Greater Syracuse Chapter Notional Organization for Women

MAY 1981

WOMEN IN FICTION SEND ME NO ROSES TOPIC OF MAY MEETING Betty Bone Schiess

Vanessa Ochs will speak on "What is the Responsi­ May Tenth is Mother's Day. Why is it that the bility of Women Writers in Creating Women Characters thought of all of those flowers and all of that candy, in Fiction?" at the May meeting of the Greater Syracuse and all of those sermons, delivered with smiles to all of Chapter of the National Organization for Women at those mothers, makes me despair? May Memorial Unitarian Society, May 19, at 8PM. I adore my own children. Unlike the parents who Ms. Ochs is a lecturer in the English Departments wrote "Dear Abby" to say that if they had it to do of both Colgate and Syracuse Universities. She teaches over again they would not have children, I might well creative writing and mime history and techniques at choose to be a mother again. University College. Ms. Ochs, a playwright and a fiction And there's the rub. If I really choose, it is because writer, will discuss the effect of the women's movement there is a possibility 'of saying "no" as well as "yes". on the creation of women characters in current fiction. For the most part we "choose" to have FROM THE PRESIDENT children without "weighing the con­ Rowena Chaiton Malamud sequences" as the Book of Common We are in the final countdown. At this writing, Prayer wouid say. there are 13 months and 26 days until June 30,1982. We choose to have We have no time left to waste. children in order to NOW is initiating a Message Brigade/Petition Cam­ justify an otherwise paign as part of our total mobilization to push ERA barren life, barren, ratification over the top. We are seeking 1,000,000 that is, of significant members of the Message Brigade who will be available, and important com­ at a moment's notice, to send messages to political mitment apart from leaders who can affect ratification. And we want children. We do not millions and millions of Petition signers to impress on weigh the consequences because we do not know what Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party that they they will be. We choose to prove our worth through will destroy the viability of the Party with those who our children because no other area of achievement is stand for women's rights unless they change their open to us. We are given more information about an position on ERA. appendix operation than we are about the hazards of Our campaign will help to drive home the message motherhood, and few women survive the struggle to delivered by women's votes in the 1980 election. find options, in art, music, science, politics, in a climate Women did in 1980 - and will again - vote their in- hostile to the dream as well as the reality. - Continued on page 5 - Continued on page 2 Send Me No Roses -- continued from page 1 will mourn for all mothers with varicose veins and broken hearts. I will mourn for all men and women Congress is about to make it even more impossible whose fragile hold on equality, and therefore "love" to say "yes" or "no" to childbearing. Effective birth will be broken as a result of "no choice" decisions by control has always been a sometime thing. Without government. I mourn for all women whose spirit dies the possibility of terminating an unwanted pregnancy, at the moment of conception. I mourn especially there will now be no recourse at all if the condom or because this need not be. diaphragm spring a leak. At last Freud will be right: biology will in all cases be destiny. Few great artists or musicians will emerge in a field narrowed by THE WAYWARD PRESS- Fundamentalist Division pregnancy or jail. I really don't mind so much that florists, candy­ The Moral Majority Report of 20 April, 1981 had, makers, Ame_rican Telephone and Telegraph, restaura­ among other oddities, the following comment by Tim teurs, the military and the clergy (it is a slow time after Lahaye in an article castigating the press: Easter) benefit from sentimental holidays. I do mind that we are called on to celebrate the romanticization "The photographer for the Washington Star at­ I and glorification of motherhood. tracted my attention because he took so many pictures. So this Mother's Day I think I will mourn instead What particularly interested me was the weird angle at of celebrate. I will mourn for all of us who were not which he took them. Standing in front of Phyllis told of the awesome demands of childrearing and Schlafly and my wife, Beverly, he held the camera down about the hazards of pregnancy. I will mourn for all by his waist and took about 25 shots from below them. who were told but who found a hostile climate where The next day's Star pictured those two attractive genuine efforts at becoming a "sufficient" parent were women in a most uncomplimentary pose that distorted thwarted at every turn. I will mourn for mothers who their natural features - which fit the tone of the try to do more than one job at a time. I will mourn reporting. for those who thought they could slip motherhood in By contrast, Eleanor Smeal, the national feminist while they ran General Motors. I will mourn for full­ leader of NOW was pictured in a highly favorable time mothers whose strain and competence remain article in a face-on, photographically touched up pose. unrelieved and unappreciated. I will mourn for mothers Why this obvious discrimination? Eleanor favors the inundated with advice and great expectations from the ERA and liberal humanist control of TV while Phyllis experts but little help from anyone with diapers and and Bev oppose the ERA and want TV cleaned up." feeding. I will mourn for Gold Star mothers who had no choice about what happened to their sons. I will mourn for mothers of sons who joined the resistance against the Viet Nam war and for those whose sons went. I will mourn for all of us who stayed reading Dr. Spock when we should have been stopping wars. I ROBERT SEIDENBERG, M.D., P.C . . will mourn for all of us who have daughters. We live Individual Psychotherapy in terror that our sins will be visited on them. I will mourn for poor mothers who are forced to work or go Suite 1604 on Welfare and are then judged inadequate no matter STATE TOWER BUILDING which choice they make. I will mourn for rich mothers SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 13202 who must turn their children over to caste and class. Telephone: (315) 471-6421 I will mourn for lesbian mothers who are threatened with loss of their children. I will mourn for all of us living under the sinister threat of a "Human Life Amendment" and papal encyclicals and for all who live in the 43 states which still permit rape in marriage. I

