Title: WomenPower!
Description: This small zine is intended to help disenfranchised women without access to conventional treatments obtain abortions. It begins with a short history of the Jane Collective, a Chicago-based organization whose members administered abortions despite lacking medical training. The zine encourage readers to be skeptical of the government, the healthcare system, and even prominent feminist organizations (NOW, NARAL, Planned Parenthood); instead, the authors contend that individuals should eschew the medical system, take control of their own bodies, and learn how to perform abortions themselves. Included in the zine are instructions for how to perform a menstrual extraction, an abortion technique developed by the Federation of Feminist Women’s Health Centers.
Subjects: Unwanted pregnancy, Menstrual regulation, History, Handbooks, manuals, Sexual minorities, Women anarchists
Time periods: 20th century