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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 · 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.
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...
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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 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.
Jun 9, 2022 · This HBO documentary spotlights the women activists who banded together to form Jane, a clandestine group providing safe abortions in the years before Roe v....
May 10, 2022 · 2.94M subscribers. Subscribed. 7.1K. 313K views 2 years ago. We had to go underground.” #TheJanesHBO tells the revelatory story of a group of unlikely outlaws. Defying the state le ...more. We ...
Jun 8, 2022 · The documentary from directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes briskly tells the story of The Jane Collective, which helped thousands of women obtain abortions when they were still illegal in the late 1960s and early ‘70s.
Jun 8, 2022 · The Janes, airing on HBO and streaming on HBO Max June 8, is not mostly a catalog of the suffering pregnant people endured before Roe became the law of the land and septic abortion wards...
Jan 25, 2022 · Film. Reviews. Jan 24, 2022 6:45pm PT. ‘The Janes’ Review: A Stirring Documentary Account of the Trailblazing Underground Abortion Network. Stylistically, Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes' film...