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

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The Importance of Relying on Women in Abortion

All of the work was being done entirely by women. They also still wanted to again sort of de-medicalize it and they wanted to give clients agency. At least one Jane later pointed out that decision making was kind of fraught within the collective. It's just a thing that happens where like, you know, like tree sitters are like, oh, we can't talk about patriarchy within the movement. And I'm going to turn to single them out for this. Every activist organization I've ever heard of does this Right.

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