“The Janes,” a documentary about an underground network of Chicagoans who helped women secure illegal abortions in the late ’60s and early ’70s, will make its local premiere next month as part of the Doc10 Documentary Film Festival.
The film from directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes uses archival footage and recent interviews with the activists to tell the history of the Jane Collective, who predated the Roe vs. Wade ruling and were up against both the police and the mob in their clandestine operation.
