Documents From Chicago’s Clandestine Abortion Service, 1968-1973

Firestarter Press ed.     2004     60p     5 x 8

Jane was the abortion counseling service affiliated with the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (CWLU). Before abortion was legalized in 1973, Jane members, none of whom were physicians, performed over 11,000 illegal abortions. Their philosophy was that women had the right to safe humane abortions and that if that wasn’t legally possible, then it was up to the women’s liberation movement to take up the slack.

Jane PDF

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