At first the women in Jane concentrated on screening abortionists, attempting to determine which ones were competent and reliable.
Other groups offering the same kind of crucial help took shape at this time throughout the country. Organized in 1969, Jane initially counseled women and referred them to the underground for abortions. Each one was making the best decision about motherhood that she could make at the time. Some women agonized over the decision, while others had no doubts. They were women who could not care for a child and women who did not want a child. They were older women who thought they were no longer fertile young girls who did not understand their reproductive physiology.
They were women whose husbands or boyfriends forbade them to use contraceptives women who had conceived on every method of contraception women who had not used contraceptives. Every week desperate women of every class, race and ethnicity telephoned Jane. Jane was the contact name for a group in Chicago officially known as The Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation. Wade decision legalized abortion, thousands of women called Jane. 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.During the four years before the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. 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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