1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:17,209 --> 00:00:19,250 DORIE BARRON: I had no other options. 4 00:00:19,334 --> 00:00:20,876 I wanted it over with, 5 00:00:21,709 --> 00:00:23,417 and I didn't care how it was done. 6 00:00:23,500 --> 00:00:24,751 I was that desperate. 7 00:00:27,292 --> 00:00:29,918 An acquaintance said, "Here's a phone number," 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,292 and it was the Mob. 9 00:00:33,250 --> 00:00:35,417 They had to talk in code. 10 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:37,000 They said, "Do you want a Cadillac, 11 00:00:37,083 --> 00:00:40,167 a Chevrolet, or a Rolls-Royce?" 12 00:00:41,709 --> 00:00:44,959 The Chevy was the cheapest, 500 dollars. 13 00:00:45,042 --> 00:00:48,083 Um, a Cadillac was something like 750, 14 00:00:48,167 --> 00:00:50,417 and if you wanted the Rolls-Royce, 15 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:53,125 and we're talking about the '60s here, 16 00:00:53,209 --> 00:00:55,292 it was a thousand dollars. 17 00:00:55,375 --> 00:00:58,792 That's what the Mob charged for an abortion. 18 00:00:58,876 --> 00:01:01,417 I said, "Well, I think I-- I want a Chevrolet," 19 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:03,250 and they go, "Okay, fine, well", 20 00:01:03,334 --> 00:01:05,751 you know, we'll see you at this address 21 00:01:05,834 --> 00:01:06,959 "with your money." 22 00:01:07,834 --> 00:01:09,542 -(CRICKETS CHIRPING) -(NEON BUZZING) 23 00:01:09,626 --> 00:01:11,876 DORIE: It was not a familiar part of town. 24 00:01:13,584 --> 00:01:16,000 I went to the room that I was assigned... 25 00:01:17,792 --> 00:01:20,209 and I sat on the bed and I waited. 26 00:01:22,334 --> 00:01:24,500 The next thing you know, 27 00:01:24,584 --> 00:01:26,792 there's four of them, there are three men and a woman, 28 00:01:26,876 --> 00:01:28,834 and then they brought another young woman with them 29 00:01:28,918 --> 00:01:31,709 who also needed, uh, an abortion. 30 00:01:33,083 --> 00:01:34,417 I was petrified. 31 00:01:36,083 --> 00:01:39,334 They spoke all of three sentences to me the entire time. 32 00:01:40,918 --> 00:01:42,667 "Where's the money?" 33 00:01:42,751 --> 00:01:44,792 "Lie back and do as I tell you." 34 00:01:46,250 --> 00:01:48,626 "Get in the bathroom." That was it. 35 00:01:50,626 --> 00:01:54,250 I was just laying there trying to, you know, get my breath, 36 00:01:54,334 --> 00:01:55,542 and I knew I was bleeding, 37 00:01:55,626 --> 00:02:00,792 and all of a sudden, they were gone. They just left. 38 00:02:00,876 --> 00:02:03,000 Two young women out in the middle of nowhere 39 00:02:03,083 --> 00:02:05,125 in a motel, bleeding. 40 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:09,083 If I had stayed in that room, I'd be dead. 41 00:02:12,125 --> 00:02:15,459 When we both were able to, an hour or two later... 42 00:02:16,959 --> 00:02:18,375 stand up without being dizzy, 43 00:02:18,459 --> 00:02:21,042 and then we could get out the door, 44 00:02:21,125 --> 00:02:24,209 find a cab, she went her way, I went mine. 45 00:02:24,292 --> 00:02:25,334 And that was it. 46 00:02:26,292 --> 00:02:29,042 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 47 00:04:01,292 --> 00:04:03,834 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪ 48 00:04:03,918 --> 00:04:04,959 (SIREN WAILING) 49 00:04:05,042 --> 00:04:06,542 JUDITH ARCANA: In the state of Illinois, 50 00:04:06,626 --> 00:04:08,751 and most of the rest of the nation, 51 00:04:08,834 --> 00:04:10,834 abortion was illegal. 52 00:04:11,626 --> 00:04:14,125 It was not medical practice. 53 00:04:14,209 --> 00:04:16,834 It was simply a crime. 54 00:04:16,918 --> 00:04:22,042 ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 55 00:04:27,125 --> 00:04:32,959 We were very aware of the fact that women were suffering 56 00:04:33,042 --> 00:04:34,709 in a variety of ways 57 00:04:34,792 --> 00:04:37,751 because of abortion being against the law. 58 00:04:37,834 --> 00:04:42,709 Women did awful things out of fear and desperation. 59 00:04:42,792 --> 00:04:45,375 We knew that some would be injured, 60 00:04:45,459 --> 00:04:47,209 some would die. 61 00:04:47,292 --> 00:04:49,626 Many people around them, including children 62 00:04:49,709 --> 00:04:52,834 that they already had, would suffer. 63 00:04:53,834 --> 00:04:56,834 So, we thought, "We can be of use. 64 00:04:56,918 --> 00:04:59,584 You need an abortion, we'll help you. 65 00:04:59,667 --> 00:05:02,167 Call this number and ask for Jane." 66 00:05:03,542 --> 00:05:07,375 KATIE: Jane was an outrageous undertaking 67 00:05:07,459 --> 00:05:09,959 by a lot of smart women. 68 00:05:10,042 --> 00:05:14,667 Traveling under the radar of the Chicago Mafia 69 00:05:14,751 --> 00:05:18,209 and Chicago Police Department. 70 00:05:18,292 --> 00:05:19,751 That was a case where 71 00:05:19,834 --> 00:05:24,209 men's underestimating women's abilities 72 00:05:24,292 --> 00:05:25,959 worked very well for us. 73 00:05:27,167 --> 00:05:28,667 MARIE LEANER: As a member of Jane, 74 00:05:28,751 --> 00:05:30,667 I knew the risk I was taking. 75 00:05:30,751 --> 00:05:33,500 I knew that it was possible that I could go to jail 76 00:05:33,584 --> 00:05:34,918 for what I was doing. 77 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,459 Um, but at the time, I was-- I could care less. 78 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:42,375 MARTHA SCOTT: Until I was arrested, 79 00:05:42,459 --> 00:05:44,459 I figured it wouldn't make any difference. 80 00:05:44,542 --> 00:05:46,334 You know, I'd be fine. 81 00:05:46,417 --> 00:05:48,209 ELEANOR OLIVER: If you start getting serious 82 00:05:48,292 --> 00:05:52,083 and start worrying about all these little details, 83 00:05:52,167 --> 00:05:53,959 you won't get anything done! 84 00:05:54,667 --> 00:05:56,500 You won't get anything done. 85 00:05:56,584 --> 00:05:59,876 PEACHES: That was the beauty of Chicago, I think. 86 00:05:59,959 --> 00:06:02,292 It was a town where people did stuff. 87 00:06:02,375 --> 00:06:05,751 (CAR HORNS HONKING) 88 00:06:06,500 --> 00:06:08,542 (TRAIN TRACKS RUMBLING) 89 00:06:09,834 --> 00:06:12,042 A lot of things were going on in Chicago 90 00:06:12,125 --> 00:06:15,709 that made it, uh, politics seem very real, 91 00:06:15,792 --> 00:06:16,959 or, you know, 92 00:06:17,042 --> 00:06:19,542 what was happening in the country very immediate. 93 00:06:20,375 --> 00:06:22,250 I wouldn't say I went to Chicago 94 00:06:22,334 --> 00:06:24,834 with a particular interest in abortion. 95 00:06:24,918 --> 00:06:26,751 PROTESTER: Every woman should have a sign. 96 00:06:26,834 --> 00:06:27,792 Please pick them up. 97 00:06:27,876 --> 00:06:29,626 SHEILA: Like other women in Jane, 98 00:06:29,709 --> 00:06:32,375 we came to the service from other things, 99 00:06:32,459 --> 00:06:36,667 the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. 100 00:06:36,751 --> 00:06:38,250 POLICE OFFICER: Don't block the sidewalk! 101 00:06:38,334 --> 00:06:40,000 It was around us, you know? 102 00:06:40,083 --> 00:06:43,083 You couldn't not pay attention to what was going on. 103 00:06:43,167 --> 00:06:46,334 (INDISTINCT SHOUTING, CHANTING) 104 00:06:46,417 --> 00:06:49,125 You smell like pigs, that's why we don't want you! 105 00:06:49,209 --> 00:06:51,083 Pigs! 106 00:06:51,167 --> 00:06:53,083 MARIE: At the open housing demonstrations 107 00:06:53,167 --> 00:06:55,334 on the southwest side of Chicago, 108 00:06:55,417 --> 00:06:59,292 racists were lining the streets ready to throw bottles. 109 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,459 Your mother's a whore! 110 00:07:03,250 --> 00:07:04,584 Your mother's a whore! 111 00:07:04,667 --> 00:07:06,709 MARIE: I said, "Here's an opportunity 112 00:07:06,792 --> 00:07:09,584 for me to take a stand in defining who am I 113 00:07:09,667 --> 00:07:11,792 as a person, what do I stand for?" 114 00:07:11,876 --> 00:07:14,167 (INDISTINCT JEERING AT MARCHERS) 115 00:07:14,250 --> 00:07:15,918 I still have a scar on my arm 116 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,876 from where one of the slivers of bottles hit me. 117 00:07:18,959 --> 00:07:21,417 OFFICER: Just keep moving! Just keep moving! 118 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:25,500 I can assure you that the hatred and the hostility here 119 00:07:25,584 --> 00:07:27,959 are really deeper than what I've seen 120 00:07:28,042 --> 00:07:29,876 in Alabama and Mississippi. 121 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:33,042 REV. PATRICIA NOVICK-RABY: People were throwing bags of shit at us, 122 00:07:33,125 --> 00:07:36,959 grabbing women's earrings and pulling them out of their ears. 123 00:07:37,042 --> 00:07:39,709 Throwing firecrackers from trees. 124 00:07:39,792 --> 00:07:42,000 -(EXPLOSION BOOMS) -PROTESTER: Run, run, run! Run! 125 00:07:42,083 --> 00:07:43,667 I was afraid all the time. 126 00:07:43,751 --> 00:07:45,959 (INDISTINCT SHOUTS) 127 00:07:46,042 --> 00:07:50,375 But, you know, I was a warrior for justice. 128 00:07:50,459 --> 00:07:53,584 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 129 00:07:57,083 --> 00:08:00,292 HEATHER BOOTH: I had started at the University of Chicago, 130 00:08:00,375 --> 00:08:03,459 and I joined the Freedom Summer Project. 131 00:08:03,542 --> 00:08:07,417 I went to Mississippi to support the voter registration effort. 132 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:09,125 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 133 00:08:09,209 --> 00:08:11,542 (PROTESTER SHOUTING) 134 00:08:11,626 --> 00:08:13,834 HEATHER: And during that summer, 135 00:08:13,918 --> 00:08:16,250 I learned that sometimes you have to stand up 136 00:08:16,334 --> 00:08:18,876 to illegitimate authority. 137 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:21,042 And sometimes there are unjust laws 138 00:08:21,125 --> 00:08:22,626 that need to be challenged. 139 00:08:23,375 --> 00:08:26,918 (BELL TOLLING) 140 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,959 HEATHER: I came back to campus, 141 00:08:30,125 --> 00:08:33,167 and then a friend of mine 142 00:08:33,250 --> 00:08:35,209 was raped at knifepoint in her bed 143 00:08:35,292 --> 00:08:36,834 in off-campus housing. 144 00:08:39,459 --> 00:08:42,292 I went with her to Student Health, 145 00:08:42,375 --> 00:08:45,792 and she was given a lecture on her promiscuity, 146 00:08:46,292 --> 00:08:48,250 was told that 147 00:08:48,334 --> 00:08:51,626 Student Health didn't cover gynecological exams. 148 00:08:52,250 --> 00:08:56,209 And I was outraged. 149 00:08:56,292 --> 00:08:58,667 Women were at a total disadvantage 150 00:08:58,751 --> 00:09:01,500 when it came to our reproductive rights 151 00:09:01,584 --> 00:09:04,500 and our own medical rights and our-- 152 00:09:04,584 --> 00:09:07,667 just our personal rights. 153 00:09:07,751 --> 00:09:09,292 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 154 00:09:09,375 --> 00:09:14,292 JUDITH: Women didn't have the power to make decisions. 155 00:09:14,375 --> 00:09:17,500 You had to be married to get a diaphragm. 156 00:09:17,584 --> 00:09:21,542 When the pill came in, you had to be married 157 00:09:21,626 --> 00:09:23,542 to get a prescription for pills. 158 00:09:24,918 --> 00:09:28,417 If you weren't married, you were out of luck. 159 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:33,334 Contraceptives were not widely, freely, openly available. 160 00:09:34,334 --> 00:09:36,167 ABBY: When I went to college, 161 00:09:36,250 --> 00:09:40,751 I was told, "Go to Woolworths, get a five-dollar ring", 162 00:09:40,834 --> 00:09:43,417 put it on your left, fourth finger... 163 00:09:44,584 --> 00:09:45,751 then tell the doctor 164 00:09:45,834 --> 00:09:48,834 that your name is Mrs. Somebody-or-Another 165 00:09:48,918 --> 00:09:50,500 "and you needed birth control." 166 00:09:52,042 --> 00:09:53,459 Just insane. 167 00:09:56,292 --> 00:09:57,542 HEATHER: I became more engaged 168 00:09:57,626 --> 00:10:00,709 on women's issues, but I don't remember 169 00:10:00,792 --> 00:10:04,500 any real discussion about abortion, 170 00:10:04,584 --> 00:10:10,083 until a friend told me that his sister was pregnant 171 00:10:10,834 --> 00:10:12,709 and was nearly suicidal. 172 00:10:12,792 --> 00:10:14,876 That she wasn't ready to have a child 173 00:10:14,959 --> 00:10:18,042 and was looking for a doctor to perform an abortion, 174 00:10:18,125 --> 00:10:19,792 and could I help out? 175 00:10:19,876 --> 00:10:22,459 I started to ask around. 176 00:10:24,459 --> 00:10:25,834 I went to the doctors 177 00:10:25,918 --> 00:10:29,209 who were in the medical arm of the civil rights movement, 178 00:10:29,292 --> 00:10:33,000 and they directed me to a Dr. T.R.M. Howard. 179 00:10:33,083 --> 00:10:35,876 DR. T.R.M. HOWARD: The Mississippi White Citizens' Council 180 00:10:35,959 --> 00:10:40,042 is exerting tremendous economic pressure 181 00:10:40,125 --> 00:10:43,542 upon the Negro people of the state of Mississippi. 182 00:10:43,626 --> 00:10:45,834 HEATHER: He had been a civil rights activist 183 00:10:45,918 --> 00:10:47,125 in Mississippi... 184 00:10:47,209 --> 00:10:48,334 ...the physical violence... 185 00:10:48,417 --> 00:10:51,876 HEATHER: ...until he stood up against 186 00:10:51,959 --> 00:10:56,167 the murder of Emmett Till. 187 00:10:56,250 --> 00:10:59,751 And then his name appeared on a Klan death list 188 00:10:59,834 --> 00:11:01,459 and he came to Chicago. 189 00:11:02,792 --> 00:11:05,459 He set up a clinic on 63rd Street. 190 00:11:06,792 --> 00:11:09,167 I contacted him by phone. 191 00:11:09,250 --> 00:11:10,834 He was very responsive. 192 00:11:10,918 --> 00:11:14,042 He said he would take care of it. And.... 193 00:11:16,209 --> 00:11:18,000 he was good to his word. 194 00:11:22,459 --> 00:11:25,584 Word spread,- and someone else called. 195 00:11:25,667 --> 00:11:28,876 I put that person in touch with Dr. Howard, 196 00:11:29,626 --> 00:11:31,709 and then word spread again. 197 00:11:31,792 --> 00:11:33,167 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 198 00:11:33,250 --> 00:11:36,375 HEATHER: And so, it only dawned on me over time 199 00:11:36,459 --> 00:11:38,834 how big an issue this was. 200 00:11:40,417 --> 00:11:42,667 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 201 00:11:44,542 --> 00:11:46,626 -(CRICKETS CHIRPING) -(DOGS BARKING) 202 00:11:48,542 --> 00:11:50,083 EILEEN: It was at the end of school, 203 00:11:50,167 --> 00:11:52,042 so there weren't many kids in the dorm. 204 00:11:53,042 --> 00:11:54,959 There was a girl down the hall. 205 00:11:55,042 --> 00:11:57,459 We weren't friends, she was a little older. 206 00:11:57,542 --> 00:12:00,167 She knocked on the door and said she was in trouble, 207 00:12:00,250 --> 00:12:01,959 and could I help her? 208 00:12:02,042 --> 00:12:05,042 So I went down to her room, and there was blood everywhere. 209 00:12:06,542 --> 00:12:08,167 "She said, "I had an abortion 210 00:12:08,250 --> 00:12:10,000 and I'm bleeding and I'm really scared. 211 00:12:10,083 --> 00:12:11,375 "Can you call the doctor?" 212 00:12:13,083 --> 00:12:15,083 You know, there was one phone in the hallway. 213 00:12:16,876 --> 00:12:20,125 So, I went into the hallway and called the doctor. 214 00:12:20,209 --> 00:12:22,500 He said, "How much is she bleeding?" 215 00:12:22,584 --> 00:12:25,918 I don't know. I said, "Well, she's... 216 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,709 I'd say it's pretty bad." 217 00:12:28,792 --> 00:12:32,000 He said, "Put her feet up, go get ice, 218 00:12:32,083 --> 00:12:33,667 and call me back in two hours." 219 00:12:33,751 --> 00:12:36,083 So, I got on my bike, I went and got ice, 220 00:12:36,167 --> 00:12:38,167 brought it back, cleaned up her room. 221 00:12:38,250 --> 00:12:41,125 She said, "Don't tell anybody. Don't tell my boyfriend." 222 00:12:41,209 --> 00:12:43,334 And I realized, "Oh, my God, how scary. 223 00:12:43,417 --> 00:12:44,792 She's all by herself." 224 00:12:46,751 --> 00:12:48,125 I saw her like the next day and... 225 00:12:48,209 --> 00:12:50,083 -(BICYCLE BELL RINGS) -...she had stopped bleeding, 226 00:12:50,167 --> 00:12:52,334 the ice did it, the elevating the legs. 227 00:12:52,417 --> 00:12:53,542 It worked. 228 00:12:53,626 --> 00:12:55,459 So that was good. 229 00:12:55,542 --> 00:12:57,918 -TIA LESSIN: That must've been scary for you. -It was re-- 230 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,834 Well, plus I was... high. (LAUGHS) 231 00:13:00,918 --> 00:13:03,125 Which was true. You know, 'cause this was the end of school. 232 00:13:03,209 --> 00:13:05,334 We're sitting around smoking some dope, and I'm like, "What?" 233 00:13:05,417 --> 00:13:06,792 Well, that got me out of it really quick. 