Jennifer Weiner Quotes
The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.
Weiner, Jennifer. Good in Bed. Pocket Books, 2002.
In 1877 Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh attempted to publish The Fruits of Philosophy in Britain. It was a book on Birth Control. The two were immediately arrested and charged with publishing an ‘obscene’ book. Gifford was the Public Prosecutor. The authors were convicted and sentenced to 6 months in prison. However, they appealed and were exonerated in the appeal. The case was good for Gifford who went on to become Lord Chancellor of Britain. The trial was a strong motivator for Annie Besant to have a very activist career thereafter.
The Job Corps was planning allowing poor girls to enter as well the program which had been so successful for the boys. The immediate issue of the supply of birth control devices faced the program. Shriver, then the Poverty Czar with the concurrence of President Lyndon Johnson authorized the use of Federal moneys to pay for birth control devices for the female Job Corps members. This appears to be the first time that the Federal Government officially used public funds for birth control. Even with the voluntary ability of the girls to obtain birth control, pregnancy was still one of the major reasons for dropping out of the program.
At the time, even with all the barriers that many states placed in the way, over 1 million legal abortions were performed each year.
This is an important reason to preserve the right of women to have abortions that few people make out loud in public, but is a major factor in the vast majority of the decisions women make each year to have an abortion.
Jennifer Weiner is an American writer, television producer, and journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her debut novel, published in 2001, was Good in Bed. Her novel In Her Shoes (2002) was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine.
