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<p>Recent attention to the Jane Collective's pre-Roe activities to help women obtain abortions has passed over the work of a small number of Black women like Marie Leaner within the group, and the struggle to connect reproductive and racial justice politics. </p>
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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' explores a Pre-Roe v. Wade Underground abortion network run by women in Chicago. The group helped 11,000 women get abortions.