Michelle Williams is earning raves for her comedic turn as Amy Schumer’s boss in “I Feel Pretty,” but the four-time Oscar nominee just signed on to another drama. She’s teaming up with “Boys Don’t Cry” director Kimberly Peirce for “This Is Jane,” a feature about an underground abortion network known as “Jane.” Deadline broke the news.

Based on Laura Kaplan’s nonfiction book “The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service,” the film will tell the story of the network’s founder, known as Jenny (Williams),  as well as the network itself, a group of self-taught women who provided abortions in Chicago in the pre-Roe v. Wade years. Jane also provided health education and counseling to its patients. The collective helped over 11,000 women get illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973.

Williams is among the project’s producers.

A number of other films about abortion are in the works: Rachel Carey’s “Ask for Jane”  is also about Chicago’s Jane Collective, as is Elisabeth Moss-starrer “Call Jane.” And “Harlots” producers Alison Owen and Debra Hayward are developing a film about Roe v. Wade, the historic Supreme Court decision that granted all U.S. women the right to an abortion.

Williams has received Oscar nods for her roles in “Manchester by the Sea,” “My Week with Marilyn,” “Blue Valentine,” and “Brokeback Mountain.” Her upcoming projects include “Spider-Man” spin-off “Venom” and “After the Wedding,” an English-language remake of Susanne Bier’s Oscar-nominated drama co-starring Julianne Moore.