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Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v Wade this urgent audiobook fromhistorian Felicia Kornbluh reveals two movement victories in New York that forever changed the politics of reproductive rights nationally

A Womans Life Is a Human Life is the story of the movements that transformedthe politics of reproductive rights the fight to decriminalize abortion and thecampaign against sterilization abuseat a time when sterilization was disproportionately proposed as birth control to Black Latinx and poor women Their victories occurred just before and after Roev Wade and their histories cast new light on the case and the fateof reproductive rights and justice today From dissident Democrats and members of a rising feminist movement who refashioned abortion lawsto progressive ministers and rabbis who led the nations largest abortion referralservice to Puerto Rican activists who introduced sterilization abuse to thereproductive rights agenda and Black women who took the cause global AWomans Life Is a Human Life chronicles how activists changedthe law and demanded reproductive justiceThe first indepth study of a winning campaign to change a states abortion law with firsthand accounts andpreviously unseen sourcesincluding from her mother who drafted New Yorkslaw decriminalizing abortion and acrossthehall neighbor Dr HelenRodrguezTras a Puerto Rican doctor and leader in the movement againststerilization abuseFelicia Kornbluh shows how grassroots action overcamethe oddsand how it might work today