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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Our Bodies, Ourselves — Online

By VTD Editor • VTDigger.org • April 22, 2018

> Pincus was one of about two dozen women — many of them young mothers — in the Boston area who found themselves in 1969 unhappy with the scarcity of reliable facts about reproduction. Tired of “getting coffee for the guys” in local civil rights and anti-war activist circles, Pincus said, women “wanted to talk about themselves for a change.”  
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> Each chose a subject for research and discussion — often inspired by personal experience, a problem encountered, such as birth control measures that didn’t work, pregnancy, a difficult delivery, postpartum depression or abortion — which was still illegal.

  
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