Before Roe, Chicago had the Janes. Now, they’re coming back.
A documentary about the Jane Collective of the 1960s and ’70s inspired a local organizer to revive the group.
By Sarah Stark
Before Roe, Chicago had the Janes. Now, they’re coming back.
A documentary about the Jane Collective of the 1960s and ’70s inspired a local organizer to revive the group.
By Sarah StarkNow that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, a Chicago organizer wants to help people access abortion care in the Midwest. So she’s rebooting the Jane Collective, a 1970s group that helped facilitate thousands of abortions in Chicago before the procedure became legal.
Reset learns more about We Are Jane, a partnership between a South Side organizer and the Chicago Abortion Fund.
GUESTS: Tamar Manasseh, founder of We Are Jane and Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killings
Alicia Hurtado, communications and advocacy manager for the Chicago Abortion Fund