The Times podcast: Musicians for abortion rights redux
Donita Sparks, left, and the rest of the L7 punk band at Santa Monica beach in 1992.
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At this year’s Glastonbury music festival , performers openly criticized onstage the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, which happened that same week. It recalled a similar movement nearly 30 years earlier, when feminist rock groups started Rock for Choice and rallied a generation to fight for abortion access.
Today, the history of that movement — and whether it can happen again. Read the full transcript here.
Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: L.A. Times music reporter Suzy Exposito
More reading:
In the ’90s, a new breed of rock stars organized for abortion rights. Could that happen today?
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