The Abortion Underground

This, jessica says, is when the abortion underground really started to take form. It was made up of all sorts of people who, in the face of law criminalizing abortion, started organizing efforts to help women still get the procedure. There were referal services for underground abortions that began popping up all over the country. In california, you had something called the army of three. And then there's a couple of people that i focused on a little in the story who call themselves the west coast sisters. This was carol downer and lorraine rothman out of the la. Area,. They developed a technique that they called menstral extraction, which was