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A band of young women — most in their 20s, some in college, some married with children — banded together in Chicago to create an underground abortion network. The group was officially created in 1969 as the “Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation.”
A new film offers a fictionalized look at the Janes, activists who provided illegal abortions in Chicago before Roe v. Wade
The Jane Collective provided grassroots abortion care in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. A new doc film on their work is grimly relevant.
HBO’s new documentary, “The Janes,” details an underground collective of women who provided safe abortions in Chicago before Roe v. Wade.
Per HBO's new documentary, an underground organization dubbed Jane “provided an estimated 11,000 safe, affordable, illegal abortions" from 1968-1973.