Abby Johnson (Ashley Bratcher) es una de las directoras más jóvenes de las clínicas "Planned Parenthood" que existen en la nación. Ejerciendo ese cargo ha estado involucrada hasta en 22.000 abortos y ha aconsejado a innumerables mujeres con respecto a la toma de decisiones relacionadas con la reproducción. Su pasión por la materia la llevaría a convertirse en la portavoz de la franquicia, luchando por establecer la legislación en que la ha que creído firmemente desde su adolescencia. Sin embargo, un día su perspectiva toma un inesperado rumbo tras presenciar algo que la marcará de por vida.
An animated history of American health care provider, Planned Parenthood.
Maravilloso biopic protagonizado por Emmanuelle Devos que cuenta la historia de la mujer que consiguió sacar adelante, contra viento y marea, la Ley del Aborto en Francia. Otoño 1974, el Presidente francés Valéry Giscard d’Estaing le encarga a su Ministra de Sanidad, Simone Veil, una sobrecogedora tarea: sacar adelante la ley del aborto. Durante tres días, deberá defender su texto delante de los parlamentarios con una tenacidad ejemplar. Diane, una joven periodista, hace de este hecho el sujeto de su primera investigación, y en el transcurso de la misma descubrirá un cambio considerable en el estatus social de la mujer.
Rafaela (20) y Gabriela (21) son mejores, mejores amigas. El inesperado embarazo de Rafa, amenaza el rosado y extravagante oasis que han construido. El aborto en Chile es ilegal, pero no imposible y juntas deberán enfrentar la hostilidad del sistema, para realizarse el procedimiento sin reventar su preciosa burbuja ni su relación.
Love Alone Can’t Make a Child chronicles the love story and emotional odyssey of Maria and Christiane who, for over a decade, have been trying to fulfil their desire of giving birth to a child of their own. The director, a childhood friend of Maria, lovingly narrates the couple's journey, showcasing their resilience in the face of ever-increasing challenges, and the intricate dynamics of a relationship under tremendous strain. More than anything else, the film continually pursues what love truly means in a long-term romantic relationship.
Both cautionary tale and rallying cry, Shouting Down Midnight recounts how the Wendy Davis filibuster of 2013 galvanized a new generation of activists and reveals what is at stake for us all in the struggle for reproductive freedom.
Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them. This film provides a historical overview of how church, state and the medical establishment have determined policies concerning abortion. From this cross-cultural survey--filmed in Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia, and Canada--emerges one reality: only a small percentage of the world's women has access to safe, legal operations.
Amá is a feature length documentary which tells an important and untold story: the abuses committed against Native American women by the United States Government during the 1960’s and 70’s: removed from their families and sent to boarding schools, forced relocation away from their traditional lands and involuntary sterilization. The result of nine years painstaking and sensitive work by filmmaker Lorna Tucker, the film features the testimony of many Native Americans, including three remarkable women who tell their stories - Jean Whitehorse, Yvonne Swan and Charon Aseytoyer - as well as a revealing and rare interview with Dr. Reimart Ravenholt whose population control ideas were the framework for some of the government policies directed at Native American women.
A teenage girl undergoes the uncomfortable and intrusive process of acquiring a birth control prescription.
In an alternate timeline where women are educated and obligated to bear children, one student struggles to change her fate.
When Women Won tells the emotional inside story of the Together for Yes campaign to repeal the 8th amendment and change Irish society forever.
Women are being jailed, physically violated and at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.
This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jane", the Chicago-based women's health group who performed nearly 12,000 safe illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973 with no formal medical training. As Jane members describe finding feminism and clients describe finding Jane, archival footage and recreations mingle to depict how the repression of the early sixties and social movements of the late sixties influenced this unique group. Both vital knowledge and meditation on the process of empowerment, Jane: An Abortion Service showcases the importance of preserving women's knowledge in the face of revisionist history. JANE: AN ABORTION SERVICE was funded by the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.