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The Morning Show
Tuesday, July 5, 2022, 7:00am
By Joel Patenaude

A group of women activists in Chicago facilitated as many as 11,000 abortions in the early 1970s, when the procedure was illegal. Several of the women recount that harrowing time in the HBO documentary “The Janes.” A director of the film joins us.

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