THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Jody Howard
November 26, 1940 – February 5, 2010
“It’s time for new people to move in, a new generation. I will do everything in my power to teach them everything I know, but I would hope it wouldn’t be necessary.”
– Jody Howard, August 1989
Reproductive rights advocate. A co-founder of Jane: The Abortion Counseling Service. Wrote for local newspapers, campaigned for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, joined the ACLU board and got involved with the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union.
More About Jody:
- Obituary, The Chicago Tribune
- CWLU Herstory
- “Chicago’s Forgotten Pro-Choice Warriors,” by Marcia Froelke Coburn, Chicago Magazine, March 2019
- “Jane: An Abortion Service,” Produced and Directed by Kate Kirtz and Nell Lundy, 1995
- Jane: An Abortion Service, Chicago Women’s Liberation Union Herstory Project
- The Jane Collective on Wikipedia
- ‘Jane’ Play is a ‘dramatic documentary’ on abortion. October 7th, 1999.
- Underground abortion group prepares to pass the torch, 1989.
- Secret abortion group of ’60s prepares for return, 1989.
