American feminist lawyer and non-fiction author (1933–2025)
Carollynn Aurilla Downer (née Chatham; October 9, 1933 – January 13, 2025) was an American feminist lawyer and non-fiction author who focused her career on abortion rights and women's health around the world. She was involved in the creation of the self-help movement and the first self-help clinic in LA, which later became a model and inspiration for dozens of self-help clinics across the United States. Background. Downer was born in 1933 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, but was raised in Los Angeles, where she started her local political movements in East Los Angeles in the 1960s.
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Carollynn Aurilla Downer (née Chatham; October 9, 1933 – January 13, 2025) was an American feminist lawyer and non-fiction author who focused her career on abortion rights and women's health around the world. She was involved in the creation of the self-help movement and the first self-help clinic in LA, which later became a model and inspiration for dozens of self-help clinics across the United States. Background. Downer was born in 1933 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, but was raised in Los Angeles, where she started her local political movements in East Los Angeles in the 1960s.
