About Ira and the WOMR podcasts…
Ira Wood is the producer / host of The Lowdown, a talk show on Pacifica Radio Network affiliate WOMR-FM, Provincetown, focusing on books, science, politics, and social trends. From nationally known authors, politicians, and entertainers to local activists, artists, and eccentrics, The Lowdown reaches listeners throughout Cape Cod and the Boston suburbs with informed and lively conversation.
His 5-minute essays, which he calls Matters of Opinion air most Fridays at the end of the station’s weekly news magazine.
The long struggle for reproductive rights was waged against the church, the government, and the patriarchy but also included a bitter battle between feminists.