There's reason for people on opposing sides of abortion to talk, even if they disagree Kate Isaacs, Excellent, important, timely, urgent and needs to be seen and discussed widely Peter Coleman, Founding Executive Director of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) at The Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of. Ned Lamont, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, and local OB/GYNs spoke at the event put on by DefendDemocracy to protest against the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. Howard agreed to help the friends sister and continued to perform abortion services for women who came to Booth for assistance until she lost touch with him. GEOR, IOWA, KAET, KBDI, KCET, KCPT, KCTS, KENT, KENW, KLRU, KLVX, KNME, KOOD, KPBS, KQED, KQEH, KRCB, KRMA, KRSU, KTOO, KTWU, KVCR, KWSU, NDAK, NEWH, NEWJ, OREG, SDAK, WCET, WCFE, WCVE, WEDU, WFSU, WGBY, WGCU, WILL, WITF, WJCT, WKAR, WLIW, WMHT, WMVS, WNED, WNIN, WNIT, WNMU, WNPT, WOUB, WPBA, WPBT, WPTD, WPTO, WQED, WQPT, WSRE, WTIU, WTVI, WUCF, WUSF, WXXI. ANDY HUSE, ARTSERVE FT. LAUDERDALE One Jane would drive them to a home they called the front, where another Jane would counsel them. Her civil rights activism also introduced her to Dr. T.R.M. 4. According to the media gossip platform Def Noodles, the video received more than 33,000. DEL BARCO: "The Janes" airs on HBO next month. NPR's Mandalit del Barco has this report. SYLVANA FERNNDEZ Nelson A. Rockefeller signs a bill repealing the state's 1830 law that banned abortion after quickening except to save a woman's life. On Sept. 1, the state . We must care with compassion, and unlike in the male-dominated medical establishment, encourage collective care and knowledge. Taking the lead in the red state race to make The Handmaid's Tale a documentary, South Carolina Republicans have introduced a bill that would impose the death penalty on women who get abortions. The Idaho House State Affairs Committee moved forward a bill on Friday that would make it a felony crime to transport or recruit a minor for an abortion without parental consent. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Documentary shows how women ran underground abortion network before Roe v. Wade ruling, according to a 2019 BuzzFeed essay written by Allan Weiland. The US government just took two big steps on abortion. Jane was born first as a continuation of Booths referral service, and then as a counseling service. But their lawyer, Jo-Ann Wolfson, had a plan to keep delaying the court proceedings because she knew that the Supreme Court was hearing a case about another Jane Roe v. Wade. Especially now. Released in 2018, Just after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, Reversing Roe examines how the abortion debate became more heated than ever before. U.S. lawmakers began a wide-ranging two-year investigation into U.S. strategic competition with China Tuesday night, with testimony from Chinese human rights activists and former U.S. national . The development of medication abortion has vastly changed the landscape. DORRIE BARRON: I was petrified. Columbia/SONY, Inc. Anita Bryant Orange Juice Advertisement The film tells the story of a group of Chicago women who in the late 1960s and early 1970s helped pregnant people access abortions. They say that between 1968 and 1973, they provided free or low-cost abortions to more than 11,000 women. And all of a sudden, they were gone. Detailing the decades-long abortion debate, these docs give context to the historic Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. Republican. N. ADAM WATSON The assurance, the trust, the respect I got when I tell you they changed my life, they changed my life., She added, holding back tears, When I saw women caring about women it was a whole new world for me., The Jane Collective is estimated to have provided around 11,000 abortions from 1969 to 1973. They each were charged with eleven counts of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion. Member states are obliged to protect and uphold the rights to life, health, privacy, liberty and security, along with freedoms from torture and inhumane, cruel or degrading treatment. The USs role as a leader on the world stage does not exempt the country from these obligations in fact, it should require them to do more, said a representative from the Global Justice Center, which is one of the signatories. It uses medicine or surgery to remove the embryo or fetus and placenta from the uterus. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. We knew that some would be injured. COLLEEN HAMILTON, LYNN AND LOUIS WOLFSON II Educational DVDs of The Abortion Divideare available from ShopPBS for Teachers. Finally the filmmakers took out a newspaper ad in The Chicago Reader. Screenings come with free resources, including the official ABORTION TALKS dialogue guide by Essential Partners. Although these doctors are followed by constant threats of violence, these providers compassionately assist women who have to make the decision to terminate advanced, and often wanted, pregnancies. At the center of two separate symbolic victories for pro-choice and pro-life advocates, McCorvey makes a deathbed confession that she was paid by anti-abortion groups like Operation Rescue to speak out against abortion later in life. In the 2020 documentary AKA Jane Roe, the original anonymous plaintiff of Roe v. Wade, now known to be Norma McCorvey, speaks out about her 1995 decision to condemn abortion. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images). Apr. That context could have strengthened the documentarys larger political message about civil disobedience as an effective solution to institutional failure. