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Before Roe v. Wade, a secret group provided abortions. Two new films tell the story.

Before Roe v. Wade, Heather Booth started an underground network to help women obtain illegal abortions. Known as the "Jane Collective," it's the subject of two films at Sundance this year.
Heather Booth, pictured in 2009, when she was the Director of Americans for Financial Reform. A long-time progressive activist, in the 1960s she started an underground effort to help women get abortions, which were illegal at the time.

Months before the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, seven women were arrested in a police raid of an underground illegal abortion service in two South Chicago apartments, and charged with counts of abortion or conspiracy to commit an abortion.

With Roe v. Wade declaring abortion a constitutional right, the charges against the seven women were dropped and the service they belonged to, the Jane Collective, dissolved.

Now, nearly 50 years later, the Supreme Court to possibly overturn or substantially change that decision. And this month's is featuring a pair of films that focus on the clandestine organization — one a HBO documentary called which interviews many of the arrested women; the other a narrative drama titled , which stars Sigourney Weaveris still finalizing a distributor, but aims to be in theaters later this year. will air on HBO, also later this year. The two are part of a on reproductive rights, including

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