Because this is not a medical instrument.
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5 comments:
one of MANY good reasons.
Absolutely agree!!
Right on sister!
I was starting to worry, it's nice to find you here again!
In my early teens I watched an old movie and a few days later I ran across the original book in the library. Something Hollywood left out of the movie of course, was when the narrator, a farm wife, spoke of taking a neighbor woman to someone to have a buttonhook used as a medical instrument. (Recalling across 40 years I can't remember exactly how it was written, but am going to go back and re-read it someday.)
I asked my Mom how that could possibly work, and she told me I must have misunderstood something, that that just wasn't possible.
(She was always good at denying the existence of things, they were always my misunderstanding...)
So a few days later I asked her Mom, my Grandmother if she had ever seen a buttonhook and she said yes, that she grew up watching her Mom use one. Then she asked why I wanted to know and I told her what I had read.
She proceeded to explain that not only were buttonhooks used, but coat hangers as well, along with a lot of home brew "remedies". She said that she had seen too many girls and too many women that she worked with in the WW2 aircraft factory she and her sister worked in "ruined" by buttonhooks and people who had no business trying to do the things they were attempting to ever see anyone have to do that again!
She never said that anyone she knew had died, but it was implied by the tears and the fire in her eyes!
Pro-choice and proud of it...
alan
Especially true when right-wing judicual activists are dedicated to outlawing choice and returning to the days of wire & worse. The coathanger has become not only a symbol of back-alley abortions, but a symbol of the desperate times we face as freedomes become nostalgic memories.
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