Radical Feminist’s Organize for Deep Care of self Reproductive Health w author Angela Hume

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Many of us are familiar with the The Jane Collective or Jane, an underground group of radical feminist activists in Chicago who were part of the the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union that operated from 1969 to 1973 secretly providing safe and affordable abortions to women when abortion was illegal in most of the United States. But few people including myself knew that there were radical feminists right here in Oakland in the 1970’s thru the 1990’s who were also practicing this kind of self help reproductive care and who were teaching women how to help to do their self care and were providing low costs abortions and reproductive healthcare to women who couldn’t afford healthcare fueled by the belief that community based solutions rather than reliance on the state was what was necessary to protect women’s reproductive health. Today Kate Raphael talks to Angela Hume who just released a new book about this radical feminist self care movement in the Bay Area called Deep care The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open and she talks about how important this movement is to understand for today when women once again have to create an underground movement to ensure women’s reproductive health care.

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