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One that you might like is, without apology, the abortion struggle now by Jenny Brown, with an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court

and several states attempting to outlaw abortion altogether, many activists

are on the defensive hoping to hold on to reproductive rights in a few places and cases.

This spirited book shows how feminism can start winning again.

Jenny Brown uncovers a century of legal abortion in the United States

until 1873, recalls women's experiences in the illegal days,

and shows how the women's liberation movement of the 1960s

really won abortion rights.

She draws inspiration and lessons from the radicals of the Red Stockings, the Army of Three, and the Jane Collective, putting together a roadmap for today's organizers from the black feminist argument for reproductive justice,

the successful fight to make the morning after pill available over the counter,

and the recent mass movement to repeal Ireland's abortion ban.

Brown argues that politically conservative nonprofits have been setting the agenda,

emphasizing rare tragic cases, and relying on the rhetoric of choice and privacy.

Instead, it is time to return to the fundamental ideas that won legal abortion in the first place.

Women publicly telling the full truth of their own experience, demanding repeal of all abortion

restrictions, and showing how abortion and birth control are key

demands in the struggle for women's liberation.

Without apology, the abortion struggle now, by Jenny Brown, out podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Ain Rand. I've never read more than a few sentences of a single text that she wrote.

Yet her work and personality have come to define the politics and economics and even more so the mood of the world we live in today.

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