Abortions before Roe

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🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Before Roe v. Wade, Eleanor Oliver was a Jane: a member of a group in Chicago that helped women get safe but illegal abortions. Sean Rameswaram sat down with her on the day Roe was overturned. This episode was edited and fact-checked by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and produced by Victoria Chamberlin and host Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This summer when we all got the news that Roby Wade had just been overturned by the Supreme
0:04.9	Court, my first thought was to call it Jane.
0:07.0	Hello.
0:08.0	I asked her if she'd heard the news.
0:13.6	What news?
0:15.7	This Jane had fought for women's rights in the 1960s, equal pay, childcare, and the right
0:21.3	to choose, the right to have an abortion.
0:24.7	She helped women get illegal abortions in Chicago in the late 1960s, early 70s, before
0:30.8	Roby Wade.
0:32.3	But on that fateful Friday this summer, I was the one who told her Roby Wade had been
0:37.0	overturned.
0:38.0	Women are still going to have abortions.
0:40.0	That's not going to change anything.
0:42.0	That's not going to change a damn thing.
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