 This section of the on-line archive contains the Chicago Maternity Center struggle, pregnancy testing, the fight against sterilization abuse, abortion rights, sexism in the medical field and more.
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(2002)
Former CWLU health activist Jenny Knauss was Executive Director
of the Caucus from 1983-2002, working tirelessly on behalf of
Illinois young people. The Caucus is a good example of the kind
of grassroots health organization that CWLU health activists
had advocated.
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Read more... [The Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health: A History]
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(1986) Jenny Knauss donated her personal
files of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) and feminist health-related
material to the McCormick Library at Northwestern University in 1986.
You may browse through an inventory of the 9 boxes of documents. The
inventory is in Adobe Acrobat format. You may obtain the free Acrobat
Reader HERE.
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( Late 1970's)
An excellent introduction to the women's health movement in Chicago
from 1969-1975.
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Read more... [A View from the Loop]
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by the Committee for Puerto
Rican Decolonization (undated-but probably late 1970's) An expose of
the
reproductive policies pursued by the Puerto Rican authorities in collusion
with the US government and US corporations.
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Read more... [35% of Puerto Rican Women Sterilized]
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by The Chicago Committee
to End Sterlization Abuse (January 1977) A working paper written to
mobilize the women's movement to demand an end to forced sterlization.
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Read more... [Sterlization Abuse: A Task for the Women's Movement]
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by Jenny Knauss, Janet M., Kathy M., Lauren
C. & Sharon M.(circa 1976) A proposal to launch an ambitious
CWLU healthcare organizing project.
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Read more... [Medical Crimes Against Women]
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(1975) Outlines the program of the Committee
to End Sterilization Abuse (CESA).
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Read more... [CESA Statement of Purpose]
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by Dr. Helen Rodriquez-Trias (1974) Dr. Rodriquez-Trias was a leader
in the public health field and a founder of the movement against sterilization
abuse. Her ideas helped to guide CWLU healthcare strategy.
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Read more... [A Young Woman's Death: Would Healthcare Rights Have Prevented It?]
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(1973) Women in Chicago still faced problems even after Roe v. Wade effectively
legalized abortion in 1973.
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Read more... [Abortions are Legal, But...]
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(1973) The Abortion Task
Force challenged the City's new regulations in the wake of Roe v. Wade.
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Read more... [ATF Fights Board of Health Regulations]
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(1973) The Abortion Task Force
was organized to ensure that abortions were safe and affordable in the
wake of the Roe v. Wade decision.
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Read more... [Abortion Task Force: Who We Are]
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(1973) The Chicago Women's Liberation
Union's health programs were some of its best known and successful projects.
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Read more... [CWLU Expands Health Program]
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(1972) An understanding
of the politics of biology was essential to women's liberation.
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Read more... [The Fear of Childbirth is a PAIN]
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(1972) Rape became a major feminist issue and anti-rape
programs sprang up across the country.
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Read more... [Rape]
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(1972) WATCH- Women Act To Control Healthcare,
led a campaign to try to save the Chicago Maternity Center which offered
safe home birth services to Chicago's impoverished west side. These
were their demands.
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Read more... [WATCH Demands]
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by WATCH (1972) WATCH- Women
Act To Control Healthcare, led a campaign to try to save the Chicago
Maternity Center which offered safe home birth services to Chicago's
impoverished west side.
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Read more... [Save the Chicago Maternity Center]
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by Pat (1972) A woman describes having
her baby at home with the help of the Chicago Maternity Center, the
legendary home birthing center formerly located on Chicago's Westside.
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Read more... [Having a Baby My Way]
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by
Alice (1972) An article from Womankind which traces the history
of the Chicago Maternity Center, a unique home birth clinic on Chicago's
Westside threatened with closing by powerful financial interests.
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Read more... [The Chicago Maternity Center: 77 Years of home deliveries]
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by Laura Green (1971) Women faced deepseated
and often outrageous discrimination both as patients and as healthcare
providers.
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Read more... [Woman as Patient]
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(1971) A leaflet distributed by the
CWLU to bring attention to the problem of sterilization abuse.
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Read more... [The Politics of Sterilization]
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(circa 1970-71) A statement
from the CWLU calling for an end to restrictive abortion laws, and the
reform of our entire healthcare system.
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Read more... [Free Abortion is Every Woman's Right]
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(undated: probably 1970)
A bold radical paper that exposed racism in America's
health
system.
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Read more... [End Racism in the Healthcare System]
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Visit this section of our website to learn more about the CWLU's Abortion Counseling Service, better known by its nickname "Jane".
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Read more... [Jane Special Feature]
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