Oh! I had heard of the vacuum extraction before! She sounds almost like a modern-day Florence Nightingale. And that yogurt but, it reminds me of being banned from a mental health subreddit for telling people omega 3's could ease depression.

Believe it or not, there are new gender inclusive versions of Our Bodies, Ourselves 🙄

“I began to gradually develop a radical political consciousness,” she said in an oral history conducted by the Veteran Feminists of America in 2021. “I mainly learned that no one survives on welfare without some kind of informal support network or a hustle.” She had four children and was separated from her husband when she became pregnant, and decided to have an abortion. It was 1962, five years before abortion was legalized in California and 11 years before Roe. While the procedure was performed by a someone with experience and was medically safe, she received no anesthesia so that if the place — an office with no furniture beside a table — was raided by the police, she could get up and run.

Gosh, it really makes me think.

She really was! (And I am chagrined that I knew nothing about her!)