Perspective: How activists can secure legal abortion with a diverse all-of-the-above movement.
Despite periodic campaigns, draconian abortion laws seemed nearly immune to change from the 19th century to the 1960s. But in the second half of that decade, activists succeeded at decriminalizing abortion or loosening restrictions in 17 states and Washington, D.C. This history shows how effective a diverse political coalition can be when it throws everything it has at a problem — from disruptive civil disobedience, to demonstrations of commitment by people of faith, to tireless lobbying.
A month later, in March 1969, Redstockings members countered this hearing with a “speak-out” at a Manhattan church where women shared their own abortion experiences. Doing so embodied the feminist movement’s creed that the personal was political. Sharing what was considered strictly private, even shameful, enabled women to see that many had had similar experiences.
NOW members, and proponents of abortion decriminalization in both parties with whom they worked closely, protested peaceably, organized information nights at local political clubs, published broadsides about abortion as a fundamental element of women’s civic equality with men and threatened their representatives with punishment at the polls if they did not change their positions. They lobbied in the state capitol and in local political offices.
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