Carol Downer, feminist women’s health leader, dies at 91
Carol Downer, leader of the feminist women's health movement who became nationally famous for her role in a case known as the Great Yogurt Conspiracy – so called because she was accused of practicing medicine without a license to distribute yogurt to cure an infection from yeast – died on January 13 in Glendale, California. He was 91 years old.His death, in hospital, was confirmed by his daughter Angela Booth, who said he had had a heart attack a few weeks earlier.Ms. Downer was a self-described housewife and mother of six in the late 1960s, when she joined the women's movement and began working on the abortion committee of her local chapter of the National Organization for Women. She had had an illegal abortion years earlier and was determined to ensure that others did not suffer as she d...