Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973 (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

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Focusing on one Massachusetts community, David Cline uses the personal stories of those who sought abortions and of birth regulate and the health care professionals, clergy members, and feminist activists who helped them to reexamine the contentious history of reproductive rights in The usa in the last thirty years. His work brings together interviews with numerous individuals–college chaplain moved to activism after one of his students died from a botched backalley abortion and some other hung herself as a result of an unwanted pregnancy; members of women’s collectives who ferried women to abortion clinics across state lines in one of those up to date Underground Railroad; a waitress who performed over 1,500 illegal abortions in her bathtub; and the women themselves who risked their lives. This fascinating collection is a much-needed contribution to latest scholarship on the reproductive rights movement in addition to being the most important new work of community oral history.
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