When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories (1992)

Directed by

Dorothy Fadiman

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

28 min

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Women and healthcare providers tell firsthand accounts of what it was like to get or assist with abortions before they were legal in the United States. The film focuses on the physical, emotional, and social costs they faced under those laws.

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What happens

When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories is a 1992 American short documentary film directed by Dorothy Fadiman. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The film consists of first person stories which reveal the physical, emotional and legal consequences of having or providing an abortion when it was a criminal act. The film is the first of three films called the Reproductive Rights Trilogy or "From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court & Beyond." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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