Millions of people in red states no longer have access to basic reproductive health care. Since the end of Roe v. Wade, thirteen states have banned abortion and a dozen more are expected to ban or severely restrict it in the months to come. Conservative states are attempting to outlaw medication abortion, and some are even proposing laws that criminalize people who receive abortion care or who aid and abet those seeking care. Stories of women on the verge of death from complicated pregnancies in states with abortion bans are now a regular occurrence.

The women’s liberation movement won the legal right to abortion fifty years ago through radical demands and militant direct-action campaigns. In Nancy Rosenstock’s Inside the Second Wave of Feminism, an oral history of Boston Female Liberation from 1968 to 1972, we hear from activists who dedicated their time fighting for an expansive idea of women’s liberation and reproductive rights. Amid the current fight for abortion access and reproductive justice, these accounts from our predecessors have much to offer. Speaking with Anne Rumberger, author and longtime activist Nancy Rosenstock reflects on the takeaways from the earlier fight for women’s liberation and how to build on that movement in a new era.