The team behind “Call Jane” is bringing its on-screen activism to the real world. In collaboration with local and national abortion care providers like Planned Parenthood and Abortion Care Network, the Phyllis Nagy-directed pic will screen at clinics across the country to support service providers and increase awareness of the reality of abortion access. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.
“Though set in 1968, ‘Call Jane’ shows us why we must protect access to abortion,” commented Caren Spruch, Planned Parenthood’s national director of arts and entertainment engagement. “Today, in too many states, archaic and dangerous abortion bans are taking us backward and stripping people of the freedom to make decisions