“I mean, I’m in my 70s now, so I can laugh about this. “Multiple felonies every day that we worked,” Kaplan says now. She chronicled Jane’s work in her 1995 book, The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service. One of the women to join Jane was Laura Kaplan, who was 24 years old when she moved to Chicago from New York in 1971 and got involved with the network. Wade ruling in 1973, Jane completed some 11,000 abortions. From the time it was founded to the opening of the first abortion clinics in Chicago following the Roe v. Sign up for the newsletter.Īt its peak, Jane administered an estimated 100 abortions a week. Want to read more stories like this? POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun every Friday.
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