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-2- The Woman Rebel was published \·oL 1. ~lARCH 19J.l ~0. 1. by Margaret Sanger in 1914. THt:. NEW FEMINISTS worlrinr girl who alavea in the home several yean, the new movement ia w or the nurse girl who spends her daya Radl.T laelrinr in vitality, force, and and nighta in the care of the babies of That apologetic tone of the new conviction. · the femin.iata, were not dwelt upon. 0 American feminiata which plainly aaya The freedom which the new feminiata An.r movement "Kith fl'ar lurking in the background, fear of the press, of "Really, Madam Public Opinion, we expound can only be obtained through are all quite harmlea and pt>rfeetl.r a greater enslavement of the already public opinion, of our neighbors, or of M ~peelable" wu the kt-ynote of the enslaved workingwoman, and "where the enem.r, can not havt" that spirit flnt and aeeond masa meetings held at ala very ia there liberty cannot be." In­ which fearlesmesa of opposition brings. Cooper Cnion on the 17th and 20th atead of launching a movement for wG­ it ia not for rights women should uk, of February laat. man 'a freedom the impresaion gained all righta are here-rather ia it for .rou A to inculute into her the desire to get The ideas advanced were very old wu that the.r aimed to combat the and time-worn even to the ordinary eontentiona of the eon'l""entional anti­ theae rights. [ chu.reb-goi.Dc woman who reads the auffragiata. N Feminia~ Come out fro;n under magarinea and cornea in contact with To those who have been on the firinr thP tonr of morbid respectability and current thought. The "right to work," line for woman '• freedom for the put let 'a gl't a look at you ! the "right to ignore fashions," the "right to keep her own name," the A moveutent aceking to remodel so­ R "right to organize," the "right of the FC.MINISM cial life, to create another industrial mother to work''; all these sG-Called TERESA BILLINGTON GRl!liG revolution, to purge aes: relation.a of righta fail to arouse enthusiasm be­ barter and property, to aet up a new E cauae to-day they are all recognized by Such a movement a feminism, mG­ type of home and family relation, mn.at societ.r and there exut neither lawa mentoua and vital, will ever have to· necessarily ahake all established things, nor strong opposition to any of them. meet the onslaught of persiatent and creating con.acioua disturbance and dia­ 8 It ia evident the.r represent a middle unnumbered forcea. trcsa, where now habit blinds ua to the elasa woman 'a movemPnt; an echo, but The army of invested interests will existence of danger and nil. .... It a nry weak echo, of the English con­ be mused in opposition and with them must be prepared to meet opposition, E atitutional autrragists. Consideration the eatabliahed authorities, the conven­ from every quarten fleree outcry, bit­ of the working woman 'a freedom wu tions of aocial life and the prejudices ter antagoniam, and the ridicule and ignored. The problema which affect the l and misconception.a of the ignorant. •lander of fanaticism.

