"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title."In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. P.L., Parma, OhioĬopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. As a study of this remarkable but little known phenomenon, this book will be of value to anyone interested in women's health, the women's movement, and women's reproductive health and rights, particularly now that those rights are coming under increasing attack.Īudrey Eaglen, Cuyahoga Cty. But the operations were not all they did every one of the 11,000 women who came to Jane also received health education and counseling. Eventually the women were taught by an expert to do the abortions themselves, which enabled them to charge next to nothing to those in financial need. At first they handled referrals to willing doctors on a very limited basis-only three or four a week-but as word about Jane got around their business increased. They called their referral service "Jane" and worked out a set of complicated procedures to keep both themselves and their clients out of jail. Wade Supreme Court ruling in 1973, a group of Chicago women formed a loose underground organization whose sole purpose was to aid women who needed abortions (then illegal, of course) in getting them as safely and inexpensively as possible. Mary Carroll From Library Journal:įrom 1969 until the Roe v. This is lively, nuanced history that brings to life the hopes, terrors, and disappointments of a movement committed to giving women control over their own bodies.
Because Jane kept limited records, Kaplan's reconstruction is based on interviews with some 40 percent of the 100 women who participated at one time or another some Jane members are not prepared to be publicly identified, so Kaplan uses pseudonyms for all of them, including herself.
Herself a member of Jane, Kaplan describes stages in the service's brief life-from screening abortionists to referring clients to a particular practitioner to learning how to perform abortions themselves-and the issues of knowledge, power, responsibility, and respect, which had a key impact on interactions among participants as well as on Jane's relationships with clients, the medical establishment, and the criminal justice system. Spot and Dick play no role in Kaplan's vivid, thoughtful "collective memoir" of the Chicago women who formed Jane (officially, the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation), which gave 11,000 women access to safe but illegal abortions between 1969 and the Supreme Court's Roe v.
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