Getting an abortion by a trained healthcare professional was very expensive and often arranged secretly. Other illegal abortion providers included trained physicians and midwives who risked losing their medical licenses. Those that provided illegal abortions often had no medical training and used dangerous and unsanitary techniques that could cause severe medical complications, including infections and death. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, obtaining an abortion in the US was often expensive, unregulated, and unsafe. The Jane Collective was a healthcare initiative and a political education project that provided abortion and reproductive healthcare solutions to thousands of women and brought attention to the many unsafe illegal abortions done in Chicago. It is estimated that from 1969 to 1973 the Jane Collective provided nearly twelve thousand abortions. The organization, commonly referred to as Jane, was founded by women’s liberation activists in Chicago in 1969 to reduce the number of unsafe and expensive abortions being performed by unqualified providers. Formally called the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation, the Jane Collective was a member organization and working group within Chicago Women’s Liberation Union that challenged the Illinois state legislature by providing abortions before they were legal in the US. The Jane Collective was an underground organization that provided illegal abortion services in Chicago, Illinois, from 1969 until abortions became legal in 1973.
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