Stockton to Malone: Underground Abortion Before Roe v. Wade

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🗓️ 10 February 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Welcome to the first episode of Stockton to Malone, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. For the first episode, ahead of protests and counterprotests at Planned Parenthood clinics around the country and forthcoming attacks on abortion rights under President Donald Trump, hosts RL Stephens and Micah Uetricht interview Judy Wittner. Before Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion was illegal throughout most of the country. In 1969, Wittner, who was involved in the feminist movement in Chicago, discovered she was pregnant and wanted an abortion. She sought out assistance from doctors around the Chicago area but was turned away. Eventually, she turned to an illegal feminist abortion service, the Jane Collective, and ended up receiving an abortion on her kitchen table in Evanston, Illinois. We sat down with Judy in that same kitchen to talk with her about that experience and the state of reproductive rights today.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome. My name is Micah Utrix. And I am R. L. Stevens.
0:10.0	And this is the first episode of Stockton to Malone, a new podcast from Jacobin magazine.
0:16.6	We're coming to you from Chicago, Illinois.
0:19.2	And later on in this episode you are going to hear our interview with Judy Wittner who tells her story of having an illegal abortion on her kitchen table in 1969 before Roe v. Wade.
0:32.0	And we are launching this thing, a show that is going to be coming to you regularly talking about all kinds of stuff.
0:40.0	Doing interviews with folks on the left, folks who aren't on the left,
0:46.0	covering topics ranging from what labor to feminism,
0:51.0	to hold that, hold that, Hold on, Donald Trump's Twitter account.
0:57.0	Then also Jaden Smith's Twitter account.
1:02.0	We promised to bring you that hard-hitting... Twitter account.
1:02.6	We promised to bring you that hard-hitting Marxist analysis of Jayton Smith
1:07.1	that you need.
1:08.6	Everybody's been bringing you that idealism in their analysis of Jaden-Smith.
1:13.8	We have ready to use of materialist analysis of Jaden-Smith.
1:17.4	Of Jaden-Smith.
1:18.3	Have you seen this new video?
1:20.1	All right, anyway.
1:22.0	We're also going to talk with my mom.
1:24.0	I think that's the whole reason you want to start this podcast.
1:26.1	Is this you can interview your mom?
1:27.2	Yeah, I said, yo, moms, I'm going to make you a star. The whole left is going to know your name.
1:35.0	So that's a little bit about what we're going to be bringing you on the show.
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