Disappearance of public life
Today we witness the shrinking of public space and the curtailment of free speech, which threatens to distort our perception of reality.
On the evening of 21 March 1969, at the Washington Square Methodist Church in New York’s Greenwich Village, a revolution stirred. Around 300 women, and a sprinkling of men, sat in the wooden pews to listen to fiery testimony. Taking it in turn, 12 women stood up and spoke without giving their name about an illegal medical procedure: their own abortion.
“We are the ones that have had the abortions... This is why we’re here tonight, to make things come home... We are the only experts,” said one of them.
It took three long and emotional hours. There were tears, and there was shouting.
The radical feminist
