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Abortion in America: From the JANE Collective to the Post-Dobbs Health and Legal Landscape
Sun, Oct 29
|Washington Hebrew Congregation
In Chicago in the late 1960s a group of young women ran an underground network with safe houses and code words - they were outlaws who called themselves "JANE" - one of those JANEs went to Barnard ......


Time & Location
Oct 29, 2023, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Washington Hebrew Congregation, 3935 Macomb St., N.W., Washington, DC 20016, USA
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About the Event
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in that the United States Constitution protects a woman’s right to obtain an abortion. Prior to , abortion was largely illegal in the United States and women who sought to terminate a pregnancy often had to resort to dangerous procedures that at times led to serious physical injury and death. In the late 1960s, a group of young women in Chicago formed the underground JANE Collective where, at their own legal peril, they provided counseling on abortion services to women. After the decision, the Janes disbanded and for the next fifty years women in the United States were able to obtain medically safe abortions. All of that changed in June 2022, however, when the Supreme Court overturned the decision in case, and for the first time in U.S. history took away a fundamental right. As Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan noted in their dissentin…