Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known as menstrual extraction, which can end a pregnancy, using equipment easily bought and assembled at home. This “self-help” movement grew into a robust national and international collaboration of activists determined to ensure access to reproductive healthcare, including abortion, at all costs—to the point of learning how to do the necessary steps themselves.
Our guest today is Angela Hume, a feminist historian, author, literary critic, and poet, discussing her latest book that tells the history of the Bay Area’s leadership in the “self-help” abortion access movement. The book is called Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open.
FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open – It’s the story of the radical feminist networks who worked outside the law to defend abortion. Deep Care follows generations of activists and health workers of the Women’s Choice Clinic in Oakland from the early 1970s until 2010, as they worked underground and above ground,—despite the law, when required.Angela Hume reveals this critical, under-recognized story of the radical edge of the abortion movement
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