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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: CAROL DOWNERadmin2021-10-27T09:46:53-04:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Carol Downer

“My actions have been rooted in my personal experiences.”

A pioneer of the women’s self-help movement, author and attorney. Los Angeles NOW, abortion committee, 1969. Co-founder of The Feminist Women’s Health Center, CA 1973. Federation of Feminist Women’s Health Care Centers. Author of A New View of a Woman’s Body, How to Stay Out of the Gynecologist’s Office, Women Centered Pregnancy and Birth, and A Book of Women’s Choices.

Interviewed by Judy Waxman, October 2021

Photo 1. Carol Downer, Sandra Sullaway, Becky Chalker and Suzann Gage. Photo 2. Life Magazine Special Report, “Remarkable Women 1776-1976.” L-R: Suzann Gage, Sherry Shiffer, Francie Hornstein, Carol Downer, Lorraine Rothman, & Lynn Heidelberg (lying down), 1976.

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More About Carol:

  • Carol Downer’s website Women’s Health in Women’s Hands
    • Carol Downer, Self Help, A Short History
  • PODCAST: Carol Downer revolutionized the women’s health movement, and refuses to quit, decades later – by Meghan Murphy, founder and editor of Feminist Current, January 24, 2020
  • Carol Downer: Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter, September 2019
  • Interview with Francie Hornstein and Carol Downer, The Abortion Underground, May 2019
  • Interview – The secret home abortion movement that started in LA two years before Roe v. Wade, KPCC Radio, April 2017
  • “No Stopping: From Pom-Poms to Saving Women’s Bodies,” by Carol Downer, On the Issues Magazine – A Magazine of Feminist, Progressive Thinking,  2011
  • Women’s Spaces Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Carol Downer, 2005
  • Women’s health movement and the WATCH arrests, 1979, Pacifica Radio Archives
  • Self-Help Proponents Speak at Tribunal, The Oakland Tribune, 1972
  • The First Self Help Clinic, 1971
  • Wikipedia page
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975

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