Sterilization (Birth control).
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Teach-in on reproductive rights / produced by Clare Spark (Part 2 of 3)
In May 1981, a large group of women gathered at KPFK. They discussed their personal abortion experiences, including those when it was illegal; the current and past legislation; the Right to Life movement; sterilization abuse; the sexual revolution; and generally the right to have children when we want them. The article read by Debbie Freeman…
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Teach-in on reproductive rights / produced by Clare Spark (Part 3 of 3)
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Velvet Sledgehammer: March 28, 1984[?]
Production reel for the March 28 (1984?) episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. Contains a women’s news segment, “Hot Flashes” with Karen Barrett of Majority Report. Next is a women’s health update with Eileen Zalisk. She interviews Ann Teicher, co-chair of the Coalition for the International Day of Action and Karen Stamm of the Committee to…
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Speakout for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse / produced by Celeste Wesson.
A program produced from a public speak-out on abortion and sterilization abuse which was held September 10, 1977 at Washington Irving High School in New York City, sponsored by the Coalition for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse. The speak-out includes political, legal, medical and personal testimony from a variety of speakers. The speakers on…
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The Right to Life movement and reproductive rights / Louise Sherley and Katherine McMahon interviewed by Dorothy Healey
Dorothy Healey talks with Louise Sherley and Katherine McMahon, members of the New American Movement’s Socialist Feminist Reproductive Rights Task Force about the Family Protection Act, the Human Life Amendment, the goals and targets of the New Right, and abortion vs. sterilization funding. Healey begins the program by pleading with her audience to express solidarity…
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Teach-in on reproductive rights / produced by Clare Spark
The Los Angeles chapter of the Committee on Abortion Rights and Sterilization Abuse (CARASA) presents a teach-in on reproductive rights in response to the growing conservative backlash against the achievements of the women’s movement, especially initiatives like the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment. Topics covered in the teach-in include the history of reproductive rights, the legal questions…
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To have? Or not to have?…a child / Elaine Douglass and Bonnie Bellow.
Bonnie Bellow and Elaine Douglass discuss the decision to have children or not, including Ms. Douglass’s recent decision to undergo voluntary sterilization. Included is an interview with Dr. Robert Neuwirth, head of gynecological endoscopy at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, who, along with Dr. Melvin Cohen of Chicago pioneered laparoscopic and hysteroscopic sterilization procedures.
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Indians and medicine : sterilization and genocide / Dr. Connie Uri ; interviewed by Jim Berland.
Connie Uri, MD, a Native American doctor, discusses the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ sterilization policy in Oklahoma with KPFK’s Jim Berland. Uri describes the American government’s forcible sterilization of Native American women and reports on her visit of Claremore Indian Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma, where she discovered that over one hundred Native women who were…
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Everything you’ve always wanted to know about voluntary sterilization, but were afraid to ask / produced by Fred Flaxman.
People interviewed for this documentary include gynecologists, urologists, men and women who have been sterilized, clergymen, lawyers, and representatives of organizations favoring and opposing voluntary sterilization. Written and produced by Fred Flaxman. Interviews and editing by David Allen. Narrator is Tony Riggs. Includes Arthur Godfrey and Robert Packwood. A production of WETA-FM, Arlington, VA.