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  I have a long history with the morning after pill. In 1990, I was co-leading the University of Florida Campus National Organization for Women chapter when we got word of a campus pharmacist refusing to dispense the morning after…

The groundbreaking Redstockings 1969 Abortion speakout included stories of women who had obtained a legal abortion (also referred to as a therapeutic abortion) by declaring insanity. This required finding two psychiatrists to certify you as insane, and then presenting your…

All of a sudden there were a whole bunch of women telling the truth about abortion. Finally! Finally! We were saying yeah, we did it, we had it, and we want our rights. We want to have legal free abortion.”…

“You are the rudest bunch of people I have ever met.” –NY State Senator Seymour Thaler, to women’s liberation protesters. On February 13, 1969, four years before the Roe vs. Wade decision, women who would later go on to found…

“Even the most mundane, establishment-oriented law schools routinely teach that important legal cases lag far behind the social movements that create them…Supreme Court cases bob along behind social reality like little rowboats towed behind huge gun-ships. Thus, when we celebrate…

by Jenny Brown   For the first time since the dawn of the capitalist system, most of humanity is experiencing below-replacement birth rates, and some countries, such as Japan and Korea, are starting to see declining populations as a result. …