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

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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