfare to Eureka Springs, Ark. less t 'ftJo• be sterilized after a certain number of children. Cther women hove hod their tubes tied, after giving Friends, let us stop talking birth too child, in a public clinic without their about sisterhood and make knowledge or consent. Many members of the black SISTERHOOD A FACT. community (especially men) argue that black poli- tical demands can only be gained through the OF COURSE you'Re LIBERQTED I Sigmund, this i~ what w• support of Iorge numbers of block citizens and that ~OU HAUE A JOB WE'RE ....,...,., wont therefore abortion demands do not gain their support. UUtNg TOgfTUcL you Pity Our hope is that our sons Poor women and women of color with their political yoaR OWN S~ARE IJOW, and our doughte1~ might grow os tree~ or blod-~ of grievances cannot be overlooked in a feminist demand for abortion repeal. This is o reason that the only U}O/LW you, PLEA5o f:IV L\5 gross, theio ·1i~i<""l e.,,., minimal acceptable prcgrom a feminist con work for Som6 DtNN£R 7 clear and worm as p~ is the demand for: free safe abortions on demand, light, moving in circ'e ..f no forced sterilization,_ no genecide of poor people and people of color, and free and adequate contra- \ enerdy and adoptive color~ which fla~h like J donee J: t~. ception for all those who desire it, regardless of age. rippling wind, their )Qt• No ~ingle port of this is sufficient in itself --all ore ever nurtured by he $Oi At ways a port, never aport, .................. closely related to the other;. Truth i~ relative to point of view, with appropriate ......,., raveling throu(!h ·nfinity truths arriving for appropriate times. Pre~ent events We do not de~ire to ule no longer appear to be caused or moved by post events, ..,ver men, but to rvle ove but rather they appear to be the earlier and later Ho:ps ourselves of the some event.