THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Carolyn Montgomery
“I Was Appalled that I Had to Get Contraceptives Under the Table.”
Women’s Equal and Reproductive Rights Advocate. NOW Boston Chapter, VP. NOW Contraception and Abortion Task Force. Massachusetts Organization to Repeal Abortion Laws (MORAL). Boston YWCA. Public Relations and Media specialist.
Interviewed by Rosemary Trowbridge, October 2019
Carolyn Montgomery
More About Carolyn:
- The reason for Carolyn’s first action – In 1969 Bill Baird was sentenced to prison for distributing a contraceptive device to an unmarried woman in violation of a Massachusetts law banning “Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order.”
- Carolyn offers the passage of the abortion repeal resolution at the Episcopalian convention, Boston Globe 1971
- Selected newspaper articles 1970 – 1975
- Boston Chapter of NOW Records