Forum Newsfront
April, 1972
"Women's Lib Marches On"Providence, Rhode Island--The Rhode Island supreme court has ruled that neither the state nor the Federal Constitution gives men the right to beat their wives. Appealing a lower court's adverse ruling on his divorce petition, a Cranston, Rhode Island, lawyer insisted that clobbering his wife was "in accord with his fundamental right to chastise her" and that, anyhow, she also had slugged him--three times. He argued, "Marriage is not a partnership....
