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joy-haver · 3 months

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Blessed is the aging activist,

Old beyond repair.

Planting trees they will not see the shade of.

Holding what was there.

Beloved is the old ecologist,

Seeds saved for me.

Taking time to tell the story,

Lineage braided into beads.

Beautiful is the old AIM sailor,

Ghost dance at Alcatraz.

Carving trails before we walked the way,

Tying future into past.

Blessed is the old abortionist,

Self trained nurse Jane.

Changing course of shifting rivers.

She held us through the pain.

Beloved is the Catholic worker

His Blood on atom bomb,

Knowing above, below, are together,

And that heaven is earth-to-come.

Beautiful is the old musician,

Protest song on tongue,

Taking the time to tell the story,

Of what has and will come.

#poem #text post #poetry #anarchism #aging #aging gracefully #activism #abortion #AIM #Catholic workers #protest music #bard for a cause #Jane collective #ecology

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cptsdceliac · 2 years

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Jane Collective

Aka Abortion Counseling Services of Women Liberation

An abortion resource during 1969-1973, when abortion was illegal in most of the USA.

Heather Booth helped her sister get a safe abortion in 1965, through word of mouth other women learned about this and asked Booth to help them with their own abortion. She teamed up with the women's liberation movement in Illinois to help women find access to safe abortions.

Eventually women in the group learned to perform safe abortions themselves, performing an estimated 11,000 abortions, many to low-income women and women of color.

In 1972 seven members were arrested and charged with eleven accounts of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion carrying a maximum prison sentence of 110 years. Charges were dropped due to Roe v. Wade being passed by the Supreme Court.

None of the women are known to have died due to the abortion they recieved.

#jane collective #heather booth #abortion #roe v casey #roe v wade #abortion is a human right #abortion is healthcare #healthcare #pro choice #abortion rights #keep abortion legal

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danepopfrippery · 2 years

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Be a friend of Jane’s! Free downloads, merch for sale and info for all at our site (art is free use to all pro choice and pro folx uses)

#jane lane #daria #pro choice #friend of janes #pro abortion #riot grrl #feminist #fuck terfs #jane collective

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higherentity · 2 years

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#women against abortion #abortion is healthcare #call jane #Martha Scott #Jeanne Galatzer Levy #Abby Parisers #Sheila Smith #Madeline Schwenk #Jane #Jane Collective #1972 #70s

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bargainsleuthbooks · 2 months

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All You Have to Do Is Call by Kerri Maher #BookReview #HistoricalFiction #Feminism #WomensFiction Berkley

#Allyouhavetodoiscall is the fictional story of several women in the days before #roevswade became the law of the land. Interesting #womensfiction for the #prochoice crowd. #kerrimaher #bookreview #audiobookreview #womensrights #feminism #abortionrights

A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for the right to choose, from the national bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller. Chicago, early 1970s Who does a girl call when she needs help? Jane. The best-known secret in the city, Jane is a women’s health organization composed entirely of women helping women, freeing them from…