COLLECTIVE MEMORY
24 JUNE 2022.
A date surely burnt into the consciousness of many. The day that the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling established in 1973 that enshrined abortion as a constitutional right. For the cast and creators of Call Jane, it was not entirely a surprise. After all, one of Donald Trump’s outgoing acts as president was to appointment Republican-leaning judges to the highest court in the land. “I knew something awful was going to happen,” sighs director Phyllis Nagy. “I just didn’t think it would be this awful.”
Since ’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, it’s moved right into the centre of the conversation. Beginning in August 1968, it follows one woman’s induction into the Jane Collective, a group who helped pregnant women get safe abortions when it was illegal in the US to do so. “The relevance of it is scary,” notes Kate Mara, who co-stars alongside Elizabeth Banks and
