Der Film erzählt die wahre Geschichte von Abby Johnson, die acht Jahre Leiterin einer Beratungs- und Abtreibungsklinik war und dann zur überzeugten Abtreibungsgegnerin wurde. Abby, die als Studentin begann, leitet mittlerweile eine der größten Kliniken bei „Planned Parenthood“, einem Unternehmen, dass auch Abtreibungen anbietet. Als sie eines Tages selbst Zeugin einer Abtreibung wird, verändern diese Geschehnisse alles.
An animated history of American health care provider, Planned Parenthood.
DER WUNSCH begleitet das Liebespaar Maria und Christiane über zehn Jahre auf ihrer emotionalen Reise, sich einen Lebenswunsch zu erfüllen: ein gemeinsames Kind. Die Regisseurin erzählt einfühlsam, wie das Paar mit zunehmenden Herausforderungen und Krisen umgeht und von den sich verändernden komplexen Beziehungsdynamiken der beiden Frauen. DER WUNSCH stellt dabei auch die Frage, was Liebe in einer romantischen Beziehung über lange Zeit eigentlich bedeutet.
Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014, The Law brilliantly traces three days, in late Fall 1974, of stormy debate in the French National Assembly, around a bill which would make "voluntary termination of pregnancy" legal. Behind this bill stands a lone woman brilliantly played by a remarkable Emmanuelle Devos (also in The Other Son): Simone Veil the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. During these three days of violent debate Veil, a Jew and Holocaust survivor, is spared nothing: political negotiations, solitude, sparring arguments, insults and violence to her family. In spite of all of this, Veil never wavers.
Free-spirited university student Rafaela’s carefree life is shaken when she falls pregnant. Desperate to get an abortion in a country where doing so could land her in jail and unable to fund one illegally, her situation shakes her world. But thankfully, she doesn’t face it alone by virtue of her best friend and sidekick, Gabriela. In her directorial debut, Hyland skilfully captures the incongruity of the inseparable duo’s lives as they move between their fuzzy pink apartment and the rough and raw backstreets of Santiago.
A teenage girl undergoes the uncomfortable and intrusive process of acquiring a birth control prescription.
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.
In an alternate timeline where women are educated and obligated to bear children, one student struggles to change her fate.
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.
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.
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.
When Women Won tells the emotional inside story of the Together for Yes campaign to repeal the 8th amendment and change Irish society forever.