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Part One: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Importance of Being a Woman in the Abortion Access Movement

One of the founders, Jody Howard was particularly close with Nick Mike and there's some kind of like subtext and what I read. She had two kids in lymphatic cancer and she was pregnant for a third time but doctors still wouldn't let her get an abortion. Theoretically, the law at the time was if childbirth would kill you, you can getting an abortion. And so she started insisting and then started insisting that he apprentice her.

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