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The Janes

And... that she couldn't have the child

and... that she couldn't have the child

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and... that she couldn't have the child.
Duration
6 seconds
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17
Timestamp in Movie
00:57:38
Uploaded
Mar 28, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
HBO Documentary Films,Pentimento Productions,Elsewhere Films

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Movie Summary

Police arrested seven women who were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, blindfolds and safe houses, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions calling themselves JANE.
I don't think I judged her, I just wanted to be able to help. - The Janes 00:06
I don't think I judged her, I just wanted to be able to...
Being so young, - The Janes 00:07
Being so young,
She asked me, would I go with her, and I said yes. - The Janes 00:05
She asked me, would I go with her, and I said yes.
We cut school. And we took the bus. - The Janes 00:06
We cut school. And we took the bus.
I recall going into an apartment. - The Janes 00:05
I recall going into an apartment.
Was a lot of people. There was television going. - The Janes 00:05
Was a lot of people. There was television going.
It was like being in a doctor's waiting room, - The Janes 00:07
It was like being in a doctor's waiting room,
All I saw were white women running it, in charge. - The Janes 00:07
All I saw were white women running it, in charge.
We just... We lost it. We cried. - The Janes 00:05
We just... We lost it. We cried.
They gave me this book, Our Bodies, Ourselves. - The Janes 00:06
They gave me this book, Our Bodies, Ourselves.
I guess that's where I got my sex education from. - The Janes 00:06
I guess that's where I got my sex education from.
I can't say she was ashamed of it, - The Janes 00:12
I can't say she was ashamed of it,
We have three demands, to repeal all anti-abortion laws, - The Janes 00:10
We have three demands, to repeal all anti-abortion laws,
The things that happen to women under the existing system are so bad, - The Janes 00:08
The things that happen to women under the existing system ar...
These women are driven into the hands of criminal illegal abortionists and die. - The Janes 00:07
These women are driven into the hands of criminal illegal ab...
Destroying a life, a human life, is murder. - The Janes 00:05
Destroying a life, a human life, is murder.
There are many of us here who feel that fetal death is murder. - The Janes 00:06
There are many of us here who feel that fetal death is murde...
Your mortalities are largely among the Negro and the Puerto Rican, - The Janes 00:08
Your mortalities are largely among the Negro and the Puerto ...
Because a white woman has the padded pocketbook - The Janes 00:06
Because a white woman has the padded pocketbook
Every woman in every circumstance will suffer, - The Janes 00:10
Every woman in every circumstance will suffer,