WATCH: Sigourney Weaver urges women to facilitate illegal abortions on The View
On Tuesday’s episode of The View, actress Sigourney Weaver encouraged women to organize and provide abortions in places where they aren’t legal.
“I feel like a lot of us need to become Janes,” Weaver, whose new movie focuses on abortion, told the hosts.
“The Janes were a group in Chicago of women who came together to help women get safe abortions, which were impossible to get,” she explained.
‘I CHOSE GOD’: HOBBY LOBBY FOUNDER ANNOUNCES HE’S GIVING UP COMPANY OWNERSHIP
Call Jane, a new movie starring Weaver and Elizabeth Banks, takes place in a pre-Roe v. Wade America and follows an underground group of women as they facilitate illegal abortions. The film will be in theaters on Friday.
According to Weaver, the group’s goal is “to offer women a safe, loving, supportive, compassionate place in which to have a good procedure with a good outcome, and I find the group very inspiring.”
Banks told the hosts that “there are so many people right now judging women who are having abortion healthcare.”
She further described learning of the overturning of Roe over the summer.
“I woke up pretty devastated,” she said. “I woke up with less rights that day.”
“My children have fewer rights,” Banks claimed.
Weaver added that the issue is not political in her opinion, but she believes the movie is coming out at the perfect time, just before the midterm elections.
The veteran actress further claimed that women and their loved ones are being criminalized for getting abortions.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
“Get away from banning our bodies,” she continued.
