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The story of Jane : the legendary underground feminist abortion service / Laura Kaplan.
- Title
- The story of Jane : the legendary underground feminist abortion service / Laura Kaplan.
- Author
- Kaplan, Laura.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Pantheon Books, c1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Request in advance | HQ767.5.U5 K37 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xx, 314 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- During the four years of the group's existence, Jane provided more than 11,000 women with safe and affordable abortions, abortion counseling, and health education.
- In 1969 - four years before Roe v. Wade decriminalized abortion - a group of women in Chicago responded to a critical problem: the danger and desperation faced by women who could not obtain legal abortions. The group set up an underground abortion referral service with a phone number and a single name: Jane.
- Soon in constant demand, the service saved lives while giving women affirmation of their right to control their own bodies. Determined to lower cost and increase safety, Jane eventually put an abortionist "on contract," and learned, while assisting him, the art of his work. Then, in their boldest step, the members took control of the entire process and began performing the abortions themselves.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-297) and index.
- ISBN
- 0679420126
- LCCN
- 95030832
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries