Holland bus
The so-called Holland buses were organized in Switzerland by autonomous groups of the women's movement . Since abortion was only legal in Switzerland under restrictive conditions and in the 1970s and early 1980s a number of women were still punished with prison, women from Switzerland who wanted to have abortion drove together in buses to the more liberal Netherlands to have the operation in an abortion clinic exempt from punishment to have done.
The first Holland bus drove in 1978.
Web links
- Leena Schmitter: Politics of Reproduction. The women's movement and the liberalization of abortion in Switzerland (1971-2002) Bern, Univ.-Diss., 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Eugster: International Women's Day: The Fight of Women Against Stoves and Water Cannons March 8, 2019