How Filmmakers of ‘The Janes’ Documentary Confront Today’s Abortion Debate Through a 1960s Lens (Video)

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Call Jane,” a film starring Elizabeth Banks as a housewife in late-1960s suburban Chicago who seeks an abortion with the Jane Collective, where she is cared for by a member played by Sigourney Weaver. (Click here to read about Waxman’s conversation with the director and cast of “Call Jane.”)Lessin addressed how a story from 50 years ago could have resonance in 2022. “It’s a great story,” she said. “It’s set against the turmoil of the late ’60s and early ’70s Chicago, which was the epicenter of resistance and defiance at that time.

And these women were incredibly courageous in not just doing what they did, but then sitting in front of cameras and speaking about it.

These were ordinary women turned outlaws. What better story is there than that?” During the conversation, Stevens spoke candidly about her arrest at the age of 22. “I knew I was doing something illegal all along and I knew there was the possibility of going to jail,” she said. “When we were actually arrested, I felt that I was in a much better position than some of the other women.

In that I didn’t have children, I didn’t have a family. But I was willing to face it.”Arcana pointed out the danger of being arrested just wasn’t paramount in her mind. “We have to think about the difference between law and justice,” she said. “Law is somebody’s idea and if that somebody has the power to make it be the rule that everybody has to follow, then it’s a thing.