234 00:13:06,876 --> 00:13:08,584 All of a sudden I'm riding my bike in the night 235 00:13:08,667 --> 00:13:10,167 going, "Oh, my God, I have to, like, 236 00:13:10,250 --> 00:13:11,792 not be this way anymore." 237 00:13:11,876 --> 00:13:14,709 So, it was-- It was scary, and it was so... 238 00:13:16,459 --> 00:13:17,876 (SIGHS) 239 00:13:17,959 --> 00:13:21,000 It just stayed with me, because it seemed so wrong 240 00:13:21,083 --> 00:13:22,417 that this was going on. 241 00:13:25,542 --> 00:13:27,459 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 242 00:13:28,792 --> 00:13:30,500 DR. ALLAN WEILAND: I was a medical student 243 00:13:30,584 --> 00:13:32,167 at Cook County Hospital. 244 00:13:33,292 --> 00:13:36,250 What was seared into my-- into my brain is 245 00:13:36,334 --> 00:13:39,959 what desperate people will do 246 00:13:40,042 --> 00:13:44,876 when they think they have no other choice. 247 00:13:47,876 --> 00:13:49,667 Women would come in 248 00:13:49,751 --> 00:13:52,042 with some type of a complication, 249 00:13:52,125 --> 00:13:54,876 often a horrendous injury... 250 00:13:56,167 --> 00:14:00,209 as a result of an illegal abortion. 251 00:14:00,292 --> 00:14:06,375 Women would use objects to try to disrupt the pregnancy, 252 00:14:06,459 --> 00:14:08,167 which perforated the uterus, 253 00:14:08,250 --> 00:14:11,834 perforated the bladder, perforated the intestines. 254 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:15,334 There were chemical means. 255 00:14:15,417 --> 00:14:18,792 I recall one woman who tried carbolic acid. 256 00:14:20,834 --> 00:14:23,000 She had horrific burns. 257 00:14:25,375 --> 00:14:29,584 We would see 15 to 20 people a day. 258 00:14:29,667 --> 00:14:31,459 They either went to the operating room, 259 00:14:31,542 --> 00:14:34,209 or they went up to the Septic Abortion Ward. 260 00:14:34,292 --> 00:14:37,792 And the Septic Abortion Ward was full every day. 261 00:14:39,375 --> 00:14:42,959 KATHLEEN KENNEDY: I just remember walking into the unit 262 00:14:43,042 --> 00:14:47,042 and observing those patients there. 263 00:14:47,125 --> 00:14:49,876 Nineteen years old, young girls... 264 00:14:51,667 --> 00:14:53,751 either self-induced or somebody did it, 265 00:14:53,834 --> 00:14:55,042 and why can't we save them, 266 00:14:55,125 --> 00:14:57,417 or why can't we do something more for them? 267 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,792 One girl, I remember the doctor saying, 268 00:15:01,876 --> 00:15:04,375 "There's nothing more we can do for her." 269 00:15:06,417 --> 00:15:09,042 Here's this beautiful young girl, 270 00:15:09,125 --> 00:15:11,125 and nobody there, and she's dying. 271 00:15:12,459 --> 00:15:15,918 She never woke up. I still see her face. 272 00:15:18,709 --> 00:15:23,500 ALLAN: I called the morgue every week that I was on that ward, 273 00:15:23,584 --> 00:15:25,459 because somebody had died. 274 00:15:40,542 --> 00:15:42,375 HEATHER: There were increasing numbers of women 275 00:15:42,459 --> 00:15:45,292 coming to me. Mostly it was students. 276 00:15:45,375 --> 00:15:50,500 Over time, it expanded to other people in Chicago. 277 00:15:50,584 --> 00:15:55,083 After a few years, I lost contact with Dr. Howard. 278 00:15:55,167 --> 00:15:56,751 He wasn't answering my calls. 279 00:15:58,375 --> 00:16:02,626 I only learned later that he had been arrested. 280 00:16:03,959 --> 00:16:06,959 I started again on a search. 281 00:16:07,042 --> 00:16:12,959 Did any of the doctors I knew know anyone else to refer me to? 282 00:16:13,042 --> 00:16:18,709 And finally, I got the name of someone named Mike. 283 00:16:18,792 --> 00:16:20,584 MIKE: When I first learned it, 284 00:16:20,667 --> 00:16:25,000 I was helping this guy from Detroit. 285 00:16:25,083 --> 00:16:27,792 He started on-- He was a surgeon, 286 00:16:27,876 --> 00:16:30,626 a real surgeon, he used to operate every day. 287 00:16:30,709 --> 00:16:34,209 He would come in on the weekends. 288 00:16:34,292 --> 00:16:37,000 For years, I watched him. 289 00:16:37,083 --> 00:16:39,500 I stood behind him, I watched him, 290 00:16:39,584 --> 00:16:42,209 I handed him the tools. 291 00:16:42,292 --> 00:16:46,209 And then he said, "Come here. You do it." 292 00:16:47,417 --> 00:16:51,834 He taught me the most important thing is, be gentle. 293 00:16:51,918 --> 00:16:55,125 And so, it wasn't a very hard thing to learn. 294 00:16:57,209 --> 00:17:01,209 And then after I learned it, I didn't need him anymore. 295 00:17:02,334 --> 00:17:06,626 ♪ (SECRETIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 296 00:17:08,792 --> 00:17:12,209 I thought it was probably Mob-connected, 297 00:17:12,292 --> 00:17:14,584 but that may have been my own imagination. 298 00:17:15,834 --> 00:17:18,375 Mike sent his associate. 299 00:17:18,459 --> 00:17:22,167 We met at a Walgreens that was downtown in Chicago. 300 00:17:23,876 --> 00:17:26,083 I told her what all the arrangements had been 301 00:17:26,167 --> 00:17:29,751 with Dr. Howard, and they agreed to the terms. 302 00:17:36,709 --> 00:17:38,834 Even talking about performing an abortion 303 00:17:38,918 --> 00:17:41,709 was a conspiracy to commit a felony. 304 00:17:41,792 --> 00:17:43,876 I was worried about being arrested. 305 00:17:43,959 --> 00:17:45,751 I didn't want to be arrested. 306 00:17:47,834 --> 00:17:50,918 We were aware of the Red Squad, 307 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,626 the division of the Chicago police 308 00:17:52,709 --> 00:17:56,292 that would monitor social change, 309 00:17:56,375 --> 00:17:59,667 civil rights and movement activists. 310 00:18:01,876 --> 00:18:06,209 -♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ -(TYPEWRITER CLACKING) 311 00:18:07,542 --> 00:18:10,209 We were all being watched. 312 00:18:10,292 --> 00:18:13,459 There were police who sat in front of our building. 313 00:18:13,542 --> 00:18:16,292 Most of the building was filled with radicals. 314 00:18:16,375 --> 00:18:20,000 You might say even communist revolutionaries. 315 00:18:20,083 --> 00:18:21,167 (CAR HORN HONKING) 316 00:18:22,584 --> 00:18:24,751 REV. PATRICIA: My husband, Al Raby, 317 00:18:24,834 --> 00:18:28,918 was a leader in the Chicago civil rights movement. 318 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:30,709 We each had our own police tail. 319 00:18:32,334 --> 00:18:34,792 One day, I forgot my keys... 320 00:18:36,209 --> 00:18:40,209 and so I had my tail call his tail 321 00:18:40,292 --> 00:18:43,375 so he would go home and let me in the house. 322 00:18:46,459 --> 00:18:49,250 (TYPEWRITER CLACKING) 323 00:18:49,334 --> 00:18:52,626 MICHAEL: The anti-war movement was under heavy surveillance. 324 00:18:52,709 --> 00:18:54,125 TIA: Do you think your phones were tapped? 325 00:18:54,209 --> 00:18:57,083 -At that point? -Absolutely. They-- they should have been. 326 00:18:57,167 --> 00:19:01,334 I was representing young men who were subject to the draft 327 00:19:01,417 --> 00:19:03,042 for the Vietnam War. 328 00:19:03,125 --> 00:19:07,125 The way they accumulated bodies for the war 329 00:19:07,209 --> 00:19:12,209 was abysmal and disgusting and illegal. 330 00:19:13,083 --> 00:19:15,876 We are tired of this dirty war. 331 00:19:15,959 --> 00:19:17,334 (EXPLOSION) 332 00:19:17,417 --> 00:19:20,000 DRAFT PROTESTER: We want to withdraw our participation from it. 333 00:19:20,083 --> 00:19:24,375 Every night, you could watch the war on television. 334 00:19:24,459 --> 00:19:25,500 (RADIO CHATTER) 335 00:19:25,584 --> 00:19:27,334 JUDITH: It was a presence in our lives. 336 00:19:27,417 --> 00:19:28,542 (PROTESTERS SHOUTING) 337 00:19:28,626 --> 00:19:32,250 MICHAEL: It was 1968, and then hell broke out. 338 00:19:36,250 --> 00:19:37,751 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 339 00:19:40,876 --> 00:19:45,125 ♪ (MARCHING BAND MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 340 00:19:49,083 --> 00:19:50,375 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 341 00:19:50,459 --> 00:19:52,542 I spent the whole convention in the National Guard 342 00:19:52,626 --> 00:19:54,000 in front of the Hilton. 343 00:19:54,083 --> 00:19:58,250 Mayor Daley wanted some tough coppers down there. 344 00:19:58,334 --> 00:20:01,709 DIANE STEVENS: When the convention came to Chicago, 345 00:20:01,792 --> 00:20:05,250 I knew I had to go see what this was all about. 346 00:20:05,334 --> 00:20:07,500 I was part of the youth movement. 347 00:20:07,584 --> 00:20:09,709 I thought the whole world was gonna change. 348 00:20:09,792 --> 00:20:10,918 I really did. 349 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 350 00:20:13,959 --> 00:20:15,959 HEATHER: It was a beautiful sunny day. 351 00:20:16,042 --> 00:20:18,918 We took a picnic with some friends. 352 00:20:20,042 --> 00:20:22,292 There were a lot of speeches going on. 353 00:20:22,375 --> 00:20:24,292 (INDISTINCT SPEECH OVER MICROPHONE) 354 00:20:24,375 --> 00:20:27,375 And we were sitting on a hill above Grant Park. 355 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:29,626 And while we're sitting there... 356 00:20:29,709 --> 00:20:31,292 -(WEAPON FIRING) -(SCREAMING) 357 00:20:31,375 --> 00:20:33,876 -HEATHER: ...the first tear gas canister was lobbed in. -(CROWD SCREAMING) 358 00:20:33,959 --> 00:20:36,083 SINGER: Kick out the jams, motherfucker! 359 00:20:36,167 --> 00:20:38,626 HEATHER: And then we see the police starting to charge us. 360 00:20:38,709 --> 00:20:40,959 ♪ ("KICK OUT THE JAMS" BY MC5 PLAYING) ♪ 361 00:20:41,042 --> 00:20:42,542 ♪ I'm gonna ♪ 362 00:20:42,626 --> 00:20:44,083 ♪ I'm gonna kick 'em out! ♪ 363 00:20:44,167 --> 00:20:46,417 -(CROWD MEMBER SCREAMS) -♪ Yeah! ♪ 364 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:49,709 (PROTESTERS JEERING AT POLICE) 365 00:20:49,792 --> 00:20:53,459 ♪ Well, I feel pretty good And I guess that I could ♪ 366 00:20:53,542 --> 00:20:56,542 ♪ Get crazy now, baby ♪ 367 00:20:56,626 --> 00:20:59,918 ♪ 'Cause we all got in tune And when the dressing room ♪ 368 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,292 ♪ Got hazy, now baby... ♪ 369 00:21:01,375 --> 00:21:03,667 DORIE: They saw the youngsters as against God 370 00:21:03,751 --> 00:21:06,667 and everything decent. I was in shock. 371 00:21:06,751 --> 00:21:09,667 The cops going in there with just... 372 00:21:09,751 --> 00:21:12,167 going crazy beating the kids. 373 00:21:12,250 --> 00:21:14,083 ♪ And let me Kick out the jam... ♪ 374 00:21:14,167 --> 00:21:16,083 SGT. TED O'CONNOR: At one point, somebody raised 375 00:21:16,167 --> 00:21:18,083 the Viet Cong flag 376 00:21:18,167 --> 00:21:22,459 in front of combat veterans of three wars. 377 00:21:22,542 --> 00:21:25,250 And the combat veterans of three wars proceeded to beat 378 00:21:25,334 --> 00:21:28,125 the living daylights out of everybody. 379 00:21:28,209 --> 00:21:32,709 -♪ (ROCK MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ -(INDISTINCT CLAMOR) 380 00:21:38,792 --> 00:21:41,626 (PROTESTER SCREAMING) 381 00:21:41,709 --> 00:21:43,709 ♪ Can't get enough Miss McKenzie... ♪ 382 00:21:43,792 --> 00:21:47,250 PEACHES: It reinforced our negative feelings 383 00:21:47,334 --> 00:21:53,250 about government, certainly about Richard Daley, 384 00:21:53,334 --> 00:21:55,083 the police, as well. 385 00:21:55,167 --> 00:21:58,042 ♪ Make you wanna keep-a-rockin' Till morning comes... ♪ 386 00:21:58,125 --> 00:22:01,209 It was a great radicalization for me. 387 00:22:01,292 --> 00:22:03,334 ♪ And let me kick out the jam ♪ 388 00:22:03,417 --> 00:22:05,167 (SIREN WAILING) 389 00:22:05,250 --> 00:22:07,584 ♪ Yes, kick out the jams ♪ 390 00:22:07,667 --> 00:22:09,626 ♪ I done kicked 'em out! ♪ 391 00:22:09,709 --> 00:22:11,209 ♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪ 392 00:22:11,292 --> 00:22:13,584 It was a dark moment for Chicago. 393 00:22:22,751 --> 00:22:25,250 MICHAEL: I was helping bail out people 394 00:22:25,334 --> 00:22:27,125 who had been arrested. 395 00:22:27,209 --> 00:22:29,500 We were called "radical lawyers," 396 00:22:30,626 --> 00:22:32,083 attorneys who were my age 397 00:22:32,167 --> 00:22:35,918 with a great desire to impede the war progress. 398 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,834 We also, of course, were very interested 399 00:22:37,918 --> 00:22:40,334 in race relations and civil rights, 400 00:22:40,417 --> 00:22:44,542 and no interest whatsoever in women's rights. 401 00:22:44,626 --> 00:22:46,459 That was not a part of the deal. 402 00:22:47,959 --> 00:22:51,083 SHEILA: I was interested in the anti-war movement, 403 00:22:51,167 --> 00:22:52,167 but it seemed to me 404 00:22:52,250 --> 00:22:53,834 that mostly the guys were running it 405 00:22:53,918 --> 00:22:56,542 and they felt it was about them. 406 00:22:56,626 --> 00:23:00,709 So, it wasn't going to become my cause 407 00:23:00,792 --> 00:23:03,792 except in a helper role. 408 00:23:03,876 --> 00:23:06,083 LAURA KAPLAN: This is the way the world was. 409 00:23:06,167 --> 00:23:08,500 It was always the guys. 410 00:23:08,584 --> 00:23:11,209 It was always, forever, the guys. 411 00:23:11,292 --> 00:23:13,125 -♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 412 00:23:13,209 --> 00:23:14,292 My question! 413 00:23:14,375 --> 00:23:17,751 LAURA: With their macho stuff going on. 414 00:23:17,834 --> 00:23:22,959 (OVERLAPPING CLAMOR) 415 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:26,500 LAURA: It seemed very male-dominated. 416 00:23:26,584 --> 00:23:30,876 There was a lot of testosterone and a lot of lecturing. 417 00:23:30,959 --> 00:23:32,751 The human people and the Vietnamese people... 418 00:23:32,834 --> 00:23:36,542 ...we go forth as human beings around the world. 419 00:23:36,626 --> 00:23:38,500 MARIE: I respected the Black Panther Party, 420 00:23:38,584 --> 00:23:41,626 and to this day I respect what they provided 421 00:23:41,709 --> 00:23:45,000 for the Black community, a sense of dignity and respect. 422 00:23:45,083 --> 00:23:48,500 Fred Hampton and Bobby Rush were friends of mine. 423 00:23:48,584 --> 00:23:51,500 But I didn't necessarily agree with the party's attitude 424 00:23:51,584 --> 00:23:55,125 that women were to serve the men in the party. 425 00:23:55,209 --> 00:23:56,918 Which is why I never joined the party, 426 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,876 'cause I couldn't abide by those practices. 427 00:23:59,959 --> 00:24:03,375 (PROTESTERS CHANTING) 428 00:24:03,459 --> 00:24:07,125 HEATHER: At one meeting on my campus, an SDS meeting, 429 00:24:07,209 --> 00:24:09,459 Students for a Democratic Society, 430 00:24:09,542 --> 00:24:13,292 they were going to discuss the so-called "woman question." 431 00:24:13,375 --> 00:24:16,626 While I'm talking, one of the guys says, 432 00:24:16,709 --> 00:24:18,125 "Ah, shut up." 433 00:24:19,792 --> 00:24:21,959 And I was so shocked. 434 00:24:22,042 --> 00:24:25,459 So, I tapped the shoulder of every woman in the group, 435 00:24:25,542 --> 00:24:27,667 and I said, "Let's leave this meeting." 436 00:24:27,751 --> 00:24:30,417 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 437 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:31,667 WOMAN: Welcome. 438 00:24:33,792 --> 00:24:36,876 ABBY: The Chicago Women's Liberation Union 439 00:24:36,959 --> 00:24:38,042 blossomed up. 440 00:24:38,125 --> 00:24:41,042 There's something wrong when a woman can't get a job 441 00:24:41,125 --> 00:24:42,334 without typing skills. 442 00:24:42,417 --> 00:24:43,667 (APPLAUSE) 443 00:24:43,751 --> 00:24:46,876 If there's one thing that should be extended to the ladies, 444 00:24:46,959 --> 00:24:48,000 it's the right to talk. 445 00:24:48,083 --> 00:24:49,918 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 446 00:24:53,417 --> 00:24:54,500 (PROTESTERS CHANTING) 447 00:24:54,584 --> 00:24:57,292 REV. PATRICIA: We sat in restaurants downtown 448 00:24:57,375 --> 00:24:59,626 because they were all-male restaurants, 449 00:24:59,709 --> 00:25:01,542 and were taken out by the police. 450 00:25:01,626 --> 00:25:03,459 -ACTIVIST: You have no intention... -BAR OWNER: No. 451 00:25:03,542 --> 00:25:05,167 ACTIVIST: ...of changing your policy of segregated facilities? 452 00:25:05,250 --> 00:25:07,083 -Is that correct, sir? -If you women are that hard up 453 00:25:07,167 --> 00:25:10,792 for a glass of beer, I'll be glad to serve you at the bar. 454 00:25:10,876 --> 00:25:13,000 -CATCALLER 1: Whoo! -CATCALLER 2: Lookin' good, gal. 455 00:25:13,083 --> 00:25:15,250 REV. PATRICIA: We drove cars downtown 456 00:25:15,334 --> 00:25:17,751 -to pick up the downtown secretaries... -(WOLF WHISTLE) 457 00:25:17,834 --> 00:25:21,083 REV. PATRICIA: ...because they were being catcalled going to work. 458 00:25:21,167 --> 00:25:22,542 WOMAN: Beat it! 459 00:25:25,375 --> 00:25:28,542 It just touched a nerve 460 00:25:28,626 --> 00:25:31,083 so deeply in me. 461 00:25:31,167 --> 00:25:36,292 I really wanted to go there. I wanted more. 462 00:25:36,375 --> 00:25:38,125 I wanted to be involved. 