HBO's 'The Janes' doc revisits underground abortions as Roe decision looms

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What would the U.S. look like if abortion were illegal? Ask the people who were there in a documentary more relevant than ever.

suggested the landmark 1973 ruling that established abortion rights nationwide could be toppled by a conservative majority of justices.offers first-hand accounts from the women at the center of the group, who have already seen an America where women's healthcare and personal choices are dictated by people in power and the economic and racial divides that become deepened when upheld by such power structures.

One of those women is Diane Stevens from the Chicago Women's Liberation Movement who told Newsweek that she and her collaborators were just"ordinary women" and that the"power of the film is that it shows what ordinary people can do." , the landslide vote became a beacon of progress for Irish women in what had always been, and in many ways still is a deeply Catholic country.

"Jane filled a gap in Chicago in that era, but you know, for every woman they served, I'm sure there were 10 women they couldn't possibly reach because of all those barriers," she added.One unsettling notion explored in the documentary is the idea that women have to justify their reasons for needing an abortion, and that it is nothing more than a personal choice related to their health., are placing the right of a fetus over that of a woman and her health.

Pildes said that she and Lessin wanted that aspect of the Jane Collective to be conveyed palpably in the film.

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