Last week, Justice May sentenced Paulette Whitfield to two years in jail for taking another woman's child.
Papers like the Sun and Afirror waxed indignant about this sentence. Heart-throb specialist Marjorie Proops of the Airror wrote, most right-thinking citizens will be shocked and appalled at the punishing sentence imposed on Mrs. Whitfield, who is clearly more sick than eriminal."
The Sun asked: "In the name et pity, how is that (the sentence) supposed to help this sad mixed-up girl, who so desperately wanted a NOT ILL Paulette is not ill or mentally disturbed. She has simply taken seriousty the myths peddied by hacks like Marjorie Proops that the role of women in capitalist society is to be a wife and mother. Reacting to her educational background, the media and the family, Paulette has realised that to become a 'whole' woman in this mentally sick, male-dominated. class society, she has to measure up to the capitalist ethic of motherhood Because class society needs to reproduce its labour force it needs the Stable family. Women are assigned to the role of being reproducers and the whole process is wrapped up in mystical nonsense about the hallowed maternat teetings of motherhood.
Capitalism sees the job of women as to tear children and look after the bread-winner. The work of the bousewife is not seen as teal work but as in act of love" for the family. When the is working outside the home this set as being secondary to her main task and therefore not warranting equal pay and conditions with men.
Paulette and her husband could not produce a child in the natural way.. The pressures of the tamily, the elect of traditional values of parenthood on her husband and the distorted values of personal relations- which decrees women shall be mothers made her take the action she did.
MARRIAGE Perhaps it was not a comcidence mother Capitalism preaches that chil The recent ravings of Keith Joseph were made to bolster that idea. Maybe Paulette took this morality at its face value and decided it was currect to put the child in a family unit.
about the sentence Justice May knew YOU REALIZE OF COURSE NO CHOICE BUT TO GNE YOU LEE. so-called anti-social elements.
A MYTH that she took the child of an unmarried. May and his class are beyond the reach dren should be the products of marriage she accepted their standards she tried the very people who had given her Although the Mirror and Sun whine her to jail.
Val Jones and Bob Pennington what he was doing In a tune of social crisis all the instiations of capitalist society begin to crack apurt. The rul ing class and their representatives are desperate to screw the lid down. They are determined to crush any deviatious from the accepted norms by the Under capitalism wealth is restricted to a small minority Fulfilled motherlood is a myth. The values peddled by of the Paulettes of this world, Because to solve her problems on their termis But she was on the wrong side of the class fence cad when she was caught those values were the ones who sent Over a thousand people marched in London last Friday to protest about MP James White's Private Members" Bill to restrict the 1967 Abortion Act. The demonstration, organised by the London Coordinating Committee of the Working Womens' Charter, was followed by a meeting at the Central Hall, Westminster, where a packed audience heard speakers from Brent Working Women's Charter Campaign, the Abortion Law Reform Association, and the Medical Committee Against Private Practice. EVERYMOTHE A WILLING MOTHER EVERY CHILD CHILD
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