
The Jane Collective: How college students started an underground abortion network
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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Organizing and People Power Can Change Lives
A friend of mine told me her sister was pregnant and nearly suicidal because she wasn't ready to have a baby, and she wanted an abortion. I went to the network of a doctors from the medical committee for human rights in chicago. And i found a doctor, doctor t r m howard, who had a clinic on 60 third street in ch Chicago. The women of jane themselves performed 11 thousand abortions between 19 65 and 19 73,. when roe became the law of the land.
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