The Janes Reminds Us of the Horrors of Criminalized Abortion

Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes wish their new HBO documentary, The Janes—about a group of Chicago women who covertly helped thousands safely obtain abortions in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the procedure was still illegal—was not so timely. But the film premieres on HBO Wednesday—just as the Supreme Court is likely poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, along with the constitutional right to abortion that it recognized. “Never could we have predicted that this film would be coming out probably the very month that Roe is overturned,” Lessin told Vanity Fair in an interview this week. The… Read Full Article