Ask for Jane (2018) on Netflix
Chicago, 1969. Rose and Janice find a doctor to help a pregnant student who has tried to take her own life, then build a network that sends other women to doctors.
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Plot summary
Abortion is a crime in Chicago in 1969 and birth control is nearly impossible to obtain. Women who try to end pregnancies themselves sometimes die. When a student at the University of Chicago who is pregnant attempts to kill herself, Rose and Janice locate a doctor who will perform the procedure quietly to save her life. The two then form the Jane Collective, an underground group that looks for doctors and points pregnant women toward them, using blindfolds and code names. Donna is refused permission to teach sex education at the school where she works and hides a book about birth control in the library. Patty, who is pregnant, leaves school and runs away from home, and Rose persuades her to have an abortion.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ask for Jane (2018)
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- The film is based on the true story of the Jane Collective, an underground abortion network active in Chicago between 1969 and 1973, which helped more than 11,000 women obtain illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade was passed.
- Ask for Jane is the first ever narrative feature film about the Jane Collective, the Chicago underground abortion network that helped women obtain illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973.