463 00:25:38,209 --> 00:25:41,209 And abortion seemed to me the frontline. 464 00:25:41,292 --> 00:25:45,918 Women were literally dying because they were women. 465 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,876 Whether or not people believe in abortion, 466 00:25:48,959 --> 00:25:53,375 abortions, illegal abortions, are being performed. 467 00:25:53,459 --> 00:25:56,751 And those abortions must be taken out of the hands 468 00:25:56,834 --> 00:25:59,083 -of quacks and butchers. -(APPLAUSE) 469 00:25:59,167 --> 00:26:01,209 ELEANOR: There were women's groups organized 470 00:26:01,292 --> 00:26:03,709 all over the country that were working on abortion, 471 00:26:04,876 --> 00:26:07,167 but they were working on publicizing it, 472 00:26:07,250 --> 00:26:10,751 legalizing it, collecting data on it. 473 00:26:10,834 --> 00:26:13,000 I just wanted to get something done. 474 00:26:13,834 --> 00:26:15,334 Because I'd had one, I guess, 475 00:26:15,417 --> 00:26:18,209 and I knew what women were up against. 476 00:26:19,751 --> 00:26:23,209 We had been married less than a year. 477 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,584 He was in graduate school, 478 00:26:25,667 --> 00:26:29,876 and I was the sole income for the two of us. 479 00:26:29,959 --> 00:26:32,792 And there I was, pregnant. 480 00:26:32,876 --> 00:26:37,375 At that time, you could not work as a pregnant woman. 481 00:26:37,459 --> 00:26:40,083 They saw it as a terrible responsibility 482 00:26:40,167 --> 00:26:43,167 to have a pregnant woman sitting behind a typewriter. 483 00:26:43,250 --> 00:26:44,167 (TYPEWRITER CLACKING) 484 00:26:44,250 --> 00:26:46,667 ELEANOR: And forget trying to find a job 485 00:26:46,751 --> 00:26:48,751 if you had small children at home. 486 00:26:52,417 --> 00:26:53,792 A friend of mine drove me. 487 00:26:55,876 --> 00:27:00,500 I wore little white gloves, a suit with a skirt. 488 00:27:02,375 --> 00:27:04,584 I was told ahead of time, 489 00:27:04,667 --> 00:27:08,167 "He might ask you for a kiss. He might ask you to-- 490 00:27:08,250 --> 00:27:10,792 Uh, he might ask to hug you or cuddle you 491 00:27:10,876 --> 00:27:13,209 or... (MUMBLES) I don't know, whatnot all." 492 00:27:13,292 --> 00:27:15,584 I was terrified. 493 00:27:17,834 --> 00:27:21,334 I got on the table, my feet went into the stirrups. 494 00:27:21,417 --> 00:27:25,959 It was all done without anesthesia, 495 00:27:26,042 --> 00:27:30,500 because I had to be able to get up and walk out of there 496 00:27:30,584 --> 00:27:32,459 as if nothing had happened. 497 00:27:33,250 --> 00:27:34,334 And I did. 498 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,125 HEATHER: By 1968, I was in graduate school, 499 00:27:46,209 --> 00:27:48,083 working full-time. 500 00:27:48,167 --> 00:27:51,667 I had a lot of other movement obligations. 501 00:27:51,751 --> 00:27:53,250 And now I was pregnant, 502 00:27:53,334 --> 00:27:56,209 going to be taking care of a child. 503 00:27:56,292 --> 00:27:58,751 And the number of women coming through 504 00:27:58,834 --> 00:28:00,417 was more and more, 505 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:03,751 and it was much more than I could handle myself. 506 00:28:03,834 --> 00:28:05,834 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 507 00:28:08,167 --> 00:28:11,667 HEATHER: I'd go to meetings on any subject. 508 00:28:11,751 --> 00:28:13,334 At the end of the meeting, I'd say, 509 00:28:13,417 --> 00:28:16,959 "If you're interested in working on abortion, come see me." 510 00:28:18,542 --> 00:28:20,542 ELEANOR: And that's where I met Heather. 511 00:28:20,626 --> 00:28:25,209 We were all very disillusioned with politics as usual. 512 00:28:26,417 --> 00:28:28,167 JODY: I think a lot of us realized there 513 00:28:28,250 --> 00:28:30,792 how un-liberated we were... 514 00:28:32,083 --> 00:28:34,167 and we wanted to do something about it. 515 00:28:34,250 --> 00:28:37,250 Heather Booth said, "I know what you can do. 516 00:28:37,334 --> 00:28:39,417 You can do abortion counseling." 517 00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:43,083 HEATHER: When I found about 12 or so women, 518 00:28:43,167 --> 00:28:47,292 we gathered together and went to Eleanor Oliver's house. 519 00:28:47,375 --> 00:28:49,751 JODY: We talked and talked and talked about it. 520 00:28:49,834 --> 00:28:53,876 So, we had our politics pretty well thought out. 521 00:28:53,959 --> 00:28:56,918 HEATHER: When everyone felt ready to take this on, 522 00:28:57,959 --> 00:29:00,667 I gave them whatever materials I had. 523 00:29:01,667 --> 00:29:04,918 And Jane, in effect, started. 524 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,000 It was pandemonium for maybe a minute and a half, 525 00:29:08,083 --> 00:29:12,584 and-- and then, uh, we got down to business. 526 00:29:12,667 --> 00:29:14,626 ♪ (LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 527 00:29:14,709 --> 00:29:17,500 SHEILA: We actually ran an ad constantly 528 00:29:17,584 --> 00:29:19,959 in the underground paper. 529 00:29:20,042 --> 00:29:22,000 ABBY: We had the phone numbers on posters 530 00:29:22,083 --> 00:29:25,334 and little tear-off things on bulletin boards 531 00:29:25,417 --> 00:29:26,584 around Chicago. 532 00:29:26,667 --> 00:29:28,751 -(PHONE RINGING) -"Pregnant? Call Jane." 533 00:29:30,083 --> 00:29:32,125 ELEANOR: We needed a telephone number 534 00:29:32,209 --> 00:29:33,626 for people to call. 535 00:29:33,709 --> 00:29:35,792 "I said, "Well, we can use my phone. 536 00:29:35,876 --> 00:29:38,959 But let's change it 537 00:29:39,042 --> 00:29:42,209 so that they don't ask for Eleanor. 538 00:29:42,292 --> 00:29:43,542 How about Jane? 539 00:29:43,626 --> 00:29:47,042 "Nobody's called Jane anymore, and it's a nice, simple name." 540 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:50,876 And that's where Jane came from. 541 00:29:50,959 --> 00:29:53,876 "If you have a message for the Olivers or for Jane," 542 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,375 please leave your name and number 543 00:29:55,459 --> 00:29:58,000 "and we will call you back." Like she lived there. 544 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,834 MICHAEL: Women who called Jane 545 00:30:00,918 --> 00:30:02,918 always wanted to hear back quickly. 546 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,375 They were desperate. They'd use that word 547 00:30:05,459 --> 00:30:06,959 more than once. 548 00:30:07,042 --> 00:30:09,500 JEANNE: There would always be one person 549 00:30:09,584 --> 00:30:12,542 who would tell you a lot of things, 550 00:30:12,626 --> 00:30:15,834 but she'd forget something absolutely vital. 551 00:30:15,918 --> 00:30:19,542 Either her name, or her telephone number. 552 00:30:20,209 --> 00:30:21,709 (TELEPHONE DIAL TONE) 553 00:30:21,792 --> 00:30:25,000 There was nothing you could do, you had no way to reach her. 554 00:30:29,459 --> 00:30:32,334 ELEANOR: One woman, she left a message on Jane, 555 00:30:32,417 --> 00:30:35,751 she said, "When you call me back," 556 00:30:35,834 --> 00:30:39,918 don't be alarmed if they answer 557 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:45,083 'Chicago Police Department' because that is where I work, 558 00:30:45,167 --> 00:30:47,876 "and I'm giving you my work number." 559 00:30:49,042 --> 00:30:53,417 I remember Jody saying, "We have a policewoman. 560 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:55,459 Who wants the policewoman?" 561 00:30:55,542 --> 00:31:00,209 And all of us just sat there, and I said, "I'll take her." 562 00:31:00,292 --> 00:31:01,375 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 563 00:31:03,959 --> 00:31:05,959 JUDITH: At my very first Jane meeting, 564 00:31:06,042 --> 00:31:10,375 the three-by-five index cards were being passed around 565 00:31:10,459 --> 00:31:14,334 and the information on those cards was the name 566 00:31:14,417 --> 00:31:18,834 and contact info, medical details, 567 00:31:18,918 --> 00:31:21,500 how far they were in the pregnancy, 568 00:31:21,584 --> 00:31:25,667 if there were any known complication possibilities. 569 00:31:26,876 --> 00:31:28,667 EILEEN: People were so trusting. 570 00:31:28,751 --> 00:31:31,125 They gave you their name, phone number. 571 00:31:31,209 --> 00:31:33,334 You're coming for an illegal abortion... 572 00:31:35,542 --> 00:31:38,167 and you're, you know, "I have two kids." 573 00:31:38,250 --> 00:31:40,792 I'm eight weeks along. Here's where I live. 574 00:31:40,876 --> 00:31:44,000 Here's my first and last name." (CHUCKLES) 575 00:31:44,083 --> 00:31:46,542 Five dollars, 75 dollars. 576 00:31:46,626 --> 00:31:48,334 People would tell you what they had. 577 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,083 Zero money. 578 00:31:50,918 --> 00:31:53,918 She's 21. She already has a kid. 579 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,250 This woman says she has a dollar. 580 00:31:56,334 --> 00:31:59,000 Here's one, says four dollars. 581 00:31:59,083 --> 00:32:02,167 EILEEN: We would hand around those cards at the meeting 582 00:32:02,250 --> 00:32:05,459 to match people up for counseling. 583 00:32:05,542 --> 00:32:08,042 "No, no, I can take that one. I don't have enough." 584 00:32:08,125 --> 00:32:10,500 You know, "I've got too many. I can't do that this week." 585 00:32:10,584 --> 00:32:12,834 And so, we would try to spread those out. 586 00:32:12,918 --> 00:32:17,834 Eight weeks, 18, and you go, "Okay, I can do that." 587 00:32:17,918 --> 00:32:20,083 Eighteen, 11 weeks. Great. 588 00:32:20,167 --> 00:32:24,876 Eleven weeks, lovely. Six weeks. Oh, and she's 19. Wow. 589 00:32:24,959 --> 00:32:27,459 Eight weeks, 22. This is great. 590 00:32:27,542 --> 00:32:33,334 Then you'd get somebody who was 16, 16 weeks... (LAUGHS) 591 00:32:33,417 --> 00:32:37,667 And you'd just be so grim, and it would go round and round. 592 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,042 DIANE: Gosh, the cards. 593 00:32:49,334 --> 00:32:52,292 You just, you know, your heart would be going out to them. 594 00:32:52,375 --> 00:32:54,876 They weren't just cards. They-- You knew they were people, 595 00:32:54,959 --> 00:32:56,918 and I knew they were women like me. 596 00:33:00,125 --> 00:33:02,751 I would probably counsel ten women a week. 597 00:33:04,083 --> 00:33:07,459 I would call the woman and invite her to my home. 598 00:33:08,834 --> 00:33:10,792 I would explain to her 599 00:33:10,876 --> 00:33:15,500 exactly what was gonna go on, in detail. 600 00:33:15,584 --> 00:33:19,292 This is something I contrast to my own abortion, 601 00:33:19,375 --> 00:33:22,667 in which no one ever explained a darn thing to me. 602 00:33:26,292 --> 00:33:29,751 LAURA: We had thought about, how would we like to be treated? 603 00:33:29,834 --> 00:33:33,709 What was worrisome for us in a medical situation? 604 00:33:35,334 --> 00:33:41,209 We knew that what makes you terrified is the not knowing. 605 00:33:41,292 --> 00:33:44,667 It wasn't just about what you're going to experience 606 00:33:44,751 --> 00:33:46,000 during the abortion. 607 00:33:46,083 --> 00:33:49,083 "This is what you're going to experience that whole day." 608 00:33:50,918 --> 00:33:53,083 Because it's scary enough 609 00:33:53,167 --> 00:33:55,584 that you're having an illegal abortion. 610 00:33:59,334 --> 00:34:03,000 JEANNE: Women would launch into these stories. 611 00:34:03,083 --> 00:34:05,292 "I have three children." "I have no more money." 612 00:34:05,375 --> 00:34:07,709 "My husband is leaving," or, "My husband is sick," 613 00:34:07,792 --> 00:34:10,042 or, "I don't have a husband." 614 00:34:10,125 --> 00:34:13,751 "I'm 17, I want to go to college and I've got this scholarship 615 00:34:13,834 --> 00:34:16,334 and if I don't do this now..." 616 00:34:16,417 --> 00:34:20,792 They were really cogent and important reasons, 617 00:34:20,876 --> 00:34:25,459 but we would really try to make clear to them 618 00:34:25,542 --> 00:34:28,709 they didn't have to justify themselves. 619 00:34:29,667 --> 00:34:31,626 Their reason for having an abortion 620 00:34:31,709 --> 00:34:33,500 was their reason. 621 00:34:35,375 --> 00:34:37,584 I was not there to pass judgment. 622 00:34:37,667 --> 00:34:39,334 (BIRDS CHIRPING) 623 00:34:39,417 --> 00:34:41,292 DIANE: After a counseling session, 624 00:34:41,375 --> 00:34:43,792 the woman would be given the address 625 00:34:43,876 --> 00:34:45,459 to what we called The Front. 626 00:34:46,626 --> 00:34:50,167 The Front was like a big waiting room. 627 00:34:50,250 --> 00:34:52,667 JEANNE: Sometimes women brought their kids. 628 00:34:52,751 --> 00:34:55,125 You could bring your sister-in-law, 629 00:34:55,209 --> 00:34:59,417 your husband, you could bring some moral support. 630 00:34:59,500 --> 00:35:02,334 And that really helped. 631 00:35:03,751 --> 00:35:07,834 DIANE: We would try to have refreshments, talk to them, 632 00:35:07,918 --> 00:35:10,542 try to keep a pleasant atmosphere 633 00:35:10,626 --> 00:35:14,000 for people that were probably terrified out of their minds. 634 00:35:15,667 --> 00:35:19,542 We had a place that we actually did abortions, 635 00:35:19,626 --> 00:35:21,834 imaginatively called The Place. 636 00:35:21,918 --> 00:35:24,334 So, The Place and The Front. 637 00:35:24,417 --> 00:35:25,834 ♪ (SECRETIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 638 00:35:25,918 --> 00:35:28,000 SHEILA: It was a two-part system. 639 00:35:28,083 --> 00:35:29,918 People would be waiting at The Front, 640 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,834 and then the driver would drive groups of women to The Place, 641 00:35:35,918 --> 00:35:38,792 and then afterwards drive them back. 642 00:35:42,292 --> 00:35:44,709 JEANNE: I ended up doing a lot of driving. 643 00:35:44,792 --> 00:35:49,292 In the morning, you would be introduced to a new car, 644 00:35:49,375 --> 00:35:51,500 somebody's family car... 645 00:35:52,792 --> 00:35:57,250 and you would have to drive it all day, like a taxi. 646 00:36:06,250 --> 00:36:08,792 I'd drive a little ways, 647 00:36:08,876 --> 00:36:11,584 and then I would park and ask for the money. 648 00:36:11,667 --> 00:36:14,542 And everybody would hand the money forward. 649 00:36:16,167 --> 00:36:17,500 LAURA: We would say to women, 650 00:36:17,584 --> 00:36:21,375 "Pay as much as you can, because that's going to help pay 651 00:36:21,459 --> 00:36:24,751 for the next person, who has less than you." 652 00:36:25,751 --> 00:36:26,751 We had to charge 653 00:36:26,834 --> 00:36:29,834 because it costs money to do abortions. 654 00:36:29,918 --> 00:36:31,751 And, certainly, in the days 655 00:36:31,834 --> 00:36:35,417 when the guy was doing the abortions, 656 00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:37,542 he was only doing them for the money. 657 00:36:40,250 --> 00:36:44,417 I was in construction for years. I was a union tuckpointer. 658 00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:46,209 I made a lot of money doing that. 659 00:36:46,292 --> 00:36:49,000 But with the abortions, we made... 660 00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:54,751 four, five, six times that amount of money, less work. 661 00:36:54,834 --> 00:36:57,209 And you would get real dirty as a tuckpointer, 662 00:36:57,292 --> 00:36:59,292 and I never got dirty doing it. 663 00:36:59,375 --> 00:37:02,292 So, it was... it was a step up for me. 664 00:37:04,042 --> 00:37:07,918 When I first met them, the ladies said, 665 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,334 "Here's how we're going to do it now." 666 00:37:10,417 --> 00:37:14,751 We're going to have customers that have the money. 667 00:37:14,834 --> 00:37:19,959 We're also going to have that don't have the money. 668 00:37:20,042 --> 00:37:22,792 The ones that don't have the money, 669 00:37:22,876 --> 00:37:25,083 "we're going to do that for nothing." 670 00:37:25,167 --> 00:37:29,417 "For nothing? Are you crazy? I'm not going to do it for--" 671 00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:30,918 "Yes, you are." 672 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,500 I think initially he thought we were ballbusters. 673 00:37:37,125 --> 00:37:40,083 He felt as though he was being pushed really hard 674 00:37:40,167 --> 00:37:43,292 by a whole bunch of girls. 675 00:37:43,375 --> 00:37:46,250 MIKE: I mean, I didn't understand it. 676 00:37:46,334 --> 00:37:52,542 It says in the Bible, a man is worthy of his labors, 677 00:37:52,626 --> 00:37:54,584 and there surely... 