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UT Austin Activists Build Underground Abortion Network
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In the late 1960s, UT Austin students Victoria Foe, Judy Smith and Barbara Hines built an underground network to connect women to birth control and illegal abortion services in Texas, a story now told in Karen Stirgwolt’s documentary Lone Star Three. Their campus work and legal links contributed to momentum toward Roe v. Wade, highlighting grassroots organizing’s role in reproductive-rights change.
