From conversations between Madeleine Schwartz, a journalist, and members of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation, later known as Jane, an underground railroad for reproductive care that was started in Chicago in 1969. According to The Story of Jane, by Laura Kaplan, the service provided 11,000 abortions before it was shut down in 1973.

heather booth: In 1965, I was a college student at the University of Chicago. My friend’s sister was pregnant and not prepared to have a child. She was nearly suicidal, didn’t know what to do. My friend asked if I could…