THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen: Many of us are familiar with the The Jane Collective, an underground group of radical feminist activists in Chicago from 1969 to 1973, secretly providing safe and affordable abortions when abortion was illegal in most of the US. But few people know about the radical feminists in Oakland in the 1970’s thru the 1990’s who were also practicing this kind of self help reproductive care, teaching women and providing low cost abortions and reproductive healthcare to women who couldn’t afford it, fueled by the belief that community based solutions rather than reliance on the state was what was necessary to protect women’s reproductive health.
Kate Raphael talks to Angela Hume about her 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. Hear about how important this movement is to our understanding now – when we once again have to create an underground movement to ensure reproductive health care.
Wednesdays at 7 on KPFK 90.7FM and kpfk.org
Podcast on Spotify & Apple
Posted by admin in 
