The decision means that for the first time in California women have the right to choose for themselves whether to have an abortion - a real victory for women.
However, the court left standing in the law certain restrictions, whose removal will require further efforts by the abortion rights movement. These restrictions include a 20-week time limit and the requirement that an abortion be performed in an accredited hospital by a licensed doctor.
Because parts of the law were ruled unconstitutional on the grounds of vagueness, it is possible that antiabortion forces will try to introduce a new restrictive bill into the California legislature - a bill that would be less vague but would add restrictions to the law. The recent Gallup poll shows that the public favors legal abortion by 64 percent nationally with a figure of 73 percent in the West.
December 8, 1947
TOLEDO, Nov. 26 - A four-day strike has brought a smashing
victory AFL dairy workers here. The final settlement provides
for wage adjustments based upon a cost-of -living index to be
made every three months. In addition to a 15c an hour increase
effective immediately.
The brief strike was marked by an attempt by the dairy owners to create a critical situation on a city wide basis. Only the workers in one dairy actually went on strike.
The other six Toledo dairies thereupon immediately locked out their workers thereby creating a serious milk shortage. Undoubtedly they hoped to provoke a crisis and invite the Taft- Hartley NLRB into the picture.
However, the employer-created shortage of milk, the usual crocodile tears of public officials weeping over the poor kids and so on, had no effect on the strikers. They rejected successive company offers of 5c, 6 1/2c, 7 1/2c, and 12 1/2c and finally won 15c plus the important cost-of-living adjustment provision.