Jane: Abortion and the Underground relives the bad old days of covert abortions
Back in 1992, just after she'd published her first book, Feminist Fatale, and became the de facto spokeswoman for Gen X feminists, Paula Kamen appeared on a panel about feminism past and present. One of the other panelists mentioned Jane, the Chicago abortion collective that ran from 1969 until the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. "I didn't believe it was real," Kamen says now. And even now it seems sor…