678 00:37:54,667 --> 00:38:00,542 that applies to abortionists, too. (LAUGHS) 679 00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:04,667 Oh, God. But it all worked out, you know. 680 00:38:04,751 --> 00:38:08,584 He said, "I thought abortions were like mink coats. 681 00:38:08,667 --> 00:38:10,834 Lots of women wanted them, 682 00:38:10,918 --> 00:38:13,792 but only some of them could afford one." 683 00:38:13,876 --> 00:38:16,000 I thought he was a blowhard. 684 00:38:16,083 --> 00:38:17,918 You know, sort of a con man 685 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,209 and a showman and a, uh... 686 00:38:22,292 --> 00:38:24,375 a wise guy. 687 00:38:24,459 --> 00:38:28,000 But I also thought he had a heart. 688 00:38:28,083 --> 00:38:31,125 MARTHA: He would make little jokes and put them at ease. 689 00:38:31,209 --> 00:38:33,918 "We're gonna do it together, and you'll see, 690 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,959 you'll be done before you know it." 691 00:38:37,417 --> 00:38:40,584 JUDITH: And he was highly skillful 692 00:38:40,667 --> 00:38:42,834 and treated the women well. 693 00:38:42,918 --> 00:38:47,667 I could see right away that his vibe, his sensibility, 694 00:38:47,751 --> 00:38:51,751 his way of being with them was good. 695 00:38:51,834 --> 00:38:53,459 It was a job. 696 00:38:54,709 --> 00:38:57,459 TIA: Mm-hmm. And you were good at it. 697 00:38:57,542 --> 00:38:59,250 Damn right. (CHUCKLES) 698 00:39:06,459 --> 00:39:07,751 EILEEN: There was an ad, 699 00:39:07,834 --> 00:39:09,959 "Pregnant? Need Help? Call Jane." 700 00:39:12,834 --> 00:39:15,375 I was about 21. 701 00:39:15,459 --> 00:39:20,292 I had tried birth control pills, and they made me really sick. 702 00:39:21,792 --> 00:39:23,417 That was really about the only thing 703 00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:25,751 besides, like, a diaphragm, 704 00:39:25,834 --> 00:39:29,542 which I had no clue how to use or where to get one. 705 00:39:31,792 --> 00:39:33,626 It was, like, a Friday morning, 706 00:39:33,709 --> 00:39:36,459 and it was really nice out, I remember. 707 00:39:39,542 --> 00:39:43,042 I took the L. I went by myself. 708 00:39:44,417 --> 00:39:46,584 I thought about the woman in college, 709 00:39:46,667 --> 00:39:49,584 her bleeding, and how scary it was, 710 00:39:50,209 --> 00:39:51,959 and how alone she was. 711 00:39:53,918 --> 00:39:56,751 (TRAIN TRACKS RUMBLING) 712 00:39:58,876 --> 00:40:00,500 EILEEN: It was in Hyde Park. 713 00:40:00,584 --> 00:40:03,542 A woman came in that was the driver, 714 00:40:03,626 --> 00:40:04,751 and she was pregnant. 715 00:40:04,834 --> 00:40:06,626 She was, like, seven months pregnant. 716 00:40:06,709 --> 00:40:09,792 She's driving people to get an illegal abortion, 717 00:40:09,876 --> 00:40:12,751 and I just thought that was so wonderful. 718 00:40:12,834 --> 00:40:15,959 The person who was doing the abortion came in. 719 00:40:16,042 --> 00:40:18,542 He explained exactly what he was doing. 720 00:40:18,626 --> 00:40:21,751 "This is going to hurt, but it won't hurt for long." 721 00:40:21,834 --> 00:40:25,959 "Try some deep breathing." Very reassuring. 722 00:40:27,751 --> 00:40:30,334 The doctors didn't do that in those days. 723 00:40:31,626 --> 00:40:33,751 Usually, they were very condescending, 724 00:40:33,834 --> 00:40:35,834 never told you anything about what you were taking 725 00:40:35,918 --> 00:40:37,667 or what was going on. 726 00:40:37,751 --> 00:40:40,667 It seemed so odd to me that it was illegal... 727 00:40:40,751 --> 00:40:43,167 (CHUCKLES) ...and yet it was the best medical experience 728 00:40:43,250 --> 00:40:44,292 I ever had. 729 00:40:45,667 --> 00:40:46,751 We knew we were good, 730 00:40:46,834 --> 00:40:50,751 and we knew we were going to do our best for them. 731 00:40:50,834 --> 00:40:53,542 But for the women coming through, 732 00:40:53,626 --> 00:40:56,334 they were putting their trust 733 00:40:56,417 --> 00:40:59,876 in somebody who was breaking the law, 734 00:40:59,959 --> 00:41:02,584 who they didn't know from Adam. 735 00:41:02,667 --> 00:41:05,751 We were doing something illegal and so were they, 736 00:41:05,834 --> 00:41:08,626 and you had to trust. 737 00:41:08,709 --> 00:41:11,918 Just like the Bob Dylan song, right? 738 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,459 "When you live outside the law, you must be honest." 739 00:41:14,542 --> 00:41:15,959 That's how we all felt. 740 00:41:16,709 --> 00:41:19,250 (TYPEWRITER CLACKING) 741 00:41:23,417 --> 00:41:26,500 The illegality was constantly there on our minds. 742 00:41:26,584 --> 00:41:27,834 ♪ (APPREHENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 743 00:41:27,918 --> 00:41:30,542 JODY: Imagine going to the drugstore 744 00:41:30,626 --> 00:41:35,334 and coming out with 500 syringes in your car 745 00:41:35,417 --> 00:41:38,834 and 500 ampoules of Ergotrate. 746 00:41:38,918 --> 00:41:41,584 And you know between the druggist 747 00:41:41,667 --> 00:41:42,584 and your house, 748 00:41:42,667 --> 00:41:45,000 you'd better not run any red lights. 749 00:41:46,292 --> 00:41:49,000 They were clandestine, they were underground. 750 00:41:49,083 --> 00:41:51,918 Each week, they planned different locations 751 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,334 for their activities. 752 00:41:54,167 --> 00:41:55,709 It was a moving target. 753 00:41:55,792 --> 00:41:57,709 JODY: We got so that we could set up 754 00:41:57,792 --> 00:42:00,000 to be a clinic in 15 minutes. 755 00:42:02,334 --> 00:42:06,125 And we could get out of there in five minutes if we had to. 756 00:42:07,792 --> 00:42:09,751 EILEEN: We had to find people to offer up 757 00:42:09,834 --> 00:42:11,542 their apartments for us. 758 00:42:11,626 --> 00:42:15,709 That was really a huge chore, 'cause who's gonna do that? 759 00:42:15,792 --> 00:42:17,292 "Oh yeah, sure, come and spend the day 760 00:42:17,375 --> 00:42:19,500 and do illegal abortions all day." 761 00:42:21,292 --> 00:42:24,167 MARIE: My roommate had to agree. 762 00:42:24,250 --> 00:42:27,250 We would allow our apartment to be used, 763 00:42:27,334 --> 00:42:29,500 whatever the consequences might be. 764 00:42:29,584 --> 00:42:32,834 I mean, it wasn't like I talked her into anything, 765 00:42:32,918 --> 00:42:35,375 but I-- I think. (LAUGHS) 766 00:42:35,459 --> 00:42:36,918 I had one friend who agreed to it, 767 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,792 but when she came home at five o'clock, we weren't done. 768 00:42:39,876 --> 00:42:42,000 And she got upset, but we weren't done! 769 00:42:42,918 --> 00:42:44,375 The day went on longer. 770 00:42:44,459 --> 00:42:48,751 So that-- you know, that person and I became not friends. (LAUGHS) 771 00:42:50,125 --> 00:42:51,918 PEACHES: It was very busy. 772 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,959 That was probably somewhat obvious to neighbors. 773 00:42:57,292 --> 00:42:59,709 Who knows what they thought was going on? 774 00:43:01,250 --> 00:43:03,292 WAYNE: Our home was used as a place 775 00:43:03,375 --> 00:43:05,584 the procedures were performed. 776 00:43:05,667 --> 00:43:08,834 My daughter Linda, when she was six years old, 777 00:43:08,918 --> 00:43:11,125 she would come home from school sometimes, 778 00:43:11,209 --> 00:43:15,167 walk in the door, and see women sitting in the living room. 779 00:43:15,250 --> 00:43:18,334 And then she says, "Oh, they're doing it today. 780 00:43:18,417 --> 00:43:21,959 "I'm going to go in my room and study." (LAUGHS) 781 00:43:22,042 --> 00:43:24,334 When they were like four and five years old, 782 00:43:24,417 --> 00:43:26,167 they would have their friends over. 783 00:43:26,250 --> 00:43:28,209 "And I would say, "Okay, now you can count to ten. 784 00:43:28,292 --> 00:43:29,626 Now, I want ten of this kind of pill, 785 00:43:29,709 --> 00:43:33,500 "and ten of this kind of pill, and fill these 50 boxes." 786 00:43:33,584 --> 00:43:36,959 I think that was good in developing good work habits. 787 00:43:37,042 --> 00:43:40,000 WAYNE: Our daughters understood not to talk about it, 788 00:43:40,083 --> 00:43:44,125 but they also understood it was just part of our life. 789 00:43:44,209 --> 00:43:45,626 (CHILDREN CHATTERING) 790 00:43:47,042 --> 00:43:49,584 JUDITH: I was married to a lawyer. 791 00:43:49,667 --> 00:43:53,375 He feared that his license might be endangered 792 00:43:53,459 --> 00:43:56,542 because of his knowledge 793 00:43:56,626 --> 00:43:59,459 of his wife's illegal activities. 794 00:43:59,542 --> 00:44:00,959 He was nervous. Rightly so. 795 00:44:01,042 --> 00:44:05,042 I mean, we were criminals, we were felons. 796 00:44:05,125 --> 00:44:07,042 -♪ (ENIGMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ -(PHONE RINGING) 797 00:44:07,125 --> 00:44:09,209 JUDITH: It's like 5:30, 6:00 in the morning. 798 00:44:09,292 --> 00:44:11,292 -(PHONE RINGING) -JUDITH: The phone rings. 799 00:44:12,626 --> 00:44:16,792 Michael answers it, says, "It's for Jane." 800 00:44:16,876 --> 00:44:21,500 I take the phone, and this woman who is in a panic 801 00:44:21,584 --> 00:44:25,459 starts telling me that she is in Grant Hospital, 802 00:44:25,542 --> 00:44:29,459 right across the street from where we live. 803 00:44:29,542 --> 00:44:32,292 Suddenly, a man gets on the phone 804 00:44:32,375 --> 00:44:34,417 and says, "We know where you are! 805 00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:36,751 We know who you are! We know what you've done!" 806 00:44:36,834 --> 00:44:38,667 I immediately slammed down the phone. 807 00:44:38,751 --> 00:44:40,584 We're out of bed in, like, seconds. 808 00:44:40,667 --> 00:44:42,292 We had to go into furious action 809 00:44:42,375 --> 00:44:45,375 and protect the information that we had. 810 00:44:45,459 --> 00:44:48,000 JUDITH: The answering machine, the beeper, cards. 811 00:44:48,083 --> 00:44:51,000 Michael said, "I'm putting all that stuff in my golf bag." 812 00:44:51,083 --> 00:44:53,500 I went down the stairs of the fire escape, 813 00:44:53,584 --> 00:44:55,626 -Judith went out the door. -(CAR ENGINE STARTS) 814 00:44:56,167 --> 00:44:57,334 Got in the car. 815 00:44:59,292 --> 00:45:02,334 JUDITH: We stopped at a gas station payphone, 816 00:45:02,417 --> 00:45:05,000 called Jody, told her what had happened. 817 00:45:05,959 --> 00:45:09,209 Jody said, "Oh, that's just a crank, 818 00:45:09,292 --> 00:45:11,667 doesn't mean anything, it's not real." 819 00:45:11,751 --> 00:45:13,042 Nothing fazed Jody. 820 00:45:14,417 --> 00:45:17,167 -(CAT MEOWS) -JUDITH: We went back and it was all quiet. 821 00:45:17,250 --> 00:45:19,125 So, this guy was just bluffing, 822 00:45:19,209 --> 00:45:21,417 which was exactly what Jody thought. 823 00:45:22,334 --> 00:45:24,417 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 824 00:45:27,042 --> 00:45:29,292 JODY: As far as society was concerned, 825 00:45:29,375 --> 00:45:30,626 we were scumbags. 826 00:45:30,709 --> 00:45:32,709 -RUTH: But we didn't-- -We were doing something bad, 827 00:45:32,792 --> 00:45:34,792 -but we didn't feel that way. -RUTH: We didn't feel that way. 828 00:45:34,876 --> 00:45:37,167 JODY: We felt that we were doing the right thing. 829 00:45:37,250 --> 00:45:38,417 Not only was there the need, 830 00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:42,709 but there was a philosophical obligation on our part, 831 00:45:42,792 --> 00:45:44,792 on somebody's part, to-- 832 00:45:44,876 --> 00:45:49,834 to disrespect a law that disrespected women. 833 00:45:51,125 --> 00:45:54,167 LAURA: Their role was very Mom and Pop. 834 00:45:54,626 --> 00:45:55,792 Mom and Dad. 835 00:45:56,751 --> 00:45:59,500 Ruth really ran the meetings, 836 00:45:59,584 --> 00:46:02,250 and Jody would be hanging in the doorway, 837 00:46:02,334 --> 00:46:06,125 chewing the eraser ends off one pencil after another. 838 00:46:06,209 --> 00:46:08,459 She was so incredibly intense. 839 00:46:09,626 --> 00:46:14,250 She was really nuts. You know? 840 00:46:14,334 --> 00:46:17,667 And, um... And it takes that kind of nuts. 841 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,792 MARTHA: Jody was the most charismatic person I ever knew. 842 00:46:22,876 --> 00:46:27,125 She was unrelenting in her support of the women. 843 00:46:27,209 --> 00:46:29,918 I think her own experience with abortion 844 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,542 so changed her life. 845 00:46:33,626 --> 00:46:37,584 She just didn't see this issue as political 846 00:46:37,667 --> 00:46:39,709 until her own experience. 847 00:46:41,459 --> 00:46:45,042 JODY: I felt like a prisoner of the medical system. 848 00:46:45,918 --> 00:46:47,876 I was very, very sick. 849 00:46:47,959 --> 00:46:51,751 I had cancer, and I had two children. 850 00:46:51,834 --> 00:46:53,125 And I got pregnant. 851 00:46:54,292 --> 00:46:56,083 I had a very difficult time, 852 00:46:56,167 --> 00:46:58,626 a terrible time, getting an abortion. 853 00:46:59,584 --> 00:47:00,876 I was in the hospital 854 00:47:00,959 --> 00:47:03,792 trying to get this legal abortion. 855 00:47:03,876 --> 00:47:06,542 It took ten days in the hospital, 856 00:47:06,626 --> 00:47:09,959 letters from almost a dozen doctors, 857 00:47:10,042 --> 00:47:12,542 before I finally got an abortion. 858 00:47:14,918 --> 00:47:16,834 The doctors were like kings back then. 859 00:47:18,167 --> 00:47:19,834 They made the decisions. 860 00:47:20,667 --> 00:47:22,542 You don't question a doctor. 861 00:47:24,375 --> 00:47:30,584 OB-GYNs were 95 percent male at that time. 862 00:47:31,959 --> 00:47:33,417 JODY: Somehow the medical profession, 863 00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:37,959 which is male-dominated, got control of women's bodies. 864 00:47:38,042 --> 00:47:40,542 I saw the fight as largely winning control 865 00:47:40,626 --> 00:47:42,709 back from the medical profession. 866 00:47:45,792 --> 00:47:47,584 I went to see my gynecologist, 867 00:47:47,667 --> 00:47:49,709 the person who had delivered my children. 868 00:47:50,334 --> 00:47:52,042 I was pregnant. 869 00:47:52,125 --> 00:47:55,626 And I said, "I really do not want this child." 870 00:47:56,459 --> 00:47:58,584 And my gynecologist said... 871 00:48:00,626 --> 00:48:02,918 "Well, I can't do anything for you. 872 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,959 But I can give you the name of someone who maybe can." 873 00:48:07,042 --> 00:48:09,500 And he gave me Jane's number. 874 00:48:09,584 --> 00:48:12,959 LAURA: A number of women said they'd gotten our name 875 00:48:13,042 --> 00:48:16,209 and phone number from their doctor. 876 00:48:16,292 --> 00:48:19,250 So, one of us would call the doctor 877 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:21,584 and say, "Hi, this is Jane. 878 00:48:21,667 --> 00:48:24,042 We noticed you've been referring, 879 00:48:24,125 --> 00:48:26,667 and we want to know if there's a way 880 00:48:26,751 --> 00:48:28,834 you can be of assistance to us?" 881 00:48:28,918 --> 00:48:30,918 And for the most part, they would say, 882 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,000 "Don't ever call me again." 883 00:48:35,918 --> 00:48:39,667 ELEANOR: We had a list, because we were always 884 00:48:39,751 --> 00:48:43,751 trying to find the doctor, or a person, 885 00:48:43,834 --> 00:48:48,167 who could perform a safe abortion. 886 00:48:49,167 --> 00:48:50,959 It was very difficult. 887 00:48:55,542 --> 00:48:58,584 MARTHA: You had to be pretty lucky to have an abortion 888 00:48:58,667 --> 00:49:01,167 by someone who didn't do you harm. 889 00:49:01,250 --> 00:49:05,125 Sometimes a doctor, sometimes an abortionist. 890 00:49:06,500 --> 00:49:09,042 You might get recommended into a situation 891 00:49:09,125 --> 00:49:13,250 that was really very unpleasant and even dangerous. 892 00:49:13,334 --> 00:49:16,459 You know, I have seen a lot of that stuff. 893 00:49:16,542 --> 00:49:20,125 These guys on Madison and Halsted, 894 00:49:20,209 --> 00:49:22,751 two brothers, they were like that, 895 00:49:22,834 --> 00:49:24,500 really mean. 896 00:49:25,918 --> 00:49:28,626 They would say, "That's part of the deal. 897 00:49:28,709 --> 00:49:31,876 You're gonna suck my cock after this is done. 898 00:49:31,959 --> 00:49:33,751 No? Get out." 899 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,209 It was more than you were lucky to find someone. 900 00:49:38,292 --> 00:49:40,375 You were lucky to have it be okay. 901 00:49:41,626 --> 00:49:43,876 Because it wasn't always okay. 902 00:49:43,959 --> 00:49:46,751 The fact is, women died all the time. 903 00:49:46,834 --> 00:49:49,000 Every once in a while, you'd read about it in the paper, 904 00:49:49,083 --> 00:49:50,751 but no one was taking that on as a cause. 