'Jane' - the underground abortion service
The secret 1960s US abortion network and the battle to protect the Barrier Reef.
The History Hour · BBC World Service
November 2, 201948m 44s
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Show Notes
The feminist network that performed illegal abortions in the 1960s in Chicago, the Algerian nationals who fought alongside the French in Algeria’s war of independence and when Margaret Thatcher first expressed anti- Europe sentiment. Plus the Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors at the end of the Second World War and the battle to protect the Barrier Reef. Photo courtesy of Martha Scott