Interview with Carol Downer and Francie Hornstein, who helped women get safer abortions in the 1960s before the procedure became legal in the US.

Jul 14, 2019 ∞

Interview with Carol Downer and Francie Hornstein, who helped women get safer abortions in the 1960s before the procedure became legal in the US.

The abortion underground: Downer and Hornstein helped women provide a safer alternative to brutal back-alley butchers to end unwanted pregnancies. Downer herself suffered a traumatic back-alley abortion in 1963, which inspired her to help other women.