How one Chicago group helped women get abortions in pre-Roe America
The Jane Collective provided over 10,000 abortions to women in apartments throughought Chicago during the 1960s and 1970s.
By Lynnea Domienik
How one Chicago group helped women get abortions in pre-Roe America
The Jane Collective provided over 10,000 abortions to women in apartments throughought Chicago during the 1960s and 1970s.
By Lynnea Domienik
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Before Roe v. Wade, the Jane Collective connected women to doctors who were willing to perform abortions. The Chicago group later grew into a network of members who learned how to do the procedures themselves.
Reset learns more about this history, in the wake of a leaked draft opinion that suggests the Supreme Court could overturn the landmark 1973 ruling.
GUEST: Leslie Reagan, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; author of When Abortion Was a Crime