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Reproductive Freedom Series (Free Downloadable PDF)

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A short while ago, Hard Crackers sent an invitation to people who we knew had been active in various reproductive freedom projects over the last fifty years to help us think through the issues and challenges ...

Roe Overturned

Miriam Pickens

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no mas, no more babysitting in the doctor’s house waiting for infection to clear before the d & c, the abortion. When I woke the nurse say, You punched him, you punched the doctor. After a ...

Abortion Struggles Beyond Voting: Women’s Liberation, Reproductive Care, and Dual Power

Spencer Beswick

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At recent pro-choice demonstrations, we have been told that the only way to protect abortion is to vote for Democrats in November. Yet the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade under a Democratic president, house, and ...

Demand What You Really Want! An Interview with Jenny Brown

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Jenny Brown is an organizer with the feminist group National Women’s Liberation. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to make morning-after pill contraception available over the counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the ...

Breaking the Law Does Not Always Have to Be Scary

Camille Rudney

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Camille Rudney is an activist and a clinical social worker based in Richmond, Virginia. They became involved in abortion struggles after being arrested in 2012 for protesting Virginia’s restrictive abortion bill that required women seeking abortions ...

ek-ˈtä-pik

Norah Booth

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It’s 1976. I am 26 and have been experiencing light vaginal bleeding off and on for several weeks. I am married, but getting a divorce. I have no children. I am using the low dose of “The ...

We Were Keeping the Clinic Doors Open With Our Bodies: Interview with Sunny Chapman

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Sunny Chapman is a longtime activist and artist. In the 1980s and 1990s she participated in abortion clinic defense struggles by escorting women to clinics and videotaping the activities of anti-abortion activists. In this interview, she ...

Redstockings Abortion Speak Out

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This is the fourth post in the Hard Crackers Reproductive Freedom Series.  The post is an edited transcript of remarks made by women who spoke at the first Abortion Speak Out on March 21, 1969 in ...

Clinic Defense in the Era of Operation Rescue

Suzy Subways

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In the early ’90s, anarchists and other feminists defended clinics with our bodies and taught each other how to do abortion techniques such as menstrual extraction safely. As the Christian Right bombed hundreds of clinics, killed ...

Who Are the Experts? An archival glimpse at 1969 abortion rights actions

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This is the second posting in Reproductive Freedom: A Series, launched earlier this week by Hard Crackers. In this post, we share a collection of historical materials from the Redstockings Archives for Action. Redstockings was an ...
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