This film gives us a look into the fearless women of our country and how, regardless of the roadblocks and restrictions, women have always been and always will be there for each other. In this masterminded plan to provide women with access to safe abortions, The Janes created history in their efforts to banding together and sparking activism.

I'm baffled. I think this doc got such great reviews because the characters are so sympathetic and the issue is timely but damn is it boring. My wife and I fell asleep. What a slog. It's so formulaic.

An excellent documentary about a group of young women in the mid '60s who started helping women obtain safe abortions.

So inspiring and educational. Sad to see they may need to be resurrected with a new generation.

The greatest 01 hour: and 41 minutes ever from a true story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was horrible thoughi it might be ok but man, it s+cked bad

It had not heart. Like watching Ted Bundy telling how he helped people and his ethics where superior to ours

This documentary is a must watch and critically important to women's rights now and in the future. I would never have dreamed that we'd be headed back to 50 years ago when these brave Janes were helping women to make a choice in the absence of their own rights and freedom. I am sad, angry and disgusted with the extremist minority that has sent us back to this time. Please watch, especially for a man, this film provides a much needed perspective of how badly the infusion of religion and male-controlled politics have robbed women of democracy.

A compelling documentary that matters now more than ever.

The Janes of the title were a group of dedicated women in 1960s Chicago who helped to facilitate (and eventually even perform) abortions. They would meet their clients--many of them poor, more than a few of them mothers already, all of them frightened and with nowhere else to turn--and then chauffeur them to someone's home for the procedure. (The Janes provided something that was desperately needed in those pre-Roe v. Wade days: safe procedures by reliable physicians, and with the promise of adequate follow-up care, as well.) This is very much a "talking heads" movie, as one Jane after another is interviewed on camera; complementing their appearances is archival footage of some of the other political movements of the day, including the Vietnam protests and the confrontations outside Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention. We meet the fellow, identified only as Mike, who back in the day performed abortions (apparently with a good deal of skill and sympathy) despite having no medical background whatsoever; we even meet the Chicago detective ordered to find these abortion pioneers, and arrest them. (All the cases were dismissed, of course, with the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973, and the Janes disbanded soon after.) "The Janes" is horrifying and heartbreaking and, for anyone interested in the history of women's reproductive rights, enlightening, too. It's more topical than ever, and should not be missed. ("Jane", by the way, was a code word. Anyone in need of help was told to call and ask for "Jane". The women's real names were never used.)

What an incredible documentary. And incredible brave women who made the difference.

Must watch for everyone. Especially now