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The Janes is a 2022 American documentary film. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2022, and was released on HBO Max on June 8, the month after a leaked draft opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was released, starting protests across the United States.
Jun 8, 2022 · With Abby, Judith Arcana, Heather Booth, Richard J. Daley. Police arrested seven women who were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, blindfolds and safe houses, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions calling themselves JANE.
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- Documentary
- Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes
- 2022-06-08
The Janes tells the story of a group of unlikely outlaws. Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the members of Jane risked their personal and professional lives to help women in need.
Jun 9, 2022 · “The Janes” is a straightforward, talking-heads documentary from HBO that provides a brief history of the Jane Collective, a clandestine abortion group working out of Chicago in the late 1960s ...
- Beatrice Loayza
- Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes
Frighteningly timely and powerfully persuasive, The Janes offers a unique opportunity to look back at a pivotal chapter in American history through the eyes of those who helped define it. Read...
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- Documentary, History
May 10, 2022 · The Janes | Official Trailer | HBO. We had to go underground.” #TheJanesHBO tells the revelatory story of a group of unlikely outlaws. Defying the state le ...more. We had to go underground...
- 3 min
- 313K
- HBO
Jun 10, 2022 · The Janes were a group of women activists in Chicago who provided safe but illegal abortions from the late 1960s until the passing of 1973’s Roe v. Wade. At the time, the group’s survival depended on being underground, and while members are now in their 70s, many were never public figures.
