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“Keeping women from being too intimidated”: The Battle for Reproductive Rights “Keeping women from being too intimidated”: The Battle for Reproductive Rights
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“To Provide an Alternative View”: The Church Ladies for Choice “To Provide an Alternative View”: The Church Ladies for Choice
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“It helped me become a person”: Forging a Queer Identity “It helped me become a person”: Forging a Queer Identity
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“They were all dying, pretty regularly” “They were all dying, pretty regularly”
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“The bottom fell out” “The bottom fell out”
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“These folks went out to do other work”: Legacies “These folks went out to do other work”: Legacies
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Six It Saved My Life: Creating Queer Politics
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Published:April 2015
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Abstract
This chapter explores coalition between two reproductive rights activist groups—ACT UP and WHAM!. The two work for improved prevention and treatment for HIV/AIDS, and support women's rights to bodily autonomy. In the early 1990s, Operation Rescue and other antiabortion groups barricaded women's health clinics in often successful attempts to close them. Just as ACT UP had rejected sexual shame in relation to the AIDS epidemic, WHAM! protested that women should not be made to feel ashamed for expressing their sexuality and controlling their reproduction, including via abortion. Through their demonstrations, WHAM! illustrated a different model for thinking about reproductive rights as a necessary part of health care for women and of access to high-quality health care as a human right.
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