A dramatic and important piece of women's history. Jane disbanded after abortion clinics became legal. She was also a founding member of a Chicago-based womens health-care center. 'I can dance backwards and forwards in four-inch heels,' she told Tacopina when he questioned her dressing-room balancing act. Several members were arrested in 1972, but the suit was dropped. The members of 'Jane' were lay-persons who learned how to perform abortions themselves. Jane Rosenberg/Reuters So far, Carrolls explanations are landing well. Jane volunteers were convinced that women were entitled to control over their bodies, and they acted on their principles, despite the consequences. Then, in their boldest step, the members took control of the entire process and began performing the abortions themselves. Initially Jane was a referral agency only, but as demand grew, members became involved in counseling and attended clients' abortions, and some eventually trained to perform the abortions. Here she draws on her personal recollections and interviews with Jane members and clients and the doctors who performed the abortions to provide a well-written, detailed history of this radical group. Kaplan, who is now a lay midwife, joined Jane in 1971 as a counselor. Wade decision legalizing abortion, a pioneering group of Chicago feminists who called themselves ``Jane'' provided illegal access to abortions for thousands of women. From 1969 until January 1973, when the U.S.
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