905 00:49:50,834 --> 00:49:54,083 -(CHURCH BELL TOLLING) -MARTHA: Especially in a place like Chicago. 906 00:49:54,167 --> 00:49:55,500 Heavily Catholic city. 907 00:49:55,584 --> 00:49:59,375 Catholic Church had very strong feelings about abortion. 908 00:49:59,459 --> 00:50:02,876 ♪ (ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 909 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,125 DORIE: They said Chicago is the largest Catholic archdiocese 910 00:50:08,209 --> 00:50:09,584 outside of Europe. 911 00:50:10,709 --> 00:50:13,209 We went to Mass every morning at 5:30. 912 00:50:13,292 --> 00:50:15,375 So, after five years, I could say the Mass 913 00:50:15,459 --> 00:50:17,167 along with the priest in Latin. 914 00:50:18,125 --> 00:50:20,375 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 915 00:50:20,459 --> 00:50:23,375 JEANNE: Chicago is even more Catholic than it's Polish, 916 00:50:23,459 --> 00:50:24,500 than it's Irish. 917 00:50:25,709 --> 00:50:28,083 That was the whole political structure. 918 00:50:31,876 --> 00:50:33,334 CARDINAL PATRICK O'BOYLE: Certain lawyers 919 00:50:33,417 --> 00:50:35,709 and legislators and judges 920 00:50:35,792 --> 00:50:39,042 hasten to loosen the laws against abortion. 921 00:50:40,667 --> 00:50:41,834 A father... 922 00:50:42,626 --> 00:50:44,876 has no right to kill his babies 923 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,125 after they are born. 924 00:50:47,209 --> 00:50:50,751 Why should we suppose that a mother has a right 925 00:50:50,834 --> 00:50:54,167 to kill her babies before they are born? 926 00:50:57,334 --> 00:50:59,334 It's not a theological argument. 927 00:50:59,417 --> 00:51:01,042 It's a put-up job. 928 00:51:02,375 --> 00:51:04,167 I've had two abortions, 929 00:51:04,250 --> 00:51:05,250 and... 930 00:51:05,334 --> 00:51:07,542 I felt that God was with me, 931 00:51:07,626 --> 00:51:11,209 at my side, in all of these choices. 932 00:51:11,292 --> 00:51:14,584 That it was a God-given decision. 933 00:51:16,292 --> 00:51:21,083 To exclude women from ethical agency... 934 00:51:21,167 --> 00:51:23,959 (SCOFFS) ...excludes us from humanity, 935 00:51:24,042 --> 00:51:27,792 and it turns us into powerless sinners 936 00:51:27,876 --> 00:51:29,751 against our own selves. 937 00:51:30,417 --> 00:51:32,334 And you can't have that. 938 00:51:32,417 --> 00:51:34,334 ♪ (ENERGETIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 939 00:51:36,375 --> 00:51:37,834 REV. DONNA SCHAPER: As a graduate student 940 00:51:37,918 --> 00:51:40,500 at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, 941 00:51:40,584 --> 00:51:42,876 I was always looking for a part-time job. 942 00:51:44,334 --> 00:51:47,542 There was a sign on a bulletin board 943 00:51:47,626 --> 00:51:50,626 asking for people to do 944 00:51:50,709 --> 00:51:53,876 spiritual counseling about pregnancy. 945 00:51:53,959 --> 00:51:57,876 I thought "Oh, that sounds absolutely wonderful for me." 946 00:51:57,959 --> 00:51:59,918 REV. FINLEY SCHAEF: There are 37 clergymen 947 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:01,500 who are members of the service. 948 00:52:01,584 --> 00:52:03,125 REPORTER: What kinds of clergymen are these? 949 00:52:03,209 --> 00:52:05,000 Would you say they're all radical extremists, 950 00:52:05,083 --> 00:52:07,792 or could they be my parish minister, for example? 951 00:52:07,876 --> 00:52:11,792 Might be a minister or a rabbi anywhere in the Chicago area. 952 00:52:13,626 --> 00:52:15,751 RON HAMMERLE: The Clergy Consultation Service 953 00:52:15,834 --> 00:52:20,125 came out publicly in support of a woman's right to choose. 954 00:52:20,209 --> 00:52:22,042 Once the announcement was made, 955 00:52:22,125 --> 00:52:24,709 the phone lines never stopped ringing. 956 00:52:24,792 --> 00:52:28,042 RECORDED VOICE: This is the Chicago area Clergy Consultation Service 957 00:52:28,125 --> 00:52:29,542 on problem pregnancies. 958 00:52:29,626 --> 00:52:32,500 You need only take down the name and number 959 00:52:32,584 --> 00:52:35,876 of one of the four clergymen whose names will follow. 960 00:52:37,250 --> 00:52:40,792 DONNA: We were very, very busy. There was a lot of need. 961 00:52:42,584 --> 00:52:48,209 And in fact, Playboy solicited the Clergy Consultation Service, 962 00:52:49,375 --> 00:52:51,959 "and said, "We would like to give you some money. 963 00:52:52,042 --> 00:52:54,292 We think what you're doing is really good." 964 00:52:55,459 --> 00:52:58,292 And there were people who said we shouldn't take it, 965 00:52:58,375 --> 00:53:01,500 but mostly we just laughed our heads off 966 00:53:01,584 --> 00:53:04,167 -and said, "Yeah, let's do it." -♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 967 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,375 RON: In Chicago, the Clergy Service and Jane 968 00:53:09,459 --> 00:53:12,375 were parallel organizations. 969 00:53:12,459 --> 00:53:15,209 But the Clergy Service served women 970 00:53:15,292 --> 00:53:20,542 who had the economic means to travel for an abortion. 971 00:53:20,626 --> 00:53:24,709 In the early days, the referrals were made to England and Japan, 972 00:53:24,792 --> 00:53:26,292 Mexico and Puerto Rico. 973 00:53:27,375 --> 00:53:31,083 After the New York law went into effect, 974 00:53:31,167 --> 00:53:32,626 it changed everything. 975 00:53:32,709 --> 00:53:34,375 NEWS ANCHOR: In New York State today, 976 00:53:34,459 --> 00:53:37,042 the Senate passed the long-disputed abortion bill, 977 00:53:37,125 --> 00:53:39,459 a bill that would make abortion a matter to be decided 978 00:53:39,542 --> 00:53:41,918 between a woman and her doctor. 979 00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,667 RON: The Clergy Consultation Service began sending 980 00:53:45,751 --> 00:53:49,626 virtually all of our first trimester cases to New York. 981 00:53:50,667 --> 00:53:52,626 We were "brokering" 982 00:53:52,709 --> 00:53:55,209 something like 13 million dollars a year 983 00:53:55,292 --> 00:53:57,083 in airfare alone. 984 00:53:57,167 --> 00:54:00,751 I was trying to negotiate a group purchase plan 985 00:54:00,834 --> 00:54:02,334 with United Airlines. 986 00:54:04,167 --> 00:54:08,667 LAURA: When New York legalized abortion in 1970, 987 00:54:08,751 --> 00:54:10,876 that meant that all those... 988 00:54:11,959 --> 00:54:14,334 white college students, 989 00:54:14,417 --> 00:54:16,959 who could see themselves getting on a plane 990 00:54:17,042 --> 00:54:19,000 and flying to New York and getting an abortion 991 00:54:19,083 --> 00:54:21,459 and flying back, did that. 992 00:54:22,417 --> 00:54:24,500 (JET ENGINES ROARING) 993 00:54:31,334 --> 00:54:34,834 That's what really changed the demographics 994 00:54:34,918 --> 00:54:36,876 of who called Jane. 995 00:54:39,542 --> 00:54:41,542 It was really the lower middle class 996 00:54:41,626 --> 00:54:44,334 and the poor women who were stuck. 997 00:54:44,417 --> 00:54:48,626 If you have other kids, if you don't have the money, 998 00:54:48,709 --> 00:54:50,250 it was hard to do. 999 00:54:51,500 --> 00:54:54,209 A decent one-bedroom apartment in Chicago 1000 00:54:54,292 --> 00:54:57,584 was going for about 150 dollars a month. 1001 00:54:57,667 --> 00:55:01,542 Illegal abortions cost between 500 and 600 dollars. 1002 00:55:02,834 --> 00:55:05,709 Women of color were just kind of on the outs, 1003 00:55:05,792 --> 00:55:07,542 because they couldn't afford it. 1004 00:55:07,626 --> 00:55:09,959 And to me, that was just outrageous. 1005 00:55:11,792 --> 00:55:14,542 My husband Al routinely 1006 00:55:14,626 --> 00:55:16,334 would collect money for Jane 1007 00:55:16,417 --> 00:55:19,500 in paper shopping bags at taverns 1008 00:55:19,584 --> 00:55:23,459 and laundries and other places along 53rd Street 1009 00:55:23,542 --> 00:55:25,000 in the Black community. 1010 00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,751 Word of us spread on the South Side 1011 00:55:29,834 --> 00:55:32,042 and the West Side pretty rapidly. 1012 00:55:33,709 --> 00:55:35,709 MARIE: There were more women of color. 1013 00:55:37,542 --> 00:55:40,417 Not necessarily on the team of people who provided 1014 00:55:40,500 --> 00:55:42,626 the abortion services. 1015 00:55:42,709 --> 00:55:45,918 But the people who consumed the services, 1016 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:47,626 the complexion changed. 1017 00:55:48,542 --> 00:55:50,834 The women who came through Jane 1018 00:55:50,918 --> 00:55:53,459 were very, very, very different... 1019 00:55:54,500 --> 00:55:57,542 from the women who were in Jane. 1020 00:55:57,626 --> 00:56:00,876 We would always say to women, "You could join us." 1021 00:56:00,959 --> 00:56:03,667 But we didn't get a lot of takers. 1022 00:56:03,751 --> 00:56:05,834 So, it was a concern for us. 1023 00:56:06,667 --> 00:56:08,709 PEACHES: I was pretty ignorant 1024 00:56:08,792 --> 00:56:12,167 of the class issues. 1025 00:56:12,250 --> 00:56:15,500 I-- I wonder how, um, offensive 1026 00:56:15,584 --> 00:56:19,250 we-- we may have unintentionally been. 1027 00:56:19,334 --> 00:56:22,167 LAURA: We weren't an exclusively white group, 1028 00:56:22,250 --> 00:56:25,792 but we were primarily white middle-class women. 1029 00:56:25,876 --> 00:56:28,125 Of course it felt complicated. 1030 00:56:28,209 --> 00:56:31,751 We tried to do it with as much respect 1031 00:56:31,834 --> 00:56:34,918 and understanding as we could. 1032 00:56:36,751 --> 00:56:39,417 MARIE: They were providing services to women. 1033 00:56:39,500 --> 00:56:41,584 In particular, women who couldn't-- 1034 00:56:41,667 --> 00:56:46,125 poor women who couldn't afford, um, an abortion. 1035 00:56:46,209 --> 00:56:50,334 And I just thought that was such a revolutionary act. 1036 00:56:50,417 --> 00:56:55,250 And I-- I couldn't see myself sitting on the sidelines. 1037 00:56:57,167 --> 00:57:00,834 When I opened the door and they walked through, 1038 00:57:00,918 --> 00:57:03,292 I said, "I'll take care of you." 1039 00:57:03,375 --> 00:57:06,000 I felt really good being able to do that. 1040 00:57:11,250 --> 00:57:14,042 (CHILDREN CHATTERING) 1041 00:57:16,417 --> 00:57:21,167 I grew up right there at 2419 West Madison, 1042 00:57:21,250 --> 00:57:24,959 across the street from the Black Panther headquarters, 1043 00:57:25,042 --> 00:57:26,792 on the West Side. 1044 00:57:28,125 --> 00:57:30,918 When I was about 14, 1045 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,626 one of my chums, she came to me 1046 00:57:33,709 --> 00:57:36,542 and said that she was pregnant... 1047 00:57:37,584 --> 00:57:39,292 and... 1048 00:57:39,375 --> 00:57:41,626 that she couldn't have the child. 1049 00:57:41,709 --> 00:57:43,876 I don't think I judged her, 1050 00:57:43,959 --> 00:57:46,459 I just wanted to be able to help. 1051 00:57:48,542 --> 00:57:49,792 Being so young, 1052 00:57:49,876 --> 00:57:54,167 we probably didn't even really understand what an abortion was. 1053 00:57:55,209 --> 00:57:57,209 She asked me, would I go with her, 1054 00:57:57,292 --> 00:57:58,667 and I said yes. 1055 00:58:01,834 --> 00:58:03,500 We cut school. 1056 00:58:03,584 --> 00:58:05,751 And we took the bus. 1057 00:58:08,792 --> 00:58:12,250 I recall going into an apartment. 1058 00:58:12,334 --> 00:58:15,918 It was a lot of people. There was television going. 1059 00:58:16,626 --> 00:58:18,000 Kids were there. 1060 00:58:18,083 --> 00:58:20,834 It was like being in a doctor's waiting room, 1061 00:58:20,918 --> 00:58:23,250 only it was more homey, you know, like. 1062 00:58:23,334 --> 00:58:24,500 (CAT PURRING) 1063 00:58:24,584 --> 00:58:25,751 CRYSTAL O.: All I saw 1064 00:58:25,834 --> 00:58:29,500 were white women running it, in charge. 1065 00:58:30,459 --> 00:58:32,918 They described the whole procedure. 1066 00:58:33,792 --> 00:58:35,209 We just... 1067 00:58:35,292 --> 00:58:37,918 We lost it. We cried. 1068 00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,959 Uh, two little girls, we cried. 1069 00:58:43,584 --> 00:58:46,334 She decided that she was going to do it. 1070 00:58:49,959 --> 00:58:52,417 So, I waited. 1071 00:58:54,292 --> 00:58:58,876 They gave me this book, Our Bodies, Ourselves. 1072 00:58:58,959 --> 00:59:02,834 I guess that's where I got my sex education from. (LAUGHS) 1073 00:59:02,918 --> 00:59:07,000 'Cause I did read that book from beginning to... (CHUCKLES) 1074 00:59:07,083 --> 00:59:08,417 Yeah. 1075 00:59:10,417 --> 00:59:12,626 They had called a taxi. 1076 00:59:13,709 --> 00:59:15,667 We went on home. 1077 00:59:18,334 --> 00:59:21,792 I can't say she was ashamed of it, 1078 00:59:21,876 --> 00:59:26,250 but I don't think we ever discussed 1079 00:59:26,334 --> 00:59:28,250 the fact that that happened. 1080 00:59:30,083 --> 00:59:32,083 ♪ ("CAN'T YOU HEAR ME CALLIN'" BY IKE & TINA TURNER PLAYING) ♪ 1081 00:59:32,167 --> 00:59:34,876 We have three demands, to repeal all anti-abortion laws, 1082 00:59:34,959 --> 00:59:37,209 to repeal restrictive contraceptive laws, 1083 00:59:37,292 --> 00:59:38,918 and to end forced sterilization. 1084 00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:40,542 The things that happen to women 1085 00:59:40,626 --> 00:59:42,834 under the existing system are so bad, 1086 00:59:42,918 --> 00:59:45,417 and so criminal, that we simply have to get rid of these laws. 1087 00:59:45,500 --> 00:59:48,542 These women are driven into the hands of criminal, 1088 00:59:48,626 --> 00:59:50,959 illegal abortionists and die. 1089 00:59:51,959 --> 00:59:55,709 ♪ Can't you hear me callin'? ♪ 1090 00:59:55,792 --> 00:59:59,667 ♪ I'm right next to you ♪ 1091 00:59:59,751 --> 01:00:03,375 ♪ You can Hear me callin', honey ♪ 1092 01:00:03,459 --> 01:00:07,125 ♪ If you really Really want to... ♪ 1093 01:00:07,209 --> 01:00:10,459 Destroying a life, a human life, is murder. 1094 01:00:10,542 --> 01:00:14,876 There are many of us here who feel that fetal death is murder. 1095 01:00:14,959 --> 01:00:17,792 INTERVIEWER: Perhaps the current law is unconstitutional. 1096 01:00:17,876 --> 01:00:21,209 Well, then the place to test that is in the courts. 1097 01:00:21,292 --> 01:00:23,667 ALAN GUTTMACHER: Mortalities are largely among the Negro 1098 01:00:23,751 --> 01:00:25,375 and the Puerto Rican, and not the white 1099 01:00:25,459 --> 01:00:27,292 in this community, from abortion, why? 1100 01:00:27,375 --> 01:00:29,500 Because a white woman has the padded pocketbook 1101 01:00:29,584 --> 01:00:31,250 to pay for a safe abortion. 1102 01:00:31,334 --> 01:00:33,751 Now, is this the kind of thing you want to continue? 1103 01:00:33,834 --> 01:00:36,542 Every woman in every circumstance 1104 01:00:36,626 --> 01:00:37,876 will suffer, 1105 01:00:37,959 --> 01:00:40,000 but it will mean untold suffering 1106 01:00:40,083 --> 01:00:41,918 to Black and Puerto Rican women. 1107 01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:43,876 We cannot let that happen. 1108 01:00:43,959 --> 01:00:47,209 (PROTESTERS CHANTING) Now! Yes! 1109 01:00:47,292 --> 01:00:50,876 ♪ Will it take a miracle ♪ 1110 01:00:50,959 --> 01:00:53,751 ♪ For you to ever learn... ♪ 1111 01:00:53,834 --> 01:00:56,542 We need abortion facilities in this area. 1112 01:00:56,626 --> 01:00:59,667 It's not right for women to have to go to New York 1113 01:00:59,751 --> 01:01:01,542 or Michigan, or anywhere really, 1114 01:01:01,626 --> 01:01:04,125 in order to control their own reproductive lives. 1115 01:01:04,209 --> 01:01:07,083 It's the natural, basic, democratic right of every woman. 1116 01:01:09,876 --> 01:01:12,125 ♪ I'm callin' your name... ♪ 1117 01:01:12,209 --> 01:01:13,209 ♪ (SONG FADES) ♪ 1118 01:01:13,292 --> 01:01:16,250 JEANNE: After New York became legal, 1119 01:01:16,334 --> 01:01:17,918 women were just angry. 1120 01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,042 "You could do it in New York, why can't I do it here? 1121 01:01:21,125 --> 01:01:23,584 Why am I in this position?" 1122 01:01:23,667 --> 01:01:27,083 And you just said, "You're right." (CHUCKLES) 1123 01:01:27,167 --> 01:01:28,667 "Why are you in this position? 1124 01:01:28,751 --> 01:01:31,042 You shouldn't have to be doing this. 1125 01:01:31,125 --> 01:01:32,751 You should be able to go to a doctor, 1126 01:01:32,834 --> 01:01:35,834 just like a woman in New York can go to a doctor." 1127 01:01:35,918 --> 01:01:38,500 ♪ (APPREHENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1128 01:01:43,125 --> 01:01:48,209 When I started, it was in the days of the "doctor," 1129 01:01:48,292 --> 01:01:51,209 the doctor who was not a doctor. 1130 01:01:51,292 --> 01:01:53,167 You know, I never gave it any thought 1131 01:01:53,250 --> 01:01:55,792 whether he was an M.D. or not, 1132 01:01:55,876 --> 01:01:58,792 until we discovered that he wasn't. 1133 01:02:00,459 --> 01:02:05,167 He was such a good abortionist, and I knew that from the jump. 1134 01:02:06,959 --> 01:02:09,292 PEACHES: I kind of knew he wasn't a doctor. 