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Health
Hilary Beaumont

What will US abortion sanctuary networks look like?

In June, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, ending the constitutionally-protected right to abortion in the country and spurring mass protests [File: Michael A. McCoy/Reuters]

Los Angeles, California, US – It was 1969 and Sunny Chapman, then 19, needed an abortion.

It was four years before Roe v Wade would enshrine abortion as a constitutional right in the United States, and Chapman had heard about the Jane Collective, a feminist network that provided underground abortions in Chicago.

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