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BURNETT HONORS COLLEGE, RUTH JENSEN-FORBELL The abortion debate has long dominated political discourse on Capitol Hill, particularly in recent years. The complexion changed, noted Marie Leaner, one of the only Black women in the collective. Eventually, the Janes learned to perform the procedure themselves. New HBO documentary 'The Janes' examines pre-Roe v. Wade underground abortion network The group helped an estimated 11,000 women in Chicago get access to safe, affordable abortions in the late. Fifty years ago, Floridas Legislative Investigative Committee, led by Senator Charley Johns sought to remove homosexuals from Florida's state universities. Pregnant women seeking abortions in Chicago had few options before 1973, when the Supreme Court codified the right to have an abortion in Roe v. Wade. Both projects wrapped up this month. RICHARD HARRISON "The Janes" is streaming on HBO Max. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The. These courageous leaders risked their personal safety and professional livesto meet secretly for six years under the guidance of Essential Partners co-founder Laura R. Chasin and mediator Susan Podziba. Served with the US Army in the Philippines in World War II. Here is a partial list of stations that will air The Committee. They spoke all of three sentences to me the entire time. They each were charged with eleven counts of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion, and each faced up to 110 years in prison. Dorrie Barron tells us what it was like for her to get an abortion before the Janes and Roe v. Wade came along. Nobody wants to spend an hour on [Interstate] 95. The limitations included performing abortions with no formal medical training. But finding women who actually obtained abortions from the Janes was more difficult. The Committee is a documentary film about the little-known Florida Legislative Investigative Committee of the State Legislature from 1956-1965. These Documentaries Show How We Got Here. While most of the Janes were white, middle-class women, most of those they served were low-income Latinas and Black women. The class sought out interviews with experts who could speak with authority on the Johns Committee or the current state of LGBTQ affairs in the state of Florida. For decades, underground networksaround the world from El Salvador to Poland to Mexico to right here in the United States have been and are assisting pregnant people obtain the abortion care that they need. Judith Arcana was one of them. Before there was Roe V. Wade, there was Jane, and the HBO documentary The Janes (on Crave in Canada at 9:00 p.m. After helping organize Black voters in Mississippi, she turned her activism to women with unwanted pregnancies. And how they are designed, to maintain the white-supremacist patriarchy, means that they will continue to harm and criminalize women, queer and trans and racially marginalized people no matter what the law says. And many private . The documentary begins with a cautionary tale. FRONTLINEs latest documentary, "The Abortion Divide," paints a portrait of the complicated, personal issues surrounding abortion. Inspired by Depression-era photographer Walker Evans whose iconic work documented rural poverty on behalf of the Interior and Agriculture departments the committee assigned itself some creative extra credit: producing a documentary movie. BOB GRAHAM This fall, Himes, a former Wall Street banker, won an eighth term as Connecticuts 4th District representative in Congress. Many of them hadnt even told the stories to their families or their friends, so this was a big move for them, Lessin said. This documentary, accompanied by dozens of in-depth interviews published as part of the FRONTLINE Transparency Project, examined then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells decades-long campaign to transform the nations highest court and its profound implications. If you do not see your local station listed here, we urge you to contact them and ask them to air this film. Two new films tell the story. These documentaries offer context on how America reached this moment. O n the day Angela Saini talks to me from her book-lined study in New York, the patriarchy is hard at work all over the world. How the Supreme Courts Conservative Majority Came to Be. The documentary also reported on the increase in clinic invasions and threats. 1970. House Bill 4006 repeals the 1931 law, which states it's illegal for any individual, mainly doctors, to assist . Drawing on a landmark FRONTLINE film from the 1980s, the documentary takes a look at both sides of the abortion divide in a community still embroiled in the conflict. That is, until May 1972, when two women went to the police to report the collective, after attending a counseling appointment with their sister-in-law, who was seeking an abortion. Used by permission, Cover From Newsweek, June 6,1977, IBT MEDIA This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. So, Mike trained the Janes to perform abortions themselves. Directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg, the film documents how even conservative presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush supported abortion rights, which changed by 2018 when Republican politicians continued to use anti-abortion as an organizing cause and voting incentive for citizens. Over the course of 16 months, beginning last July, the Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth conducted a dozen hearings in Washington and several more in locations around the country, addressing a range of issues from education to housing, labor unions, small business support, infrastructure, social programs and tax policy.