A powerful new HBO documentary will tell the story of the Jane Collective, an underground organisation that provided abortion services in the days before RoeVWade
, which debuts on 8 June, tells the story of a determined group of abortion activists in the pre-Roe v Wade era, who started a trailblazing network known as the Jane Collective. Together, the women ran an underground organisation providing safe, affordable but illegal abortion services in Chicago in the 60s and early 70s, until they were raided by the Chicago Police Department in 1972 and seven women were arrested.
In the new trailer for the documentary, many of the women who participated in the network speak out for the first time about their efforts to help desperate women in need. The trailer details the discrimination unmarried pregnant women faced during the era, as well as the harrowing casualties experienced by frightened women who had attempted to perform their own abortions.
The trailer also explains how the collective was operating “under the radar of the Chicago Mafia and the police department”, and how members were under constant surveillance. When the women were finally arrested, they faced 110 years each in prison for conspiracy to commit abortion.“Sometimes you have to stand up to legitimate authority,” another adds. “And sometimes there are unjust laws that need to be challenged.
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