Laura Kaplan
Laura Kaplan was a founding member of the Emma Goldman Women’s Health Center in Chicago. A lifelong activist, she was a lay midwife and an advocate for battered women and nursing home residents, and now works locally on immigrant rights and criminal justice inequities.
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The Story of Jane
- By: Laura Kaplan
- Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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First published in 1997, The Story of Jane recounts the evolution of Jane, the underground group in Chicago that performed abortion services before the procedure was legalized. An extraordinary history by one of its members, this is the first... Read more
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