1135 01:02:11,125 --> 01:02:13,042 I knew that he was involved 1136 01:02:13,125 --> 01:02:16,667 with other, uh, illegal pursuits. 1137 01:02:18,167 --> 01:02:20,083 Once, I said, "You know, 1138 01:02:20,167 --> 01:02:23,667 sometimes I've thought about becoming a safecracker. 1139 01:02:23,751 --> 01:02:25,292 How would I go about doing that?" 1140 01:02:25,375 --> 01:02:30,167 And he gave me some advice. (LAUGHS) 1141 01:02:30,250 --> 01:02:32,083 Maybe they thought I was a doctor. 1142 01:02:32,167 --> 01:02:34,626 I have no idea what they thought. 1143 01:02:34,709 --> 01:02:39,083 I don't-- I'm not sure if that ever came up. 1144 01:02:39,167 --> 01:02:42,500 Maybe it did. But I never told anybody 1145 01:02:42,584 --> 01:02:43,792 I was a doctor. 1146 01:02:44,876 --> 01:02:47,042 TIA: But your code name was? 1147 01:02:47,125 --> 01:02:50,209 -Dr. Kaplan. -♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪ 1148 01:02:52,167 --> 01:02:56,125 When, um, we learned that... 1149 01:02:56,209 --> 01:02:58,584 in fact, he wasn't a doctor, 1150 01:02:58,667 --> 01:03:00,709 it was very hard on our heads too, 1151 01:03:00,792 --> 01:03:03,834 because we believed, like everybody else, 1152 01:03:03,918 --> 01:03:05,542 that doctors were magic. 1153 01:03:05,626 --> 01:03:07,959 And they were the ones who had the power. 1154 01:03:08,042 --> 01:03:09,626 Ordinary people couldn't do it. 1155 01:03:09,709 --> 01:03:12,626 And here was this ordinary person. 1156 01:03:12,709 --> 01:03:14,542 It was shocking that he wasn't a doctor, 1157 01:03:14,626 --> 01:03:16,375 and I felt betrayed. 1158 01:03:16,459 --> 01:03:18,667 And I felt bad, because I was counseling people 1159 01:03:18,751 --> 01:03:20,584 and telling them it was a doctor. 1160 01:03:22,292 --> 01:03:24,584 I was like, "Seriously?" 1161 01:03:25,542 --> 01:03:28,167 But nobody was getting hurt. 1162 01:03:28,250 --> 01:03:32,292 We were very responsible in terms of how 1163 01:03:32,375 --> 01:03:34,876 the services were being delivered, so... 1164 01:03:34,959 --> 01:03:37,667 you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. 1165 01:03:37,751 --> 01:03:40,709 JUDITH: There were women who left the service. 1166 01:03:40,792 --> 01:03:44,000 But I said, "Wait a minute. 1167 01:03:45,292 --> 01:03:49,792 This means if he can do it, we can do it!" 1168 01:03:49,876 --> 01:03:51,626 ♪ (RESOLUTE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1169 01:03:51,709 --> 01:03:52,959 ELEANOR: My first reaction was, 1170 01:03:53,042 --> 01:03:56,459 "No, we shouldn't be doing that procedure, 1171 01:03:57,292 --> 01:03:58,667 not ourselves." 1172 01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:01,709 I wasn't ready to do that. 1173 01:04:04,209 --> 01:04:08,083 To me, it seemed risky, and it was risky. 1174 01:04:09,876 --> 01:04:11,751 ABBY: I think it was exciting. 1175 01:04:11,834 --> 01:04:14,083 This is women's work. 1176 01:04:14,167 --> 01:04:18,209 We're just as capable as-- as he is. 1177 01:04:20,542 --> 01:04:23,334 MARIE: I was really surprised that he would be willing 1178 01:04:23,417 --> 01:04:27,876 to teach the women of Jane how to perform abortions. 1179 01:04:29,125 --> 01:04:32,000 I mean, I thought that that was revolutionary. 1180 01:04:33,125 --> 01:04:35,209 Uh, I think it was a mutual thing, 1181 01:04:35,292 --> 01:04:38,500 because I wasn't going to do it anymore. 1182 01:04:38,584 --> 01:04:40,292 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 1183 01:04:40,375 --> 01:04:42,375 And I wanted to get out of it. 1184 01:04:44,167 --> 01:04:45,375 'Cause, you know, 1185 01:04:45,459 --> 01:04:50,500 the Outfit discovered what I was doing, 1186 01:04:50,584 --> 01:04:53,792 and they wanted me to work with them. 1187 01:04:53,876 --> 01:04:57,125 And you know, first you work with them 1188 01:04:57,209 --> 01:04:58,959 and then you work for them. 1189 01:04:59,042 --> 01:05:02,292 And I didn't want anything to do with that. 1190 01:05:03,459 --> 01:05:07,083 So, for the women, I gave them all the tools 1191 01:05:07,167 --> 01:05:09,209 and, um... 1192 01:05:12,417 --> 01:05:15,375 I mean, there was no reason at that point, 1193 01:05:15,459 --> 01:05:18,751 there was no reason why they couldn't. 1194 01:05:18,834 --> 01:05:23,000 I mean, then they could really do a lot of them for free. 1195 01:05:25,250 --> 01:05:27,709 EILEEN: Sometimes you'd have to start with a small dilator 1196 01:05:27,792 --> 01:05:30,667 to just try to get inside of the cervix. 1197 01:05:30,751 --> 01:05:33,834 And then this is sort of a graduated one, 1198 01:05:33,918 --> 01:05:35,459 it would get a little bit bigger. 1199 01:05:35,542 --> 01:05:39,167 And then you could fit this in, and then you could dilate it 1200 01:05:39,250 --> 01:05:40,792 to the point that you could... 1201 01:05:42,918 --> 01:05:44,709 I haven't done this in a long time. 1202 01:05:46,459 --> 01:05:49,250 Make it big enough that you could open up the cervix 1203 01:05:49,334 --> 01:05:51,292 so that they could do the abortion. 1204 01:05:51,375 --> 01:05:53,125 And then this is one of the curettes 1205 01:05:53,209 --> 01:05:55,417 that you would go in and scrape the wall with. 1206 01:05:59,626 --> 01:06:00,751 It was a great victory to me 1207 01:06:00,834 --> 01:06:02,792 to challenge the medical profession 1208 01:06:02,876 --> 01:06:07,292 and show that women don't have to go to male doctors 1209 01:06:07,375 --> 01:06:09,167 with problems that, throughout history, 1210 01:06:09,250 --> 01:06:11,250 have been women's problems. 1211 01:06:11,334 --> 01:06:16,042 This work taught me that I was a responsible person. 1212 01:06:16,125 --> 01:06:18,209 And I could take responsibility, 1213 01:06:18,292 --> 01:06:21,918 not only in my own life, but for other people's lives. 1214 01:06:23,417 --> 01:06:26,209 Jane was so radically different. 1215 01:06:26,292 --> 01:06:27,918 It was the total opposite 1216 01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:30,292 of what I had experienced the first time. 1217 01:06:31,834 --> 01:06:33,459 Complete opposite. 1218 01:06:35,417 --> 01:06:36,959 When we talked, 1219 01:06:37,042 --> 01:06:40,292 they asked, "How far along do you think you are?" 1220 01:06:40,375 --> 01:06:42,125 "When was your last period?" 1221 01:06:42,209 --> 01:06:44,334 "Are you eating okay?" 1222 01:06:44,417 --> 01:06:46,834 "Can you afford the hundred dollars?" 1223 01:06:47,834 --> 01:06:50,542 They were so detailed in care. 1224 01:06:50,626 --> 01:06:52,459 (INDISTINCT CONVERSATION) 1225 01:06:52,542 --> 01:06:54,250 DORIE: When I got there, 1226 01:06:54,334 --> 01:06:56,626 there must have been at least six or eight of us 1227 01:06:56,709 --> 01:06:58,042 that were going that day. 1228 01:06:59,918 --> 01:07:02,250 While other women went in ahead of me, 1229 01:07:02,334 --> 01:07:04,626 I could hear the conversations, 1230 01:07:04,709 --> 01:07:06,375 and all I heard... 1231 01:07:07,334 --> 01:07:09,042 was kind words, 1232 01:07:10,292 --> 01:07:11,834 consideration, 1233 01:07:12,709 --> 01:07:14,417 concern. 1234 01:07:14,500 --> 01:07:19,375 I could hear this lovely woman's voice assuring, 1235 01:07:19,459 --> 01:07:23,792 constantly, every woman that was in that room. 1236 01:07:23,876 --> 01:07:28,167 The assurance, the trust, the respect that I got. 1237 01:07:28,250 --> 01:07:30,667 When I tell you they changed my life, 1238 01:07:30,751 --> 01:07:32,000 they changed my life. 1239 01:07:32,834 --> 01:07:34,626 I was raised in a convent, 1240 01:07:34,709 --> 01:07:38,125 and I was beaten by nuns and abused by nuns. 1241 01:07:38,209 --> 01:07:39,417 (BELL TOLLING) 1242 01:07:39,500 --> 01:07:42,584 So, I didn't think that women gave a shit about women. 1243 01:07:43,667 --> 01:07:46,542 When I saw women caring about women, 1244 01:07:46,626 --> 01:07:49,125 not insulting them, not being sarcastic, 1245 01:07:49,209 --> 01:07:50,959 not dismissing them... 1246 01:07:52,792 --> 01:07:54,792 it was a whole new world for me. 1247 01:07:58,751 --> 01:08:01,751 LAURA: We could see it, in some cases, 1248 01:08:01,834 --> 01:08:06,250 how coming through the service 1249 01:08:06,334 --> 01:08:09,375 transformed other women. 1250 01:08:10,167 --> 01:08:11,959 And that was our intent. 1251 01:08:13,083 --> 01:08:16,500 We were building a new world, 1252 01:08:16,584 --> 01:08:20,125 and we were doing that one woman at a time. 1253 01:08:21,918 --> 01:08:24,167 But some women were just like, 1254 01:08:24,250 --> 01:08:26,500 "Give me my abortion, I'm out of here, 1255 01:08:26,584 --> 01:08:28,626 I am not hearing anything." 1256 01:08:30,375 --> 01:08:34,292 Our rule of thumb was that we kept in touch with the women 1257 01:08:34,375 --> 01:08:37,459 for just about two weeks after their abortions 1258 01:08:37,542 --> 01:08:39,334 to make sure they were okay. 1259 01:08:40,876 --> 01:08:43,751 It was a worry. It was always a worry. 1260 01:08:45,542 --> 01:08:47,292 I do remember once there was a woman who-- 1261 01:08:47,375 --> 01:08:50,250 I was doing her abortion and she started bleeding, 1262 01:08:50,334 --> 01:08:52,542 and it just scared me terribly because I thought, 1263 01:08:52,626 --> 01:08:55,042 "You know, I really don't know very much about this. 1264 01:08:55,125 --> 01:08:59,250 I know this extremely limited piece of information, 1265 01:08:59,334 --> 01:09:03,584 and I'm good at what I do, I don't do harm, 1266 01:09:03,667 --> 01:09:07,209 but I don't know about the other stuff." 1267 01:09:07,292 --> 01:09:10,751 I was thinking, "I am out of my depth." 1268 01:09:12,292 --> 01:09:15,250 But, you know, those things fade 1269 01:09:15,334 --> 01:09:17,292 as there's somebody else coming in 1270 01:09:17,375 --> 01:09:19,542 who says, "I really need this abortion." 1271 01:09:20,918 --> 01:09:22,667 LAURA: If a woman was having, like, a problem 1272 01:09:22,751 --> 01:09:24,834 with bleeding, we would say to her, 1273 01:09:24,918 --> 01:09:26,667 she needed to go to a hospital. 1274 01:09:26,751 --> 01:09:29,667 But there were those women who disappeared afterwards 1275 01:09:29,751 --> 01:09:32,542 and you couldn't do follow-up with them because they... 1276 01:09:32,626 --> 01:09:34,584 you could never reach them again. 1277 01:09:37,709 --> 01:09:40,959 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1278 01:09:47,292 --> 01:09:48,792 A woman came to us... 1279 01:09:51,375 --> 01:09:54,042 who seemed okay. 1280 01:09:54,125 --> 01:09:58,834 She was African American and she was pretty young. 1281 01:10:01,709 --> 01:10:04,167 JUDITH: We realized she had a fever. 1282 01:10:04,250 --> 01:10:07,709 And we discovered she had an infection. 1283 01:10:07,792 --> 01:10:11,792 So, we knew that she had done something, 1284 01:10:11,876 --> 01:10:14,959 or something had been done to her, 1285 01:10:15,042 --> 01:10:16,209 that injured her. 1286 01:10:17,918 --> 01:10:20,417 KATIE: She was in quite a bit of pain. 1287 01:10:20,500 --> 01:10:22,959 I think she knew that she was in trouble 1288 01:10:23,042 --> 01:10:25,000 before she arrived. 1289 01:10:27,292 --> 01:10:30,459 I remember her panic 1290 01:10:30,542 --> 01:10:32,959 that we were not going to be able 1291 01:10:33,042 --> 01:10:34,959 to do the abortion. 1292 01:10:36,083 --> 01:10:39,751 "We said, "We can't do this. You have an infection. 1293 01:10:39,834 --> 01:10:42,584 We want to take you to the hospital right now. 1294 01:10:42,667 --> 01:10:44,834 "This is very dangerous." 1295 01:10:44,918 --> 01:10:47,792 And she f-- she put her clothes on and fled. 1296 01:10:48,417 --> 01:10:51,375 (SIREN WAILING) 1297 01:10:54,334 --> 01:10:56,250 ALLAN: It sounds like she arrived 1298 01:10:56,334 --> 01:10:59,626 at Cook County with a neglected infection 1299 01:10:59,709 --> 01:11:02,709 that had been going on for days. 1300 01:11:02,792 --> 01:11:06,167 She was likely very close to septic shock. 1301 01:11:06,250 --> 01:11:10,000 She would've come into the triage area 1302 01:11:10,083 --> 01:11:13,334 and then up to the Septic Abortion Ward. 1303 01:11:13,417 --> 01:11:16,000 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1304 01:11:16,083 --> 01:11:19,083 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 1305 01:11:23,375 --> 01:11:26,667 JUDITH: We called for I think it was two days, 1306 01:11:26,751 --> 01:11:29,083 two nights, no answer. 1307 01:11:29,167 --> 01:11:33,459 And then a man answered who identified himself 1308 01:11:33,542 --> 01:11:35,792 as her family's pastor, 1309 01:11:35,876 --> 01:11:39,083 and he said she had passed. 1310 01:11:39,167 --> 01:11:41,375 That was the phrase that he used. 1311 01:11:41,459 --> 01:11:44,500 ♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 1312 01:12:04,792 --> 01:12:06,876 Everybody in the... 1313 01:12:06,959 --> 01:12:10,042 in Jane was devastated. 1314 01:12:11,709 --> 01:12:15,375 We felt an enormous amount of guilt connected to this. 1315 01:12:15,459 --> 01:12:17,292 Not that it was our doing, 1316 01:12:17,375 --> 01:12:22,083 but she came through our hands and we didn't do enough. 1317 01:12:22,167 --> 01:12:25,417 No one put her in a car and took her to the hospital. 1318 01:12:25,500 --> 01:12:28,751 We didn't do enough. We just didn't do enough. 1319 01:12:31,334 --> 01:12:33,667 LAURA: It was horrible, horrible. 1320 01:12:35,042 --> 01:12:37,709 But we did not do this. 1321 01:12:37,792 --> 01:12:40,042 I don't know what would have happened 1322 01:12:40,125 --> 01:12:44,375 if it was something we had done. 1323 01:12:44,459 --> 01:12:48,000 You know, that might have ended Jane right then and there. 1324 01:12:50,459 --> 01:12:53,709 You were a little bit playing God, and we were young. 1325 01:12:55,959 --> 01:12:58,626 To me, I just saw a constant, 1326 01:12:59,667 --> 01:13:03,125 endless line of-- of... 1327 01:13:03,209 --> 01:13:06,500 of suffering people needing help, and... 1328 01:13:06,584 --> 01:13:10,209 and we were just such a drop in the bucket. 1329 01:13:11,542 --> 01:13:16,876 Such an endless line of terrible situations. 1330 01:13:16,959 --> 01:13:18,834 I finally got to the point where I said, 1331 01:13:18,918 --> 01:13:22,459 "I can't stand to see any more pain." 1332 01:13:22,542 --> 01:13:27,125 It just got too much for me to deal with emotionally. 1333 01:13:27,209 --> 01:13:31,125 We were doing close to 30 a day, three times a week... 1334 01:13:32,417 --> 01:13:35,125 week after week after week after week. 1335 01:13:36,250 --> 01:13:38,500 So, that's a lot. 1336 01:13:40,459 --> 01:13:44,500 In terms of her stepping back from Jane, 1337 01:13:44,584 --> 01:13:47,834 Jody said, "I just couldn't do it anymore," 1338 01:13:49,500 --> 01:13:50,959 and then, you know, 1339 01:13:51,918 --> 01:13:54,751 wound up signing herself into a psych ward. 1340 01:13:58,918 --> 01:14:01,125 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1341 01:14:04,792 --> 01:14:06,834 JEANNE: We were getting away with it, 1342 01:14:06,918 --> 01:14:08,751 for so long. 1343 01:14:08,834 --> 01:14:12,292 It never entered my pretty little head 1344 01:14:12,375 --> 01:14:14,417 that I could get into trouble. 1345 01:14:15,667 --> 01:14:17,751 MICHAEL: They put posters up in the neighborhood. 1346 01:14:17,834 --> 01:14:22,000 They put things on billboards. They advertised. 1347 01:14:22,083 --> 01:14:26,042 And somehow, they thought this was going to escape 1348 01:14:26,125 --> 01:14:30,792 the attention of whatever authority might be interested. 1349 01:14:32,334 --> 01:14:35,334 JUDITH: Come on! Everybody knew! 1350 01:14:35,417 --> 01:14:36,792 They didn't come after us. 1351 01:14:37,876 --> 01:14:40,834 And they certainly knew what was going on. 1352 01:14:42,375 --> 01:14:46,500 MICHAEL: The clientele of Jane included daughters, 1353 01:14:46,584 --> 01:14:50,000 wives, mistresses of police, 1354 01:14:50,083 --> 01:14:52,125 State's Attorney, judges. 1355 01:14:53,042 --> 01:14:54,667 It had to be hands-off. 1356 01:14:54,751 --> 01:14:57,918 They couldn't have worked the way they did, 1357 01:14:58,000 --> 01:14:59,751 and as long as they did, 1358 01:14:59,834 --> 01:15:02,959 with no interference at all, without that. 1359 01:15:03,751 --> 01:15:05,292 It just couldn't have been. 1360 01:15:07,125 --> 01:15:08,751 (SIREN WAILS DISTANTLY) 1361 01:15:08,834 --> 01:15:10,959 Abortion was illegal in the state of Illinois, 1362 01:15:11,042 --> 01:15:13,125 and mostly, uh, illegal in every state 1363 01:15:13,209 --> 01:15:16,584 in the United States in, uh, 1972. 1364 01:15:16,667 --> 01:15:19,876 But it wasn't on our radar, not on the Homicide Unit. 1365 01:15:19,959 --> 01:15:22,751 We handle murders, rapes, 1366 01:15:24,250 --> 01:15:26,250 serious assaults. 