American Women — Reproductive rights

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 4, 1980

    Production reel for June 4, 1980 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. Includes recording of Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916-2000) speaking on ways women can use boycotting as a way of protest; activist Freda Rosen (1945– 2007) is interviewed about the Coalition of Grassroots Women and the upcoming Women’s Convention (June 22, 1980); 3. Judith Loren[sp?] and…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer – November 25, 1981: Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on abortion law (Part 1 only)

    Production reel for the November 25, 1981 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. Producer Eileen Zalisk introduces the program, a continuation of the Women’s Department’s presentation of tapes edited and selected from the hearings of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Constitution, the hearings on the topic of abortion. Begins with hearings from October 19, 1981,…

  • 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…

  • Women’s legal clinic: March 23, 1981

    EVERY WOMAN’S SPACE: WOMEN’S LEGAL CLINIC / Produced by WBAI. Recorded on March 23, 1981, hosted by Judith Levin and Betty Levinson. Discussion is on the Helms-Hyde bill, known as the “Human life” bill, which has been introduced into the Supreme Court legislature. They discuss the bill and the social and legal context it came…

  • Consciousness raising-WBAI (Episode 2 of 4): Adolescent puberty rituals

    Consciousness-raising: An examination of women’s issues. This discussion focuses on adolescent puberty rituals. The participants discuss how their mothers talked, or avoided talking to them, about puberty, menstruation, buying bras, etc. This program was possibly broadcast with a series of discussions by ex-wives or separated wives ca. October 1971 through April 1972. Recording ends abruptly.

  • Abortion on demand : a debate

    Representatives of pro- and anti-abortion groups debated the issue of abortion on demand at the Militant Forum in Oakland on October 29, 1971. The pro-abortion position was advanced by Brenda Brdar, a member of Female Liberation and the Women’s National abortion Coalition; and Dr. Joan Ullyot (pronounced Elliot), a pathologist at the University of California…

  • The abortion battle rages on

    Ida Honorof interviews Dr. Paul Marx, Professor of Sociology at St. John’s University and author of “The Death Peddlers: War on the Unborn” and Mary Petrinovich of the National Organization of Women (NOW) and the Women’s Clinic in Los Angeles, about the controversy surrounding the legalization of abortion.

  • Women’s abortion coalition.

    A panel discussion on abortion with members of the Women’s Abortion Coalition (WAC), a Bay Area group composed of women from various women’s groups. The group discusses their efforts to liberalize abortion laws, the implications of the People v. Barksdale decision, the putative effects of abortion law repeal, abortion techniques, contraception, sterilization, and the WAC’s…

  • Freedom of choice: a woman’s world – marriage revisited / Dr. Gail Fullerton

    Dr. Gail Putney Fullerton, author and Professor of Sociology at San Jose State College, delivered this talk to an audience at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco on October 9, 1969. Fullerton says she was asked to speak on “marriage revisited”, including the economic and domestic functions of marriage from frontier time…