ANews Podcast 262 – 5.13.22

From ANews Podcast

Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org.

Notes:

This week’s What’s New segment was aborted.

We include the full audio for the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective DIY Abortion Pills video: https://archive.org/details/FTVDIYA

TOTW: Abortion, with Ann, Max Res and Octox

Sound edited by Octox

Music and Samples:

1. Rambo First Blood 2 (1985) "Abort the Mission" Scene

2. Mandy Goes To Med School, by Dresden Dolls

3. Voicemail for Jill, by Amanda Palmer

4. Abortion, by Cars Can Be Blue

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I enjoyed the critique of medicine as a professional institution and the related critique of rights in this episode, grounded by practical experiences. I wish these critiques were more common because they get at what it looks like to have control over your own body and health, with procedures and medicine outside of medical bureaucracy and professionalization.

it wasn’t such a controversial idea in USA even a few centuries ago. take for instance: “a Virginia medical handbook from 1734 called Every Man His Own Doctor: The Poor Planter's Physician.

This medical handbook provided home remedies for a variety of ailments, allowing people to handle their more minor illnesses at home, like a fever or gout. One entry, however, was "for the suppression of the courses", which Farrell discovered meant a missed menstrual period.

"[The book] starts to prescribe basically all of the best-known herbal abortifacients and contraceptives that were circulating at the time," Farrell said. "It's just sort of a greatest hits of what 18th-century herbalists would have given a woman who wanted to end a pregnancy early."

from https://text.npr.org/1099542962

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