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¿"It's a passionate rush of language, hope in a hard time, truth in the middle of lies. This poetry sparks and burns with the hidden language and stories of women" -Minnie Bruce Pratt Judith Arcana, a reproductive rights activist formerly involved in Chicago's pre-Roe v. Wade underground abortion service, imbues her poetry, fiction and essays with the same ferocity, humor and passion that informs her activism. As Grace Paley wrote, "What I l...

A compelling story of one woman's work with Jane, Chicago's pre-Roe underground abortion service. The narrator explores the nuance of how we remember and the mysteries of memory itself as she recalls the time the Chicago Police busted the service.

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Judith Arcana's remarkable feat in Hello. This is Jane. is to paint, tile by tile, a complex mosaic of compelling linked stories- children's playgrounds and adult tattoo parlors, ill-advised lovers and underground abortion activists. In the mainstream and on the edges, you'll feel the urgency of the struggle for reproductive justice as you turn these pages." -Cindy Cooper, Founding Director of Words of Choice and The Reproductive Freedom Festi...

Before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the U.S. in 1973, the Abortion Counseling Services of Women's Liberation was a group of over one hundred women in Chicago who each anonymously answered to "Jane." When the group started in 1969, even providing information about abortion was a criminal act. Still, abortions were being sought and performed--and many people died as a result of the black market conditions of a procedure gone awry. Jane's ro...

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