There were no cell phones in those days. There were just land lines. And if you pick it up, they asked for lan or eleanor,. Or they said, i'd like to speak with jane please. We would write down on three by five cards the names of people that we thought could counsel us and then hand them out. This is the brocure. This is how dumb we are. Whenever we had a speak out on a woman's issue, we brought along a whole stack of these thingso let's see, what's the title? There? Abortion a woman's decision, a woman's right. And there's the whole philosophy, a lot of prose
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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