"We actually have a brochure and I have a copy of the brochure," she says. "It's just an eight and a half by 11 inch piece of paper folded into four sides" The Chicago Women's Liberation Union had its own phone number: 643-384. They handed out tons of these things in Chicago, whenever we had a speak out on a woman's issue.
Before Roe v. Wade, Eleanor Oliver was a Jane: a member of a group in Chicago that helped women get safe but illegal abortions. Sean Rameswaram sat down with her on the day Roe was overturned.
This episode was edited and fact-checked by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and produced by Victoria Chamberlin and host Sean Rameswaram.
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