The Janes Reminds Us of the Horrors of Criminalized Abortion

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#DemVoice1- Since Justice Alito's leaked draft to overturn Roe, these "Janes" say "deja vu"! They fought for legal abortions but also helped others to have safe but illegal abortions. Today they remind us of the horrors of criminalized abortion.

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The Janes Reminds Us of the Horrors of Criminalized Abortion
“It’s so inconceivable that we’re back here again,” says Emma Pildes, codirector of HBO’s new documentary about a group of Chicago women who secretly facilitated safe abortions in the late ’60s and...
3:47 PM · Jun 8, 2022

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Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes wish their new HBO documentary, The Janes—about a group of Chicago women who covertly helped thousands safely obtain abortions in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the procedure was still illegal—was not so timely.

But the film premieres on HBO Wednesday—just as the Supreme Court is likely poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, along with the constitutional right to abortion that it recognized.

“Never could we have predicted that this film would be coming out probably the very month that Roe is overturned,” Lessin told Vanity Fair in an interview this week.

The making of the film was surreal enough. The documentarians learned about the dangers women faced when abortion was criminal 50 years ago, even as current-day politicians were fighting to criminalize the procedure again.


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