The Fight for Equality: Then, Now, and Tomorrow

The election of 2024 is behind us.  Whether your candidates won or not, the world

continues to turn and is forever changed. Or is it?  I’m sure you’re heard the saying, “The more

 things change, the more they stay the same.”  Remember Delia Nolan?  As a teenager, she

and her grandmother Mary Nolan did their part in pressuring the President and congress to

allow women to vote. 

Delia’s friend Frances Dove, a nurse who had been on the battle fields of France,

decided to become involved in Margaret Sanger’s crusade to teach women about birth

control and how to care for their own bodies. After many legal battles, women thought it had

been determined that they could make their own decisions concerning birth control. But, it was

not to be - for now.

Perhaps someday a book will be written about how Delia’s great-granddaughter, as a

congresswoman, was instrumental in passing a law that gives women the right to make

decisions concerning their own reproductive health.  And so the struggle continues.

- Mary Nolan Brown -