Equal parts accessible and informative, “The Janes” shines a light on life before the right to choose became protected by the Roe v. Wade decision — the landmark ruling overturned by the Supreme Court mere weeks after the film’s premiere on HBO.
It takes real finesse to deliver a history lesson that’s lively, funny and personal but still conveys the weight of its subject matter. And that’s exactly where HBO’s timely documentary "The Janes" excels.
"We were really ordinary women, and we were trying to save women’s lives," one interview subject recalls near the end of the documentary. "We wanted every woman who contacted us to be the hero of her own story." She’s talking about the Jane Collective, the underground Chicago network that provided around 11,000 safe, affordable, illegal abortions between 1968 and 1973. Equal parts accessible and informative, "The Janes" shines a light on life before the right to choose became protected by the Roe v. Wade decision — the landmark ruling overturned by the Supreme Court mere weeks after the film’s premiere on HBO.
Yet it’s also evident just how personal this work was for these radically empathetic activists, many of whom joined the organization out of a desire to ensure other women had better abortion experiences than the harrowing ones they were subjected to in dingy, uncaring settings. "The Janes" never loses sight of the high stakes at play, both for the women receiving abortions and for the women running the highly illegal operation. But what emerges most strongly is the sense of how empowering and transformative this work was for the women of Jane, who created in each other the sort of compassionate health care system that condescending male lawmakers and doctors so cruelly denied them.
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