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Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom
Rebecca Grant(Author)
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Published on 24. June 2025
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Hardback
480 pages
978-1-6680-5324-9 (ISBN)
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"Grant charts the reproductive freedom movement from the days before Roe through the seismic impact of Dobbs. The stories [here] span four continents, tracing strategies across generations and borders. Grant centers those activists who have been engaged in direct action to help people get the abortions they need. Their efforts involve no small measure of daring-do, spy craft, sea adventures, close calls, undercover operations, smuggling, sequins, legal dramas, victories, defeats, and above all, a deeply held conviction that all the risks are worth it for the cause. ... We meet a cast of brave, bold, and unforgettable women: the founders of the Jane Collective, a group of anonymous providers working clandestinely between Chicago apartments to perform abortions in the pre-Roe years; the originators and leaders of the abortion fund movement; Verâonica Cruz Sâanchez, a Mexican activist who works to support self-managed abortion with pills and fights to free women targeted by the criminalization of abortion; and Rebecca Gomperts, a Dutch doctor who realizes that there is one place abortion bans cannot reach: international waters"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
632 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6680-5324-9 (9781668053249)
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