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-From the Philadelphia Bulletin, 4/23/81 -3- r

LET'S BE REALISTIC ABOUT ABORTION By jane Gil/iat Fry

For many of us, it's difficult to be pro-abortion. ists with dirty instruments, and they'll have the threat Abortion is an unpleasant surgical procedure. It's not of criminal prosecution hanging over their heads, to nice, for heaven's sake. And if it were not necessary in boot. our imperfect, under-educated society, I, for one, would Nor will outlawing abortion obviate the need for be opposed to it. The very idea makes me uneasy. abortion. That can only be done by the development But if the idea of abortion makes me uneasy, the of safe, reliable, easy-to-use contraceptives and by ex­ idea of prohibiting it by the proposed Helms-Hyde cellent sex education - the kind of sex education that legislation, or, worse yet, by a Constitutional amend­ emphasizes responsible human relations and preparation ment makes me furious. legislation passed for the for parenthood. purpose of forcing a sectarian religious opinion on all Much as anyone might wish it, an anti-abortion of us is an abridgment of the First Amendment. Forc­ amendment or law will not turn us into a nation of ing women to bear children against their will is an happy families. It will not make young maidens chaste abridgment of the Fourteenth. Clearly, this is serious or young gentlemen gallant. It will not, in short, elimi­ business. nate teenage or other premarital sex. It will not turn a The people who are trying to outlaw abortion are male high school dropout into a loving father with a basing their objections to it not on a moral consensus good job, or his young girl friend into a wise and happy (as they would like us to believe), but on a religious mother. More likely, it will turn her into a dead young opinion, which, in this case, happens to be a minority girl. Even now, the suicide rate among pregnant teen­ religious opinion. For, while the Roman Catholic agers is ten times the national average. Church, the Mormons, and some fundamentalist de­ Moreover, wisdom (and good contraceptive practice) nominations are theologically opposed to abortion, do not necessarily come with age and marriage. Out­ groups equally respectable, including the Baptists, lawing abortion will not prevent a macho husband Episcopalians, Conservative and Reform Jews, and from claiming his "conjugal rights", nor give his wife Methodists, are not. They consider abortion to be a self-control (or control over him). matter for personal choice. It will not improve the health of a woman already Somehow, the anti-abortion forces have convinced exhausted from childbearing and child-rearing. And it many people that abortion has always been outside will not help an already hard-pressed father of four to moral and civil law. This is not the case. Abortion was become a financially successful father of five or six. practiced in ancient Greece and Rome, and in Europe Abortion is not a pleasant idea, and I've never for centuries thereafter. Indeed, it was not until the heard anyone suggest tharany woman should have an mid-nineteenth century that abortion was prohibited abortion against her will. But the alternatives to per­ in England and the United States. TheCatholicChurch mitting safe abortion are not only less pleasant; in prohibited it in 1859. many cases they are tragic. The choice must be left Interestingly, the real triumph of the anti-abortion to the woman concerned. She must not be coerced forces came when Nazi Germany, under Hitler, made it into motherhood by a law or amendment dictated to a capital crime under some circumstances. all women by a group of celibate clergy and misogyn­ The current anti-abortion forces describe themselves ous politicians speaking from a literally impregnable as "pro-life". Is that what they are? Certainly not, if position. the quality of life enters in. What theyare, indisputably, is pro-fetus. Pro-forced motherhood. By extension, The tombstone of Matilda Joslyn Gage, they are pro-poverty, pro-overpopulation, pro-despera­ one of the foremost suffragists of her day, tion, and pro-suicide. It is not far-fetched even to call and a resident of Fayetteville, bears the them pro-rapist. For while a rapist, if convicted, may following inscription: "There is a word sweeter be sent to prison, it is his victim who gets the lifetime than mother, home, or heaven. That word is sentence. It is she who is forced to endure a pregnancy liberty." caused by a repellent act. It is she who must give birth This seems a particularly fitting thought to an unwanted child and somehow provide for its for this Mother's Day. support. The emotional damage to her and her child is incalculable. