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It was like being in a doctor's waiting room
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The Janes

It was like beingin a doctor's waiting room, only it was more homey, you know, like

It was like being
in a doctor's waiting room, only it was more homey, you know, like

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It was like being in a doctor's waiting room,
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only it was more homey, you know, like...
Duration
7 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
00:58:18
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.
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,
It's not right for women to have to go to New York - The Janes 00:09
It's not right for women to have to go to New York
After New York became legal, women were just angry. - The Janes 00:06
After New York became legal, women were just angry.
"You could do it in New York, why can't I do it here?" - The Janes 00:19
"You could do it in New York, why can't I do it he...
When I started, it was in the days of the "doctor," - The Janes 00:09
When I started, it was in the days of the "doctor,"...
You know, I never gave it any thought whether he was an M.D. or not, - The Janes 00:09
You know, I never gave it any thought whether he was an M.D....
He was such a good abortionist, and I knew that from the jump. - The Janes 00:06
He was such a good abortionist, and I knew that from the jum...
Once, I said, "You know, - The Janes 00:08
Once, I said, "You know,