Discussing the book The Story of Jane: The Legendary Feminist Abortion Service with the author and former member of Jane, Laura Kaplan Topics.

The story of Jane: the legendary underground feminist abortion service.

Sadie Sink as 'Young Lori'from left, Charlie Shotwell 'Young Brian,' Ella Anderson 'Young Jeannette,' Woody Harrelson 'Rex Walls.' Naomi Watts 'Rose Mary Walls' and Eden Grace Redfield as 'Youngest Maureen' in 'The Glass Castle.' (Jake Giles Netter / Lionsgate)ĭestin visited me, read my father's journals and met my mother.Įventually, determined to reclaim women's reproductive power in any way they were able, many members of Jane learned to perform abortions themselves.Īn extraordinary history by one of Jane's members, The Story of Jane is an urgent account of the organization's development, the conflicts within the group, and the impact its work had on both the women it helped and the members themselves. Mom does not fit a lot of people's preconceptions of what a mother should be, and whether you like her is for me a litmus test of whether you're willing to accept people for who and what they are.ĭestin not only liked Mom, he completely understood her.Īnd she adored him. They're very nonjudgmental.'ĭestin noticed the oil paint on Mom's hands, a hazard of being an artist, and he took a picture of them so he could get it right for the film. He went through the hundreds of paintings she has stored in the two sheds behind her cottage, and he liked them so much he decided to include them in the movie. He even got Mom to paint a special portrait, based on my father, but with the face of Woody Harrelson, who plays Dad.ĭestin also went to Welch, the small town in southern West Virginia where I'd spent my teen years. Set during the terror of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities follows the influence of historical and political upheaval on a small group of individuals: Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who rejects his family and its tradition of terrorizing the lower classes Dr. Manette, a physician whose 18-year imprisonment in the bastille left him bereft of his senses and a symbolic hero for the masses Lucie, the daughter of Manette who unknowingly marries the descendent of her father's oppressors Sydney Carton, Darnay's drunken lawyer who finds meaning in life through an unrequited love for Lucie and Madame Defarge, a mob leader whose sheer rage at the oppression of the lower classes is woven into her knitting and who schemes for vengeance. Bookended by Darnay's two trials (the first, a false accusation of spying against the British the second, a mob trial based on the deeds of Darnay's ancestors), this adaptation of the Dickens classic explores the relationship between an individual and the historical and political forces that govern his or her times.

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