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY But most people who are opposed to abortion are The Women's Writer's Center, Inc., Williams Hall, not consciously "pro" any of these deplorable results Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York 13035, is of making abortion a federal crime. They are genuinely looking for someone with initiative and skills to begin concerned about the ills of society, and particularly, as a Part-Time Administrative Assistant and develop the seemingly precarious state of the family. They into a full-time administrator. Responsibilities include: think (or hope) that if we pass an anti-abortion amend­ Coordination of office staff; organizational work with ment, we will achieve an idyllic, family-oriented faculty and administration; liaison with other educa­ society, with responsible, loving parents, healthy, happy tional institutions; coordination of Visiting Writers children, and, with luck, at least one set of grandparents Series; participation in the growth and development just down the street. of the institution. Will outlawing abortion accomplish this? Of course If you are dedicated and determined, eager for not. In the first place, it won't even eliminate abortion! exciting work with a good deal of responsibility, and For most women, it will simply eliminatesafe abortion. interested in a position that will grow in relationship They will again be the victims of back-alley abortion- to your work, send a resume by May 14,1981. -4 - From the President- continued from page 1 terests. The voting difference between women and men for Ronald Reagan was at least eight percent. In New York State a closer election that difference can and will determine the outcome. Gay/Lesbian President Reagan, the national Republican Party which opposes the ERA, and the Republican state leg­ islators in unratified states must receive the clear Conference message that continued opposition to our rights will Saturday May 9 literally cost them their jobs. Statewide We are not fooling ourselves. We will never change Workshops Meeting the minds of the dogmatic idealogues who will cling to 11am-5:30prn (free) their oppression of women despite its political cost. But we can and will reinforce the message of the 1980 Wine & Cheese, Dinner May Memorial r 5:30-8pm (S5°0) elections to those politicians whose current opposition to the ERA will not withstand the political reality that Unitarian Society women are a political force that can be the margin of MADELINE 3800 E. Genesee St. difference between victory and defeat. DAVIS in Concert · Syracuse The Message Brigade/Petition Campaign is a powe~­ 8:30pm (S3 00 Non-Members, ful organizing tool for equal rights. Every name, as 1t Freeto·Members) · is received, will be put in National NOW's computer so as to be instantly available for the Messages we must FORCOMPLETESCH~DULEAND MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION send to those who will determine whether equality and WRITE OR PHONE justice for women will prevail in this .coun~ry. . THESTATE~ONFERENCE Every recruit for the Message Bngade IS a potential P.O. BOX 92 recruit for our army of activists which will help to SYRACUSE, N.Y. 13201 change the climate of this country. We will make (315) 475-6866 ~ women aware that we are being used as cheap labor, 8:00AM- 5:00PM, Mondijy- Friday whether in the home, where as housewives we have no economic rights of our own, or the market place, where we get 59 cents for every dollar men get; that we are constantly put down as public policy makers, Bad News and that as we grow older we are too often discarded Senator Donovan (State- Senate) has introduced with no adequate resources to live a meaningful life, legislation to amend the state aid part of the budget in much less to stay alive. order to delete funds for Medicaid abortions. • Greater Syracuse NOW is about to launch itself into this campaign - but we need your help. Many The crisis surrounding proposed legislation to ban of you have been asking what you could do, how abortions and even some forms of birth control is very you could work on ratification. We need every one much with us. It is impossible to emphasize strongly of you, for whatever amount of time and e~ergy you enough how important it is for us all to marshall our have to make this effort succeed. Please fill out the resources to defeat these "Human Life Amendments". coupon below and return it to me, Rowena Chaiton If you missed seeing your legislator during the Easter Malamud at 385 West Onondaga Street. Without recess, write, wire, call now. All versions of a Human the dedi~ation and commitment of all of us, we will Life Amendment are absolutely unacceptable. Con­ face July 1, 1982 with the monumental task ahead of gressman Wortley writes: "I do not favor abortion as us of starting all over again from the beginning, and in a means of birth control. However, I am not yet con­ a more hostile climate than before. If we fail, our vinced that it would be in the best interest of our grandchildren may still be trying to insure equal country to amend the Constitution to prohibit abor­ rights for all well into the next century. tions." Write Wortley NOW.

