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Watch the documentary, The Janes, on HBO. Get your copy of Laura Kaplan’s book, The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service, wherever books are sold. Laura Kaplan, member of the 1970’s clandestine network of abortion providers known as Jane, sits down with Biz! They talk about the lives, the risks, and the work of these outlaws helping women in need. Eventually, determined to reclaim women's reproductive power in any way they were able, many members of Jane learned to perform abortions themselves.Īn extraordinary history by one of Jane's members, The Story of Jane is an urgent account of the organization's development, the conflicts within the group, and the impact its work had on both the women it helped and the members themselves.Need an A? The Janes are at your service. As Jane grew, so did the group's capacity to protect its clients. Organized in 1969 and active until the opening of the first legal abortion clinics in 1973, Jane initially counseled women and referred them to abortion providers who set prices and conditions. The Story of Jane recounts the evolution of the Abortion Counseling Service, code name Jane, the underground group of heroic women that provided low-cost abortion services in Chicago in the years before the procedure was legalized. Also the subject of the acclaimed HBO documentary The Janes.A compelling testament to a woman's most essential freedom-control over her own body-and to the power of women helping women. The powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of its members.

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