This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters at patreon.com and by Verso Books which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is, without apology, The Abortion Struggle Now, by Jenny Brown. With an anti-abortion the 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

60s, really when 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 their 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 the key demands in the struggle for

women's freedom.

Without apology, the abortion struggle now by Jenny Brown. Out now fromerso Books.

Out now from Verso Books.

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