NAME ______The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Robert Runcie, reiterated his opposition to the ordina­ ADDRESS.______tion of women to the priesthood, feeling it would "in­ terrupt progress toward unity with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches." He also opposes abortion, CITY______ST ATE. ___ZIP ___ __ although he recognizes that "You might have to choose an abortion where you have to choose between two PHONE______evils!" I will help with: N.Y. Times, 29 April, 1981. D staffing tables or booths in malls, colleges, fairs, etc. (Ed. Note: The Archbishop's willingness to sacrifice D door to door canvassing women to ecumenical relations sickens me. I have no­ 0 coordination, keeping track of supplies, sending thing to say, so hurt and stunned am I at his efforts to materials on to national, etc. close ranks with the "good old boys" of ecclesiastical D Other (Please specify area) authority. If, however, you still have voice, please write to him at Lambeth Palace, London SE 1 7 J U.) ·-5- J

If any other country in the world denied 1!2 its population - equal rights under the law the United States would be the first · to speak out. But in more than 200 years of democracy, the United States has been silent about the basic rights of women!

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Good News Dr. Theda R. Skocpol, Associate Professor of Three Republican Senators and 17 Members of the Sociology at Harvard, has won the right to have her House have proposed legislation which would improve tenure application reviewed. This is Harvard's first the rights of women in the areas of insurance, inheri­ faculty sex discrimination case. tance, child care and military service. N.Y. Times, 16 April, 1981 N.Y. Times, 8 April, 1981 The Explorers' Club in New York, which stresses The odious effort by Hyde and Helms to initiate adventure, has voted to admit women as members. legislation which would ban abortion has been de­ N.Y. Times, 13 April, 1981 nounced as unconstitutional by eleven constitutional Seminaries in the United States and Canada now scholars. N. Y. Times , 22 April 1981 enrol more than three times the number of women they did in 1972. J. Clay Smith, Acting Commissioner of the Equal "Second Century" Radcliffe News, April 1981 Employment Opportunity Commission, testified before a Senate Labor Subcommittee that sexual In Cincinnati, Ohio, a Federal Appeals Court ruled harassment in the work place "is a real problem". that girls could not be barred from competing on boys At the same hearing, Phyllis Schlafly was quoted as teams in contact sports. saying, "The most cruel and damaging sexual harass­ N.Y. Times, 29 April, 1981 ment taking place today is the harassment by feminists and their federal government allies against the role of Young Catholics differ with the Pope: 90% reject motherhood and the role of dependent wife!' the Church ban on birth control. N.Y. Times, 22 April, 1981 Herald journal, 22 April, 1981

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Address______· ------Ci ty, State, Zip Code______PHONE: Home______Work ______Best Time______-7- The fin al planning meeting for Lillian Reiner Day will be held on Monday, May 11, at 7:30, at the home NOTICES of Karen DeCrow, 116 Benedict Avenue.

