An Insight Into Medical Abortion as the Modern Day Janes

By Ava LeBlanc

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This podcast discusses the young women that made up the “Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation” – also known as “The Janes”. These women provided underground, illegal and safe abortions to over 11,000 women in 1960s Chicago. This podcast discusses the formation of the Janes and compares their services to modern day underground abortion networks that seek to keep abortion accessible in a Post-Roe world.