Films about abortion in the United States (74 P). Pages in category "Films about abortion".
Because abortion is a moral obligation, an important health issue, and a necessary procedure that requires free and easy access for all, /Film presents 10 films that explore those notions.
The film also sheds light (albeit soft light) on how dangerous and inaccessible abortion was and still is for areas that place extreme restrictions on abortion.
This particular example perfectly highlights why Films About Abortion is so captivating.
While this list comprises more recent films, cinematic treatments of abortion extend as far back as Lois Webers 1916 silent film Where Are My Children...
Happening, the French director Audrey Diwans film based on Annie Ernauxs memoir, is a spare, haunting portrait of a young womans search for an illegal abortion in 1960s France.
Such details provide a deeper understanding and appreciation for Films About Abortion.
This film comes as women are increasingly denied access to abortion and as people across the Unites States face an unprecedented assault on the legal right to access it.
Female takes: choice and complexity. Films about abortion that are directed by women tend to embrace the ambivalence abortion can bring, or at least allow space for more...
Silent Choices (60 mins, 2007, New Day Films) "Illustrates the abortion issue through the lives of African American women, with both interviews and dramatic content.
