Kaplan herself was a member of Chicago’s Jane Collective, an underground organization that helped women attain abortions in the years leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. On this week’s 51%, activist Laura Kaplan discusses her 1995 book The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service, and reflects on its relevance today. Wade decision legalized abortion in 1973, the 100 members of Jane helped some 11,000 women end their pregnancies.There is more in this remarkable book that will further raise eyebrows.Kaplan’s engrossing tales of the quiet courage of the women who risked their reputations and freedom to help others may remind many readers of other kinds of outlaws who have resisted tyranny throughout history.Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:31:20 | Recorded on November 24, 2022 'During the four years before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. The Story of Jane succeeds on the steam of Kaplan’s gripping subject and her moving belief in the power of small-scale change.'-Cynthia Leive, New York Newsday 'Laura Kaplan’s The Story of Jane is the first book to chronicle this controversial sliver of history, and it is a fascinating, if partisan, close-up of the group. Wade, the issues and memories raised by the books are close and all too relevant.'-K Kaufmann, San Francisco Chronicle

'Weaving together the voices and memories of her former co-workers, Kaplan recounts how the group initially focused on counseling women and helping them find reliable, reasonably priced doctors.Kaplan’s account of this remarkable story recaptures the political idealism of the early ’70s.23 years after Roe vs. ' draws on her personal recollections and interviews with Jane members and clients and the doctors who performed the abortions to provide a well-written, detailed history of this radical group.'- Publisher’s Weekly 'Laura Kaplan’s The Story of Jane is the first book to chronicle this controversial sliver of history, and it is a fascinating, if partisan, close-up of the group.'- Newsday It serves to remind people of an important and often overlooked moment in the women’s rights movement.'- Seattle Weekly ' The Story of Jane is a piece of women’s history in step with feminist theory demanding that women tell their own stories. Laura Kaplan, who joined Jane in 1971, has pieced together the histories of the anonymous (here identified only by pseudonyms), average-sounding women who transformed themselves into outlaws.'- Cleveland Plain Dealer

Wade decision, most women determined to get abortions had to subject themselves to the power of illegal, unregulated abortionists.But a Chicago woman who happened to stumble across a secret organization code-named ’Jane’ had an alternative. 'In the four years before the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe vs.

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