Come to the gala celebration of Lillian Reiner's Fayetteville's first woman voter, Matilda Joslyn 80th birthday, to be held on Saturday, May 16, from Gage, led 102 women to the voting booth for the 5 to 8PM at the Syracuse Area Landmark Theatre. school election of 1880. Now, 101 years later, a film There will be music, laughter, and fun, and an oppor­ about her, using her own words as narration, has been tunity to share in the affection we all feel for our produced by the South Dakota Committee on the Lillian. Ticket information available at the Printers Humanities. It outlines her life in Fayetteville and her Devil, 475-6857. career as a nationally known leader in the campaign for Doris Chertow will be a guest at a Pool-side brunch woman's suffrage. "An Evening with Matilda Joslyn at 1331 Broad Street, in Syracuse, on Sunday, June 7, Gage" will be shown for the first time in the East at from 11 :30AM - 2 PM. For more information, call the Fayetteville Elementary School, Fayetteville­ 446-1067 or 446-4547. Manlius Road (Rt. 257) on Thursday evening, May 7, at 7:30PM. The Town of Manlius is providing for the The NOW New York State State Conference will acquisition of the film and several local organizations be held May 15 - 17 at the Holiday Inn Holidome, are cooperating in sponsoring this event. Suffern, New York. For more information contact Claire: (914) 638-1761. A women's group is forming to discuss concerns STATE POLICE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION about Sexuality. The aim of the group is feeling good about yourself and your sexuality. The group is New York State Trooper Robert Marquart writes tentatively set to meet evenings, most likely 2 hours to us that State Trooper Examinations will take place once a week for a minimum of 8 weeks and needs 5 to on Saturday, June 27, 1981. Applications, which must 8 women to begin. For more information, call Alison be received no later than June 1, 1981, may be obtained Deming at 637-8990. at the recruitment office, 671 Gifford Street, or at any State Police installation. The Recruitment Office Sarah Auchincloss and Marjorie Banks will be number is 4 75-8556 or 475-0155. Trooper Marquart honored at the ECOH Community Service Awards is especially interested in recruiting women. Dinner on Wednesday, May 13 at 6:30PM at the Euclid Community Open House. Sarah, a member of NOW, is MORE GOOD NEWS presently trying to raise the $400,000 needed for an addition to the Planned Parenthood building. Marjorie, a retired Social Worker, works on world disarmament In Hartford, Conn., Governor William A. O'Neill through the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Coordinating signed a bill which will allow married p,ersons or Committee of Central New York and the American "cohabitors" to charge each other with rape. Friends Service Committee. The evening will include N.Y. Times, 7 April, 1981 piano music by Ray Gantter, a gourmet dinner, ex­ (Ed. Note: In a chapter on the Woman's Franchise cerpts from "Jesus Christ Superstar" and the awards League in the Suffragette Movement by Estelle presentation. Reservations can be made by sending a Pankhurst, The Law Times of 1891 reviewed the Jack­ check for $12.50 - payable to ECOH - to Lucille son Case, titling it "The Married Woman's Charter of Smith, c/o ECOH, 826 Euclid Avenue, Syracuse, N.Y. Personal Liberty." It was decided that a husband 13210. Proceeds will benefit the Euclid Community "might not imprison his wife to enforce his conjugal Open House. rights.")

GREATER SYRACUSE CHAPTER BULK RATE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE FOR WOMEN PAID I 385 West Onondaga Street j Syracuse,N.Y. Editor ...... Betty Bone Schiess Syracuse, N.Y. 13202 j 1 07 Bradford Lane Permit No. 1111 i Syracuse, N.Y. 13224 Phone: (315)446-2754

GREATER SYRACUSE CHAPTER NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN 1009 Cumberland Avenue Kathleen Oser Syracuse, N.Y. 13210 1055 South St. (315) 472-2406 Clinton, NY 13323 President ...... Rowena Chaiton Malamud Vice-President ...... Ann Tierney Treasurer ...... Lillian Reiner Secretary ...... Joel Rinne ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED