Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978

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• 323 • Abernathy, Ralph, 88, 146 abortion, 154, 161–66; abortion mills, 163–64; crackdowns, 161; debate, limits of, 177; do-it-yourself methods , 163–64; and geopolitics of the body, 225; Hyde Amendment, 175, 226; incomplete abortions, 162; in Mexico, 162, 163; People v. Barksdale, 164; and racism, 171; “therapeutic” abortions, 161–63. See also abortion laws; abortion rights movement Abortion Handbook for Responsible Women,The(PhelanandMaginnis), 174–75; as neo-Malthusian, 174; and overpopulation, 174 abortion laws: Beilenson Therapeutic Abortion Act, 164; Roe v. Wade, 163–64, 167, 179; reform of, 161, 162–63; violence of, 161. See also abortion; abortion rights movement abortion rights movement: choice, focus on, 175–76. See also abortion; abortion laws Abrams, Charles, 45–46 Abron, JoNina, 263n58 Abzug, Bella, 177 ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), 132, 133; Hernandez case, 158 activism: antiracist, 19–20; Asian American, 18–19; Chicana/o, 18–19, 96–97, 142; coalition work, 80–81; and radicalization, 89; on welfare rights, 19. See also Black politics; Chicana/o activism; feminist politics activist mothering, 266n27. See also political mothering AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children), 105, 146, 176, 212, 237; expansion of, 167; out-ofwedlock children, limits on, 158 Affordable Care Act (ACA), 246 AFL-CIO, 256n23 African Americans: and “black tax,” 23, 46; in defense industry, 36; infant mortality rates of, 192; pathologization of, 62–63; poverty, postWW II, 55–56; self-determination of, 72, 158; unemployment among, 55–56; urban political power of, 235. See also Black politics Agent Orange, 6, 10 Aid to Needy Children (ANC) Mothers Anonymous, 116, 194–95 Alexander, Althea, 113, 145, 178 Alinsky, Saul, 58 Allen, Barbara, 169 AMA (American Medical Association), 3, 181–82, 183; Black membership, denial of, 38; and hospital desegregation , 41–42; Medicare, opposition to, 19; national health insurance, Index opposition to, 181; and population control, 156–57; and segregation, 182 Anaheim, CA, 83 Anglo: as term, 249n1 Another Mother for Peace (AMP), 11, 113; on military toxics, 122–23; on poverty, 124; war as psychological harm, 123–24 anticolonialism, 93, 149, 179, 262n47 anticommunism, 8, 33–34; in civil rights movement, 85; during Cold War, 24, 25; John Birch Society, 3 antifeminism, 209 antimetropolitanism, 210 antiracism, 90; and antiwar movement , 133; and coalition building, 266n27. See also civil rights movement ; racism antiwar movement, 9–10, 107, 108, 112, 129–30, 131 fig. 8, 247; and antiracism, 133; feminist critique of, 118; and Johnson, Lyndon, 111–12; organizing, 144; radicalization of, 85; and welfare, 177. See also peace movement; Women Striking for Peace (WSP) Arundel, Ronald, 194 Asian American movement, 144, 203, 221; against drugs, 97–98 See also Asian Americans Asian Americans: cultural alienation of, 91; model minority myth, 97. See also Asian American movement ; Japanese Americans Asian Coalition, 144 Asian Women’s Center, 203 Association for Voluntary Sterilization , 169, 272 Association of Interns and Medical Students (AIMS), 40 Association to Repeal Abortion Laws (ARAL), 162–63, 174 austerity, 209, 212; anti-austerity coalitions, 230; body politics of, 224–25; militarized, 246; multicultural , 242; politics of, 237–38; racialized, 103, 205; and scapegoating , 236 authenticity, 72–74 Avedon, Barbara, 132 Avenue of Missiles, 26 fig. 1 Avery, Herbert, 159 Baby Tooth Survey, 1–2, 122 backlash thesis, 54–55, 210–11, 233 Bambara, Toni Cade, 170 Bass, Charlotta, 32, 40 Bates, Jim, 71 Beale, Frances, 161 Beavert, Carolyn Sue, 202 Beilenson, Anthony, 223 Beilenson Act, 223 Berkeley Free Clinic, 202 biomedical individualism, 69, 258n74 biomedicine: and Black selfdetermination , 158 birth control, 13; availability of, 160; Dalkon Shield (IUD), 160; DepoProvera , 160, 167; federal funding for, 167; forced sterilization as, 153; as ideological practice, 4; programs, 157–59; and sexual liberation, 154. See also abortion; family planning; sterilization, forced; population control Birth Control Handbook, 165 Bivens, James, 202 Black Congress, 113, 133, 136, 159 Black freedom movement, 2, 6, 37, 62, 324 INDEX 128; and peace movement, 80–85, 113, 129; radicalization of, 85. See also Black politics Black nationalism, 72 Blackness, 73; as term, 249n1; and white property, 46 Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP), 15, 18, 92, 134, 136; abortion stance, 170; birth control, 170; capitalism, critique of, 93, 95; coalitional work of, 262n56; colonial critique of, 92; community service programs, 94, 263n58; free breakfast program, 96, 99, 101; free clinics, 99, 101–2; LAPD raid, 102, 133, 103 fig. 4, 271n25; and Malcolm X, 263n61; and Mao, 139, 263n61; Newton-Cleaver split...