Lucinda Cisler

Lucinda Cisler (born October 30, 1938) is an American abortion rights activist, Second Wave feminist, and member of the New York-based radical feminist group the Redstockings.[1] Her writings on unnecessary obstructions to medical abortion procedures in may ways predicted anti-abortion strategies in the 2010s, called Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) by abortion rights advocates.[2]

Early life

Cisler graduated from Vassar College in 1959.[3] She received a B.Arch. from Yale University and an M. Arch., M.C.P., and Certificate in Civic Design from the University of Pennsylvania.

Activism

As a member of the Redstockings, Cisler participated in the infamous 1968 picketing of the Miss America pageant. Her sign read: "women are enslaved by beauty standards." She contributed a chapter, "Unfinished Business : Birth control and women's liberation", to Sisterhood is Powerful : An anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement, compiled by Robin Morgan.[4]

Abortion activism

Cisler's essay on anti-abortion tactics appeared in the publication Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation[5], edited by Shulamith Firestone. "Abortion law repeal (sort of): a Warning to Women," argued that settling for reform to existing abortion law would result in a world "in which abortion is grudgingly parceled out by hospital committee fiat to the few women who can 'prove' they’ve been raped, or who are crazy, or are in danger of bearing a defective baby."[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Click here to support Stop Lucinda Cisler's Eviction organized by Jenny Brown". gofundme.com. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  2. ↑ "Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers". Guttmacher Institute. 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  3. ↑ "Vassar Quarterly 1 April 1965 — Vassar Newspaper Archive". newspaperarchives.vassar.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  4. ↑ Morgan, Robin; Morgan, Robin (1970), Sisterhood is powerful : an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement ([1st ed.] ed.), Random House, retrieved 28 March 2018
  5. ↑ https://www.scribd.com/document/347590119/Notes-From-the-Second-Year-Womens-Liberation
  6. ↑ "Abortion law repeal (sort of): a warning to women. In NOTES FROM THE SECOND YEAR (1970)". Fair Use Repository. 1970. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
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