A SUBURBAN MOM FINDS HER CALLING.

Elizabeth Banks is superb as Joy, a sunny upper-middle-class housewife who becomes a Jane herself. With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, dramas about the old days of illegal - and dangerous - abortions are no longer just shivery recollections about how things used to be. You could certainly say that of Phyllis Nagy's Call Jane, a drama inspired by a real-life network of activists: the Janes, a group of women in late-1960s and early- '70s Chicago who organized in secret to provide safe abortions for women in need. [Extracted from the article]

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