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#1 The first voice Jenny heard after the anesthetic wore off was the surgeon’s. The sterilization procedure was a success, and you’re eight weeks pregnant. Jenny was twenty-six, the mother of two young children, and had been suffering from lymphatic cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, for the past two years.

#2 Jenny had never viewed abortion as a women’s liberation issue, even though she knew how important it was to address the problems women faced. She was afraid that if abortion was made into a women’s issue, women might become alienated from women’s liberation.

#3 Jenny had been an advocate of women’s rights for most of her adult life. She was raised on the stories of her great-aunt Lillian, a suffragette, who had once chained herself to the gates of the White House. She was active on civil liberties and civil rights issues in college.

#4 In 1965, women in the Movement began raising the issue of women’s second-class status in the Movement and in society in general. By the fall of 1967, radical women realized they needed to form their own movement.

Summary of Laura Kaplan's The Story of Jane

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