How Jane Collective's Founder Heather Booth Is Coping With a Post-Roe v. Wade Reality
glamour.comRoe v. Wade Chicago, and a subject of a new HBO documentary of The Janes, was a speaker at this year’s edition of Burch’s Summit.
A lifelong organizer, Booth refuses to bend to pessimism, but she understands the threat of illegal abortion all too well. “Certainly, it’s tragically likely that there will be women who are desperate and either do damage to themselves or go to someone else who does damage to them,” she told me.
And she understands that the end of Roe could spell the end of a host of other rights. “The dismantling of women’s freedom is also a dismantling of democracy itself,” she said.Backstage in the greenroom, I spoke with Booth about a post-Roe v.
Wade future, what we can do to protect women’s reproductive rights, and how to prevent the further dismantling of democracy.
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