Tag: Roe v. wade

More Wisdom from “The Janes”

Judith Arcana and Sheila Avruch weigh in on Jewishness in abortion justice and how they got involved in an underground abortion collective.

Wisdom from the Original Jane Collective

Judith Arcana and Sheila Avruch recall their days in the early 1970s, helping Chicagoans who “called Jane” for abortion referrals.

Abortion or Death

Decades later, at a Jewish symposium on abortion, a male leader self-righteously intoned, “Abortion is never an easy decision.” He’d obviously never been there.