1367 01:15:26,334 --> 01:15:28,459 A guy getting his eye shot out, 1368 01:15:28,542 --> 01:15:31,751 a guy who had his arm blown off with a sawed-off shotgun. 1369 01:15:33,709 --> 01:15:36,375 We had a murder every other day. 1370 01:15:36,459 --> 01:15:37,959 And that's what we dealt with. 1371 01:15:39,792 --> 01:15:43,125 ♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1372 01:15:43,209 --> 01:15:45,542 SGT. O'CONNOR: When these two women walked into our office 1373 01:15:45,626 --> 01:15:49,375 to tell us that an abortion was going to happen, 1374 01:15:49,459 --> 01:15:52,334 "they said, "Our sister-in-law's going to have an abortion, 1375 01:15:52,417 --> 01:15:53,959 and we think that's a sin, 1376 01:15:54,959 --> 01:15:56,709 "and we want you to stop it." 1377 01:15:58,250 --> 01:16:00,042 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪ 1378 01:16:00,125 --> 01:16:04,667 Abortion didn't exist in my world. It had never-- 1379 01:16:04,751 --> 01:16:07,459 It never was spoken about in my family 1380 01:16:07,542 --> 01:16:08,792 or in my social circle. 1381 01:16:08,876 --> 01:16:10,042 Never. 1382 01:16:10,125 --> 01:16:13,292 I'm an Irish Catholic. My partner's an Irish Catholic. 1383 01:16:13,375 --> 01:16:16,584 We conferred with the detective sergeant watch commander, 1384 01:16:16,667 --> 01:16:18,292 who was an Irish Catholic. 1385 01:16:18,375 --> 01:16:20,083 Then the three of us went in to talk 1386 01:16:20,167 --> 01:16:23,918 to the lieutenant commanding that homicide office, 1387 01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:25,250 who was an Irish Catholic. 1388 01:16:25,334 --> 01:16:28,209 He got on the phone to call the citywide homicide commander, 1389 01:16:28,292 --> 01:16:31,000 who was an Irish Catholic. He had to get on the phone 1390 01:16:31,083 --> 01:16:32,709 and confer with the chief of detectives, 1391 01:16:32,792 --> 01:16:35,250 who was an Irish Catholic. (LAUGHS) 1392 01:16:35,334 --> 01:16:38,918 Uh, and abortion was-- All of us were like, "What?" 1393 01:16:40,500 --> 01:16:43,334 We didn't want to get involved in this. 1394 01:16:43,417 --> 01:16:45,209 But we were told, "You're the Homicide Unit. 1395 01:16:45,292 --> 01:16:46,918 You're gonna have to do it." 1396 01:16:47,876 --> 01:16:49,417 My partner was really mad, 1397 01:16:49,500 --> 01:16:51,292 saying, "What stupid bullshit this is!" 1398 01:16:51,375 --> 01:16:53,125 You know, "We got better stuff to do. 1399 01:16:53,209 --> 01:16:54,292 Who cares?" 1400 01:16:56,250 --> 01:16:59,417 'Course, obviously, we weren't involved in either side 1401 01:16:59,500 --> 01:17:03,042 of the great philosophical camps that debated this, you know. 1402 01:17:03,125 --> 01:17:07,751 I mean, we were just the guys stuck with the law. 1403 01:17:07,834 --> 01:17:11,083 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1404 01:17:18,250 --> 01:17:21,000 JUDITH: May 3rd, 1972. 1405 01:17:21,083 --> 01:17:24,000 It was a quiet spring morning. 1406 01:17:24,083 --> 01:17:29,500 I was taking women from The Front to The Place 1407 01:17:29,584 --> 01:17:32,709 and from The Place to The Front. 1408 01:17:32,792 --> 01:17:37,792 JEANNE: I was working The Front, and it was a very chaotic Front. 1409 01:17:37,876 --> 01:17:42,751 There must've been at least four or five kids running around. 1410 01:17:42,834 --> 01:17:45,667 So, it was kind of, um, festive... 1411 01:17:45,751 --> 01:17:48,083 (LAUGHS) ...and a busy day. 1412 01:17:50,042 --> 01:17:52,542 MARTHA: I was at The Place. 1413 01:17:52,626 --> 01:17:56,751 Abby was there, Diane was there, and Madeline was there. 1414 01:17:56,834 --> 01:17:59,500 I was actually doing abortions. 1415 01:17:59,584 --> 01:18:03,417 I had brought a pork roast. And we put it in the oven 1416 01:18:03,500 --> 01:18:06,918 because we wanted to have lunch together. 1417 01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:10,417 The day seemed to just be kinda moving along. 1418 01:18:11,334 --> 01:18:14,167 (SIREN WAILING) 1419 01:18:14,250 --> 01:18:17,375 SGT. O'CONNOR: We don't do surveillance in the Homicide Unit. 1420 01:18:17,459 --> 01:18:22,584 We're all big... big Irish guys wearing three-piece suits. 1421 01:18:22,667 --> 01:18:25,667 We don't exactly blend in. 1422 01:18:25,751 --> 01:18:28,375 "But we said, "All right, we're gonna set up 1423 01:18:28,459 --> 01:18:30,083 on the sister-in-law." 1424 01:18:31,417 --> 01:18:32,876 We saw the woman come out, 1425 01:18:32,959 --> 01:18:35,375 she got in the car, and they drove 'em away. 1426 01:18:36,751 --> 01:18:39,792 JUDITH: I did what all drivers were supposed to do, 1427 01:18:41,042 --> 01:18:43,709 which was drive as if you are being followed. 1428 01:18:43,792 --> 01:18:46,709 Change locations, go down small streets. 1429 01:18:50,459 --> 01:18:53,709 Now, I did not know on that day, 1430 01:18:53,792 --> 01:18:57,459 I actually was finally being followed. 1431 01:19:01,209 --> 01:19:02,250 SGT. O'CONNOR: We followed them 1432 01:19:02,334 --> 01:19:04,375 into the South Shore neighborhood. 1433 01:19:06,626 --> 01:19:07,751 And she got out. 1434 01:19:07,834 --> 01:19:10,542 -(CAR DOOR SLAMS) -(FOOTSTEPS) 1435 01:19:10,626 --> 01:19:12,417 SGT. O'CONNOR: Over the elevator doors, 1436 01:19:12,500 --> 01:19:14,918 there were these brass numbers, 1437 01:19:15,042 --> 01:19:18,667 and an arrow. And the arrow was going up 1438 01:19:18,751 --> 01:19:20,334 -and it stopped at a floor. -(DINGS) 1439 01:19:20,417 --> 01:19:23,292 SGT. O'CONNOR: So, we knew that's the floor they were on. 1440 01:19:24,751 --> 01:19:29,209 JUDITH: I was taking a woman back to The Front. 1441 01:19:30,417 --> 01:19:32,834 The elevator came up, doors opened. 1442 01:19:32,918 --> 01:19:34,000 (ELEVATOR DINGS) 1443 01:19:34,083 --> 01:19:36,167 We stepped back because there were these guys 1444 01:19:36,250 --> 01:19:37,250 on the elevator. 1445 01:19:38,500 --> 01:19:41,584 They were like actors playing cops. 1446 01:19:41,667 --> 01:19:46,584 Trench coats, dress shirt, tie, very shiny black shoes. 1447 01:19:47,209 --> 01:19:48,626 White men. 1448 01:19:48,709 --> 01:19:52,083 And then suddenly they realized 1449 01:19:52,167 --> 01:19:55,542 that we might be just what they had come for. 1450 01:19:56,876 --> 01:19:58,792 SGT. O'CONNOR: She was about 30 years of age, 1451 01:19:58,876 --> 01:20:00,709 formally dressed, she was wearing a suit, 1452 01:20:00,792 --> 01:20:01,959 nylons, heels. 1453 01:20:03,250 --> 01:20:06,334 Pete Valesares was six foot five inches tall. 1454 01:20:06,417 --> 01:20:08,751 Peter went right up to her, grabbed her by the arm, 1455 01:20:08,834 --> 01:20:11,459 and in a very stern voice, he leaned down, he said, 1456 01:20:11,542 --> 01:20:14,167 "Did you just have an abortion?" (CHUCKLES) 1457 01:20:15,250 --> 01:20:17,292 JUDITH: And she burst into tears. 1458 01:20:18,792 --> 01:20:20,459 She said, "Yes!" 1459 01:20:21,584 --> 01:20:23,209 And he said, "Show us where." 1460 01:20:23,292 --> 01:20:25,542 So, she turned around, she brought us to the door. 1461 01:20:27,500 --> 01:20:29,375 When the Homicide Unit wants to go into a room, 1462 01:20:29,459 --> 01:20:32,334 we get into the room. Door doesn't stop us. 1463 01:20:33,042 --> 01:20:34,167 And in we went. 1464 01:20:35,834 --> 01:20:37,167 The abortions were being performed 1465 01:20:37,250 --> 01:20:38,375 in the two bedrooms. 1466 01:20:39,751 --> 01:20:42,167 SHEILA: We immediately locked the door to the bedroom. 1467 01:20:42,250 --> 01:20:45,000 And the woman put her clothes on. 1468 01:20:45,083 --> 01:20:49,417 We took the equipment and threw it out the window. 1469 01:20:49,500 --> 01:20:51,500 We waited politely sitting on the bed, 1470 01:20:51,584 --> 01:20:54,125 and eventually someone kicked the door in. 1471 01:20:54,209 --> 01:20:55,584 I know we didn't kick the door down. 1472 01:20:55,667 --> 01:20:58,626 So, I-- I'm guessing we must have just knocked. (CHUCKLES) 1473 01:20:58,709 --> 01:21:01,876 There was this big footprint on the door. 1474 01:21:01,959 --> 01:21:04,292 ABBY: They ran to the bedrooms and started, 1475 01:21:04,375 --> 01:21:07,375 "Where's the doctor? Where's the doctor?" 1476 01:21:07,459 --> 01:21:11,167 Opened the windows to see if the doctor was hanging 1477 01:21:11,250 --> 01:21:15,959 by his fingernails out the window. 1478 01:21:16,042 --> 01:21:18,042 SGT. O'CONNOR: We're in that scratching-our-heads mode. 1479 01:21:18,125 --> 01:21:20,709 "Where's the doctors? There are no doctors? 1480 01:21:20,792 --> 01:21:23,667 "I don't know." "You-- you're not a nurse?" 1481 01:21:23,751 --> 01:21:27,542 The women doing the abortions, that didn't pop into my head. 1482 01:21:27,626 --> 01:21:29,876 I mean, these were just... ladies. 1483 01:21:31,667 --> 01:21:34,167 The living room was full of women, waiting. 1484 01:21:35,876 --> 01:21:37,334 Girls all got silent. 1485 01:21:39,083 --> 01:21:41,751 I'm looking at these women who are staring at us. 1486 01:21:43,500 --> 01:21:45,626 A very, uh, awkward business. 1487 01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,167 DIANE: Martha had put in a pork roast. 1488 01:21:49,250 --> 01:21:51,417 I guess it must have smelled pretty good, 1489 01:21:51,500 --> 01:21:55,542 because one of the cops asked, "What's for lunch?" 1490 01:21:55,626 --> 01:21:57,709 And I said, "Pig!" 1491 01:21:57,792 --> 01:21:59,417 (LAUGHS) 1492 01:22:01,209 --> 01:22:02,459 I was bad. 1493 01:22:02,542 --> 01:22:04,125 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 1494 01:22:05,876 --> 01:22:09,959 JUDITH: They cuffed me, put me in a police van. 1495 01:22:10,042 --> 01:22:12,167 I was completely freaked out. 1496 01:22:12,250 --> 01:22:14,250 It was freezing in that van. 1497 01:22:15,417 --> 01:22:17,042 SHEILA: There was this grille in the back, 1498 01:22:17,125 --> 01:22:20,375 and you could see Chicago as we're pulling away. 1499 01:22:26,250 --> 01:22:27,542 We had these index cards 1500 01:22:27,626 --> 01:22:33,584 that had all this identifiable information about women on it. 1501 01:22:33,667 --> 01:22:36,417 And so, we knew we had to destroy them. 1502 01:22:36,500 --> 01:22:38,500 We started eating the cards. 1503 01:22:38,584 --> 01:22:40,042 And I don't know if you ever tried 1504 01:22:40,125 --> 01:22:43,250 to eat an index card, but it's-- it's very fibrous. 1505 01:22:46,125 --> 01:22:49,209 JUDITH: I was taken into an individual office. 1506 01:22:50,083 --> 01:22:51,959 There was a cop in there. 1507 01:22:52,584 --> 01:22:54,417 He asked me questions. 1508 01:22:54,500 --> 01:22:57,709 He said, "That must have been how you did it." 1509 01:22:57,792 --> 01:23:00,500 And I said, "Did what?" 1510 01:23:00,584 --> 01:23:03,542 He wants me to say that I was doing abortions. 1511 01:23:03,626 --> 01:23:04,876 I'm not gonna say that. 1512 01:23:04,959 --> 01:23:07,209 What, is he crazy? Think I'm an idiot? 1513 01:23:08,834 --> 01:23:10,876 JEANNE: They were kind of pissed. 1514 01:23:10,959 --> 01:23:14,042 He asked me, "How much do you charge?" 1515 01:23:14,125 --> 01:23:17,000 I said, "Why don't you ask the women?" 1516 01:23:17,083 --> 01:23:19,250 He was really frustrated, and he said, 1517 01:23:19,334 --> 01:23:22,459 "I have, and I've gotten all kinds of different answers!" 1518 01:23:22,542 --> 01:23:24,417 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1519 01:23:25,834 --> 01:23:27,459 SGT. O'CONNOR: We had a bunch of the women 1520 01:23:27,542 --> 01:23:29,250 who were waiting for the procedure. 1521 01:23:30,584 --> 01:23:31,834 And we knew who they were. 1522 01:23:32,918 --> 01:23:34,334 MARTHA: They were probably terrified, 1523 01:23:34,417 --> 01:23:37,042 thinking, "I didn't get an abortion today. 1524 01:23:37,125 --> 01:23:39,250 Here I am, in the police station, 1525 01:23:39,334 --> 01:23:41,042 and I didn't get an abortion!" 1526 01:23:42,918 --> 01:23:44,751 SGT. O'CONNOR: One of them looked up at me, she said, 1527 01:23:44,834 --> 01:23:47,542 "I hope you don't think you did me any favors." 1528 01:23:47,626 --> 01:23:50,792 "I said, "Hey, listen, I'm just doing my job. 1529 01:23:50,876 --> 01:23:53,042 Don't get on me over this, you know. 1530 01:23:53,876 --> 01:23:54,959 "You're a grown-up." 1531 01:23:56,459 --> 01:23:59,209 ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1532 01:24:04,500 --> 01:24:07,542 (INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER) 1533 01:24:08,959 --> 01:24:12,000 MARTHA: I was not really upset until they fingerprinted us. 1534 01:24:13,792 --> 01:24:17,375 And then it felt like The Man now had some control 1535 01:24:17,459 --> 01:24:19,167 that they didn't have before. 1536 01:24:19,250 --> 01:24:22,667 That made it so much realer than anything else. 1537 01:24:23,584 --> 01:24:26,626 ♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 1538 01:24:27,959 --> 01:24:29,000 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) 1539 01:24:32,626 --> 01:24:33,709 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) 1540 01:24:37,834 --> 01:24:38,959 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) 1541 01:24:46,125 --> 01:24:48,542 ♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪ 1542 01:24:49,876 --> 01:24:51,083 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪ 1543 01:24:52,334 --> 01:24:54,709 MICHAEL: Someone at the office said, 1544 01:24:54,792 --> 01:24:56,667 "There's an emergency." 1545 01:24:56,751 --> 01:25:00,334 Judith and some other women had been arrested. 1546 01:25:00,417 --> 01:25:04,334 My first reaction was, "Oh, God, here it's finally happened." 1547 01:25:05,334 --> 01:25:06,709 (CHILDREN CHATTERING) 1548 01:25:06,792 --> 01:25:10,834 EILEEN: I was at Judith's house babysitting, and I got a call. 1549 01:25:10,918 --> 01:25:14,042 Michael said, "Can you babysit a while longer?" 1550 01:25:14,125 --> 01:25:15,542 I'm like, "Yeah." 1551 01:25:15,626 --> 01:25:17,584 And he goes, "No, I mean it might be a while longer." 1552 01:25:17,667 --> 01:25:19,584 And it was like... And then he told me what happened, 1553 01:25:19,667 --> 01:25:20,959 I was like, "Oh, my God!" 1554 01:25:21,042 --> 01:25:22,292 (PHONE RINGING) 1555 01:25:22,375 --> 01:25:24,542 EILEEN: Then the phone calls started coming fast and furious. 1556 01:25:24,626 --> 01:25:26,792 (PHONES RINGING) 1557 01:25:26,876 --> 01:25:28,417 MICHAEL: We started to try to figure out 1558 01:25:28,500 --> 01:25:30,292 what we were going to do and how the hell 1559 01:25:30,375 --> 01:25:32,000 are we going to get them out of jail? 1560 01:25:32,876 --> 01:25:36,000 Because jail, it ain't no place. 1561 01:25:37,792 --> 01:25:42,000 (SIRENS WAILING) 1562 01:25:43,709 --> 01:25:45,667 SGT. O'CONNOR: The only facility we had for women 1563 01:25:45,751 --> 01:25:47,083 is at 1121 South State. 1564 01:25:49,209 --> 01:25:50,959 I'm sure that was quite an experience... 1565 01:25:51,042 --> 01:25:53,500 (CHUCKLES) ...to be sent to the women's lockup. 1566 01:25:53,584 --> 01:25:55,000 That would've been worth seeing. 1567 01:25:55,083 --> 01:25:57,167 When the poor ladies from Jane were brought in 1568 01:25:57,250 --> 01:25:58,626 with the, uh, streetwalkers. 1569 01:26:01,542 --> 01:26:04,167 JEANNE: There were a couple other women... 1570 01:26:04,250 --> 01:26:05,250 (SIREN BLARING) 1571 01:26:05,334 --> 01:26:06,876 ...who had been picked up for prostitution. 1572 01:26:07,417 --> 01:26:09,751 One of them was... 1573 01:26:11,584 --> 01:26:12,667 hilarious. 1574 01:26:14,167 --> 01:26:18,626 She told this off-color story of somebody she knew 1575 01:26:18,709 --> 01:26:21,250 who had no teeth and was famous on the street 1576 01:26:21,334 --> 01:26:25,083 for giving two-dollar Frenchies, and which was... so... (LAUGHS) 1577 01:26:25,167 --> 01:26:28,083 Uh, evidently, she was very skilled at blowjobs. 1578 01:26:28,167 --> 01:26:29,542 (LAUGHS) 1579 01:26:29,626 --> 01:26:32,751 Our nerves were gone, you know? We were just... 1580 01:26:33,459 --> 01:26:34,959 we just ate it up. 1581 01:26:36,250 --> 01:26:42,375 -♪ (TENSE JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ -(KEYS JANGLING) 1582 01:26:42,459 --> 01:26:44,375 ABBY: The women said, "What are you in for?" 1583 01:26:44,459 --> 01:26:48,542 And we said, "Abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion." 1584 01:26:48,626 --> 01:26:50,250 And they said, "No!" 1585 01:26:51,959 --> 01:26:53,834 SHEILA: There was a woman who had been involved 1586 01:26:53,918 --> 01:26:55,709 in an armed robbery, 1587 01:26:55,792 --> 01:26:59,000 and was extremely eager to turn state's evidence 1588 01:26:59,083 --> 01:27:01,250 before somebody else in the group did. 1589 01:27:01,334 --> 01:27:03,751 There was a lot of street smarts in that cell 1590 01:27:03,834 --> 01:27:05,918 that I personally lacked. 