Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation (Jane Collective)
Why Deleting Your Period Tracker Won’t Protect Your Privacy
In May 1972, the Chicago police raided a high-rise apartment where a group called the Jane Collective was providing abortions. It was the year before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision gave women the constitutional right to decide whether to give birth, and abortion was a criminal offense in Illinois. Seven women were arrested, […]
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At Sundance, Two Films Look at Abortion and the Jane Collective
Judith Arcana was 27 and recently separated from her husband when she began driving women surreptitiously for safe — but illegal — abortions. The year was 1970, she was an out-of-work teacher on the South Side of Chicago, and she was spending her days counseling women in need. “I don’t think we were crazy,” said […]
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