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by Linnea Johnson
Over
the years, I have become convinced that patriarchal capitalism is
a system women cannot revise any more than we can "reform"
water so that we might breathe it. As long as the law is male, women
must be outlaws. I became an outlaw when I joined "Jane,"
a group of women in Chicago who, between 1969 and 1973, did more
than 11,000 abortions.
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Read more... [Something Real: Jane and Me. Memories and Exhortations of a Feminist Ex-Abortionist]
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by Judith Arcana (Editor's Note:
Judith Arcana is a writer whose poems, stories and essays appear often in journals and anthologies. Her newest book is What if your mother? See Judith’s profile at womenarts.org; for readings/talks, contact
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Read more... [Writings on Abortion]
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by Jeanne Galatzer-Levy
"I was really adrift, but I wanted to do something, and
it seemed to me that if you were going pick something in terms
of women and politics the front lines was abortion because women
were dying and that was real."
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Read more... [On the Job with Jane]
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