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- 01Downer's arrest came after she showed women their own cervices using a plastic speculum and a flashlight at a Los Angeles feminist health clinic.
- 02The prosecution's key exhibit was a jar of yogurt Downer had inserted into a woman's vagina as a yeast infection remedy — the 'yogurt case.'
- 03Her 1972 acquittal was cited in the founding documents of the women's self-help health movement, which spread to 50 cities within three years.