Two French films that came out within a few weeks of one another on the legalisation of abortion in 1975, following the MLAC activism in the previous years, the lawyer Gisèle Halimi‘s court pleadings, and Giscard’s underlying (and relatively) progressive presidency, which left Simone Veil endure the nasty flak of an exclusively male French Assembly. (Note: I have not watched either of the movies!)
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Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags 1975, abortion rights, Annie Colère, contraception, French cinema, French politics, Gisèle Halimi, legalisation of abortion, loi Veil, MLAC, Mouvement pour la liberté de l’avortement et de la contraception, Planning Familial, reproductive rights, Simone Veil, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing on December 24, 2022 by xi'anYoung Americans
Posted in Travel with tags 1975, David Bowie, David Robert Jones, France Inter, LP, soul, Young Americans on May 25, 2019 by xi'an
I heard this song from David Bowie’s 1975 album on the [national public] radio the other day and it reminded me this was one of the first LPs I bought… and played till it was no longer audible.