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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 23. 23rd September 1973

Right On Sisters?

Right On Sisters?

Sir,

When I see other activities of the feminists associated with equal pay and the elimination of discriminatory sexist practices from our society I am with them and join in that perhaps passe saying: Right On Sisters!

But the stance taken on that euphemistically phrased issue "A Woman's Right to Choose" — puzzles me in the light of the struggle for liberation outlined by Kate Millet in "Sexual Politics". Then, women were fighting for a right signaling their positions as autonomous individuals able to stand alone as citizens. It is ironic that the very group claiming links with the courageous past should now, in the name of freedom, become an instrument of oppression of the rights of another minority group -unable to speak for itself — the unborn.

The movement would probably go a long way toward a more representative view of women kind and thereby improve its public relations if it would concentrate on other pernicious obstacles to women's fight for freedom. For example: the greater provision of more challenging jobs for women, counter-advertising in the mass media to combat exploitation, and the education of women to a much wider view of their role in society.

Joanne Cunningham.