If you mistakenly assumed Canada decriminalized abortion roughly around or even before Roe v. In Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall tells her story using three interwoven timelines.Īs the title might suggest, the matter of this “Jane” is central to Looking For Jane, a confident debut that offers a fascinating, often disturbing insight into the state of Canadian women’s reproductive rights in our recent history. “Call around, keep asking for Jane, and you’ll eventually get what you need.” “If you, or a friend, or any other girl close to you ends up pregnant when they don’t want to be, you need to call around to doctors’ offices and ask for Jane,” she says quietly. Instead, the woman closes the door, explains she’s recording her cousin’s case as a miscarriage and then says something unexpected. When another doctor appears in the doorway, she braces herself for another round of interrogation. She’s already dodged the accusations of a male doctor, who knows perfectly well how a young woman ends up almost hemorrhaging to death because of a perforated organ and has threatened her with the police. Terrified of getting them both in trouble – it is 1979, and procuring and conducting an abortion is still a criminal act – the young woman, named Nancy, is trying to evade a doctor’s questions. Her jeans are soaked with her cousin’s blood, who has been admitted after nearly collapsing on the subway while coming home from a backroom abortion. Log In Create Free AccountĪ young woman sits alone in an exam room of a Toronto emergency room.
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