1591 01:27:10,417 --> 01:27:13,959 DIANE: I heard people yelling. And that scared me. 1592 01:27:14,042 --> 01:27:16,000 I thought, "What is happening 1593 01:27:16,083 --> 01:27:19,083 to these women that they're screaming?" 1594 01:27:20,334 --> 01:27:22,250 JUDITH: Women were shouting, some were crying, 1595 01:27:22,334 --> 01:27:24,167 some were in drug withdrawal. 1596 01:27:24,250 --> 01:27:25,918 It's a madhouse. 1597 01:27:27,500 --> 01:27:29,417 I was a nursing mother. 1598 01:27:30,709 --> 01:27:32,792 My breasts were so painful 1599 01:27:32,876 --> 01:27:36,125 that I just thought, "Well, I have to empty them here 1600 01:27:36,209 --> 01:27:38,292 into this filthy little sink." 1601 01:27:39,876 --> 01:27:42,417 That was some relief. 1602 01:27:42,500 --> 01:27:45,626 ♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ 1603 01:27:48,834 --> 01:27:50,334 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 1604 01:27:50,417 --> 01:27:55,584 MICHAEL: My thought was Judith was the best of the bunch 1605 01:27:55,667 --> 01:27:59,167 to get out first, because we have a baby. 1606 01:27:59,250 --> 01:28:01,334 She's certainly not a flight risk. 1607 01:28:02,751 --> 01:28:07,083 So, we will pitch that to the judge 1608 01:28:07,167 --> 01:28:09,834 to get the lowest possible bail. 1609 01:28:11,083 --> 01:28:12,959 And then we'll have that as an example 1610 01:28:13,042 --> 01:28:15,292 for the rest of them. 1611 01:28:15,375 --> 01:28:20,209 Not only was I a nursing mother, but I was a college graduate, 1612 01:28:20,292 --> 01:28:23,751 a white woman, married to a lawyer. 1613 01:28:23,834 --> 01:28:26,834 And all of those things were going to get me low bail, 1614 01:28:26,918 --> 01:28:30,125 and boy, I did not disbelieve that! 1615 01:28:30,209 --> 01:28:33,542 That would definitely be realistic, 1616 01:28:33,626 --> 01:28:36,375 certainly in Chicago. 1617 01:28:36,459 --> 01:28:38,584 And, uh, it worked. 1618 01:28:39,876 --> 01:28:43,209 ♪ (FORLORN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1619 01:28:45,250 --> 01:28:47,334 JUDITH: When I got back to the apartment, 1620 01:28:47,417 --> 01:28:49,000 it was past dawn. 1621 01:28:49,083 --> 01:28:52,751 I remember standing next to the crib, 1622 01:28:52,834 --> 01:28:57,042 and the baby woke up, and I nursed him. 1623 01:28:58,250 --> 01:28:59,500 And that was... 1624 01:29:01,375 --> 01:29:02,709 a fine conclusion. 1625 01:29:04,626 --> 01:29:07,125 I was enormously relieved. 1626 01:29:07,209 --> 01:29:12,042 I could feel the anxiety coming out of my body, 1627 01:29:12,125 --> 01:29:15,500 down my arms, down my legs. 1628 01:29:15,584 --> 01:29:18,792 Great moments in motherhood. (LAUGHS) 1629 01:29:18,876 --> 01:29:21,751 (BIRDS CHIRPING) 1630 01:29:30,459 --> 01:29:32,584 LAURA: Jody was in a psych ward. 1631 01:29:32,667 --> 01:29:35,584 And Ruth called her up the day of the bust 1632 01:29:35,667 --> 01:29:38,626 and said, "You've had a long enough vacation. 1633 01:29:38,709 --> 01:29:40,209 Sign yourself out." 1634 01:29:40,292 --> 01:29:42,584 And Jody went to her psychiatrist and said, 1635 01:29:42,667 --> 01:29:45,959 "I'm going to sign myself out," and he said, 1636 01:29:46,042 --> 01:29:48,751 "I hope this doesn't have to do with what I've been reading 1637 01:29:48,834 --> 01:29:52,292 about in the newspapers." So, she came back. 1638 01:29:52,375 --> 01:29:55,751 ♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1639 01:30:00,876 --> 01:30:02,876 PEACHES: It got very busy again. 1640 01:30:02,959 --> 01:30:05,667 You'd think all that publicity would scare people. 1641 01:30:11,334 --> 01:30:12,500 It's illegal, 1642 01:30:12,584 --> 01:30:14,876 you saw these people got arrested for it, 1643 01:30:14,959 --> 01:30:17,375 and you're still calling them up on the phone. 1644 01:30:18,584 --> 01:30:20,500 Does that mean you're desperate? 1645 01:30:21,292 --> 01:30:22,292 Probably. 1646 01:30:22,834 --> 01:30:27,334 ♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪ 1647 01:30:27,417 --> 01:30:29,834 It didn't seem like it was so underground anymore. 1648 01:30:29,918 --> 01:30:31,209 Like, it was much more visible. 1649 01:30:32,876 --> 01:30:35,751 We didn't know if people were being watched. 1650 01:30:37,417 --> 01:30:39,667 And we had to change the way we did it. 1651 01:30:39,751 --> 01:30:42,083 LAURA: We were doing these little blitzes 1652 01:30:42,167 --> 01:30:46,751 where we would have five women meet on a street corner 1653 01:30:46,834 --> 01:30:48,918 and one of us would pick them up, 1654 01:30:49,792 --> 01:30:52,125 drive them to someone's house. 1655 01:30:53,083 --> 01:30:55,167 They would get counseled, 1656 01:30:55,250 --> 01:30:57,959 and then Jody would do their abortions 1657 01:30:58,042 --> 01:30:59,500 right then and there. 1658 01:31:05,042 --> 01:31:07,500 JEANNE: There were 11 counts of abortion 1659 01:31:07,584 --> 01:31:10,542 and conspiracy to commit abortion, 1660 01:31:10,626 --> 01:31:13,125 and it was one to ten on each count... 1661 01:31:14,167 --> 01:31:16,417 so it was up to 110 years. 1662 01:31:17,042 --> 01:31:18,209 For each of us. 1663 01:31:19,125 --> 01:31:20,918 So, that's a long time. 1664 01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:23,083 We knew that we were-- we were screwed 1665 01:31:23,167 --> 01:31:25,876 if we were inside the Ch-- the Chicago court system. 1666 01:31:26,542 --> 01:31:28,459 It's dominated by people 1667 01:31:28,542 --> 01:31:31,000 who feel as though abortion is terrible. 1668 01:31:31,083 --> 01:31:34,584 And we obviously had broken the law. 1669 01:31:34,667 --> 01:31:36,334 I thought, "This is really serious." 1670 01:31:36,417 --> 01:31:38,167 (CHUCKLES) "This is really serious." 1671 01:31:38,250 --> 01:31:41,334 ♪ (BOLD MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1672 01:31:49,167 --> 01:31:51,584 JUDITH: During the time between the bust 1673 01:31:51,667 --> 01:31:53,209 and the Grand Jury, 1674 01:31:53,292 --> 01:31:55,334 we were interviewing lawyers. 1675 01:31:56,334 --> 01:31:58,626 All but one, men. Of course. 1676 01:32:00,918 --> 01:32:04,417 The men were, in different ways 1677 01:32:04,500 --> 01:32:06,292 and with different tones, 1678 01:32:06,375 --> 01:32:10,834 were so condescending that it was impossible. 1679 01:32:10,918 --> 01:32:13,334 How could we possibly hire these guys 1680 01:32:13,417 --> 01:32:17,209 to represent us when they couldn't even see us? 1681 01:32:17,292 --> 01:32:20,459 In my own experience with the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, 1682 01:32:20,542 --> 01:32:23,876 I-- you know, I just knew that you could only trust 1683 01:32:23,959 --> 01:32:26,876 a few of them to handle political cases. 1684 01:32:29,167 --> 01:32:32,709 The lawyer that I knew was one of those people. 1685 01:32:32,792 --> 01:32:35,417 I called her up and said, "I got this case." 1686 01:32:36,542 --> 01:32:40,000 She was like, "Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, 1687 01:32:40,083 --> 01:32:42,459 -no, no, no, no, no, no, no." -♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 1688 01:32:42,542 --> 01:32:44,959 MARIE: I don't want anything to do with it." 1689 01:32:45,042 --> 01:32:47,125 She couldn't stand hippies. 1690 01:32:48,292 --> 01:32:49,959 "I'm like, "Okay, I got it. 1691 01:32:50,042 --> 01:32:52,918 But remember, you're a defense attorney, 1692 01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:56,292 and this is an important case. I'm part of this group, 1693 01:32:56,375 --> 01:32:58,250 even though I'm not a named defendant, 1694 01:32:58,334 --> 01:33:00,083 "and I need you to do this." 1695 01:33:02,667 --> 01:33:03,709 So, she did. 1696 01:33:04,542 --> 01:33:06,626 She said yes. Eventually. 1697 01:33:07,876 --> 01:33:09,167 SHEILA: Jo-Anne Wolfson, 1698 01:33:09,250 --> 01:33:12,459 unlike some of the others who seemed to want us 1699 01:33:12,542 --> 01:33:15,250 to make a big political statement, 1700 01:33:15,334 --> 01:33:18,792 maybe get to the Supreme Court with us, 1701 01:33:18,876 --> 01:33:20,834 Jo-Anne just wanted to get us off. 1702 01:33:21,876 --> 01:33:24,000 We were all kind of in sync on that. 1703 01:33:24,876 --> 01:33:27,834 MICHAEL: Jo-Anne was a great choice, 1704 01:33:27,918 --> 01:33:30,250 because she had a big mouth, 1705 01:33:30,334 --> 01:33:32,334 she didn't take crap from anybody. 1706 01:33:33,375 --> 01:33:35,250 She represented the Black Panthers, 1707 01:33:35,334 --> 01:33:37,334 so she wasn't afraid of politics 1708 01:33:37,417 --> 01:33:40,417 and she also wasn't afraid of the authorities. 1709 01:33:41,667 --> 01:33:42,876 JUDITH: This is what she looked like 1710 01:33:42,959 --> 01:33:45,417 the day she came to court for us. 1711 01:33:45,500 --> 01:33:48,000 She was wearing canary yellow pants, 1712 01:33:48,083 --> 01:33:50,626 a canary yellow sleeveless sweater, 1713 01:33:50,709 --> 01:33:55,709 she was carrying a canary yellow patent leather briefcase. 1714 01:33:55,792 --> 01:33:58,375 I don't remember the shoes, unfortunately. 1715 01:33:58,459 --> 01:34:00,167 And she had silver bangles. 1716 01:34:00,250 --> 01:34:02,542 This is a white woman with a deep tan, 1717 01:34:02,626 --> 01:34:06,334 silver bangles on her arms and from her ears. 1718 01:34:06,417 --> 01:34:09,209 And she talked like God. 1719 01:34:09,292 --> 01:34:12,209 She was so smart and so sharp 1720 01:34:12,292 --> 01:34:14,000 and she looked like that. 1721 01:34:14,083 --> 01:34:15,667 It was fabulous. 1722 01:34:15,751 --> 01:34:18,000 ♪ (TENSE ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1723 01:34:18,083 --> 01:34:20,876 JUDITH: Jo-Anne was aware that Roe v. Wade 1724 01:34:20,959 --> 01:34:23,626 was being considered by the Supreme Court. 1725 01:34:24,959 --> 01:34:27,292 So, she, um, stalled. 1726 01:34:29,042 --> 01:34:31,876 MICHAEL: She made garden-variety motions. 1727 01:34:31,959 --> 01:34:35,918 Motion to dismiss, supplemental motion to dismiss. 1728 01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:40,083 They'd have to be briefed and responded to and replied to. 1729 01:34:40,167 --> 01:34:41,709 All of which took time. 1730 01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:45,209 And so, delay, delay, delay. 1731 01:34:45,292 --> 01:34:47,209 And that, to me, was the perfect strategy. 1732 01:34:49,459 --> 01:34:52,959 ♪ (MUSIC BUILDS) ♪ 1733 01:35:08,918 --> 01:35:10,626 ♪ (MUSIC SWELLS, CONCLUDES) ♪ 1734 01:35:11,459 --> 01:35:14,042 January of '73, there it was. 1735 01:35:14,125 --> 01:35:16,250 Good evening. In a landmark ruling, 1736 01:35:16,334 --> 01:35:19,375 the Supreme Court today legalized abortions. 1737 01:35:19,459 --> 01:35:21,834 The majority, in cases from Texas and Georgia, 1738 01:35:21,918 --> 01:35:24,125 said that the decision to end a pregnancy 1739 01:35:24,209 --> 01:35:25,667 during the first three months 1740 01:35:25,751 --> 01:35:28,042 belongs to the woman and her doctor, 1741 01:35:28,125 --> 01:35:29,334 not the government. 1742 01:35:29,417 --> 01:35:32,459 Thus, the anti-abortion laws of 46 states 1743 01:35:32,542 --> 01:35:34,751 were rendered unconstitutional. 1744 01:35:34,834 --> 01:35:37,751 ♪ (PEACEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1745 01:35:41,918 --> 01:35:43,334 Ah, yes! 1746 01:35:43,751 --> 01:35:45,209 (LAUGHS) 1747 01:35:45,292 --> 01:35:47,542 It was a hallelujah. 1748 01:35:47,626 --> 01:35:49,834 Abortion would be legal and safe 1749 01:35:49,918 --> 01:35:53,167 throughout the United States for women and girls. 1750 01:35:53,250 --> 01:35:54,334 Truly amazing. 1751 01:35:54,959 --> 01:35:57,083 January 22nd, 1973 1752 01:35:57,167 --> 01:35:59,292 will stand out as one of the great days 1753 01:36:00,334 --> 01:36:02,626 for freedom and free choice. 1754 01:36:03,500 --> 01:36:05,250 This allows a woman free choice 1755 01:36:05,334 --> 01:36:07,125 as to whether or not to remain pregnant. 1756 01:36:07,209 --> 01:36:08,626 This is extraordinary. 1757 01:36:09,584 --> 01:36:10,792 HEATHER: The overwhelming majority 1758 01:36:10,876 --> 01:36:14,876 of the Supreme Court was in support of women's rights 1759 01:36:14,959 --> 01:36:18,500 to decide when or whether to have a child. 1760 01:36:19,542 --> 01:36:22,167 I remember just feeling like, 1761 01:36:22,250 --> 01:36:25,209 "Ugh, finally," feeling a sigh of relief. 1762 01:36:25,292 --> 01:36:26,334 We were thrilled, 1763 01:36:26,417 --> 01:36:29,250 and we thought it was over, you know? 1764 01:36:29,334 --> 01:36:32,250 Who knew what would be-- what would follow. 1765 01:36:32,334 --> 01:36:34,751 But we thought, "They-- We won!" 1766 01:36:34,834 --> 01:36:35,959 You know, it was over 1767 01:36:36,042 --> 01:36:39,459 and it was no longer our responsibility. 1768 01:36:41,125 --> 01:36:42,292 DIANE: Yeah... 1769 01:36:47,042 --> 01:36:48,209 I'm glad we could help them, 1770 01:36:48,292 --> 01:36:50,334 but-- but they shouldn't have had to go through it. 1771 01:36:52,792 --> 01:36:53,959 That's how I feel. 1772 01:36:56,083 --> 01:36:57,334 (SNIFFLES) 1773 01:36:57,417 --> 01:37:00,459 ♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪ 1774 01:37:11,417 --> 01:37:14,125 When the decision came down, 1775 01:37:14,209 --> 01:37:17,667 Jo-Anne Wolfson contacted the district attorney 1776 01:37:17,751 --> 01:37:19,292 and the charges were dropped. 1777 01:37:20,167 --> 01:37:21,292 It was joyous. 1778 01:37:21,375 --> 01:37:24,083 My friends weren't gonna go off to prison. 1779 01:37:24,167 --> 01:37:26,083 Oh, we were just so relieved. 1780 01:37:26,167 --> 01:37:27,918 We-- Just so relieved. 1781 01:37:30,542 --> 01:37:34,334 LAURA: We were really ordinary women, 1782 01:37:34,417 --> 01:37:39,626 and we were trying to save women's lives. 1783 01:37:39,709 --> 01:37:44,584 We wanted every woman who contacted us to be the... 1784 01:37:47,667 --> 01:37:49,709 the hero of her own story. 1785 01:37:51,542 --> 01:37:54,209 I mean, we felt such agency. 1786 01:37:54,292 --> 01:37:59,334 And we felt so empowered by saying, 1787 01:37:59,417 --> 01:38:00,584 "We're going to do this." 1788 01:38:02,042 --> 01:38:03,834 So, we wanted to share that, 1789 01:38:04,542 --> 01:38:07,667 that sense of personal power, 1790 01:38:07,751 --> 01:38:10,626 with women who weren't supposed to feel 1791 01:38:10,709 --> 01:38:13,042 a whole lot of powerfulness in their own lives. 1792 01:38:17,584 --> 01:38:20,292 We decided that that would be it. 1793 01:38:21,667 --> 01:38:26,375 And then we went on to the rest of our lives. 1794 01:38:27,375 --> 01:38:29,209 You know, that-- We came together 1795 01:38:29,292 --> 01:38:33,042 to do something at a time that it was most needed... 1796 01:38:34,500 --> 01:38:35,542 We did it. 1797 01:38:36,834 --> 01:38:39,667 And then it was time to do something else. 1798 01:38:39,751 --> 01:38:40,876 We were done. 1799 01:38:42,417 --> 01:38:43,626 So goodbye, Jane. 1800 01:38:43,709 --> 01:38:46,959 ♪ ("CHICAGO" BY GRAHAM NASH PLAYING) ♪ 1801 01:38:56,167 --> 01:38:58,918 ♪ So your brother's Bound and gagged ♪ 1802 01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:01,834 ♪ And they've chained him To a chair ♪ 1803 01:39:01,918 --> 01:39:06,375 ♪ Won't you please Come to Chicago just to sing ♪ 1804 01:39:07,834 --> 01:39:10,459 ♪ In a land that's known As freedom ♪ 1805 01:39:10,542 --> 01:39:13,459 ♪ How can such a thing Be fair? 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♪ 1826 01:40:30,125 --> 01:40:33,167 ♪ Open up the door ♪ 1827 01:40:38,918 --> 01:40:41,709 ♪ Somehow people must be free ♪ 1828 01:40:41,792 --> 01:40:43,876 ♪ I hope the day comes soon ♪ 1829 01:40:43,959 --> 01:40:46,751 ♪ Won't you please come To Chicago ♪ 1830 01:40:46,834 --> 01:40:48,542 ♪ Show your face ♪ 1831 01:40:50,042 --> 01:40:52,834 ♪ From the bottom of the ocean ♪ 1832 01:40:52,918 --> 01:40:55,709 ♪ To the mountains of the moon ♪ 1833 01:40:55,792 --> 01:40:58,709 ♪ Won't you please come To Chicago ♪ 1834 01:40:58,792 --> 01:41:01,584 ♪ No one else Can take your place ♪ 1835 01:41:01,667 --> 01:41:07,459 -♪ We can change the world ♪ -♪ Yes we can change the world ♪ 1836 01:41:07,542 --> 01:41:12,459 -♪ Rearrange the world ♪ -♪ Rearrange the world ♪ 1837 01:41:12,542 --> 01:41:13,792 ♪ It's dying ♪ 1838 01:41:13,876 --> 01:41:16,375 -♪ If you believe in justice ♪ -♪ It's dying ♪ 1839 01:41:16,459 --> 01:41:19,250 -♪ If you believe in freedom ♪ -♪ It's dying ♪ 1840 01:41:19,334 --> 01:41:22,167 -♪ Let a man live his own life ♪ -♪ It's dying ♪ 1841 01:41:22,250 --> 01:41:25,751 ♪ Rules and regulations Who needs them? ♪ 1842 01:41:27,083 --> 01:41:32,834 ♪ Open up the door ♪ 1843 01:41:32,918 --> 01:41:34,125 ♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