Movies: Abortion

Two young women retreat to a remote holiday home. While one of them undertakes a medical abortion, the other quietly cares for her. A snake slithers around them, unnoticed....

Intimate interview film in which three young women talk about the impact of choosing abortion. About the doubts, the shame and how this experience plays a role in their lives now. The film interweaves the interviews with powerful images that symboliz...

In a world populated entirely by puppets who are unaware of their condition, a young couple finds themselves aimlessly wandering through an amusement park, yearning for excitement. He is a workaholic, consumed by his job, while she is on the brink of...

An unplanned pregnancy impacts an Irish family, where pro life and pro choice views clash....

The film follows a pregnant woman on the path to her decision to have an abortion, from the talks with her mother and doctor, to the medical care after the abortion....

Procreation is the social duty of all fertile women, was the political thinking during the 1960s and 1970s in Romania. In 1966, Ceaucescu issued Decree 770, in which he forbade abortion for all women unless they were over forty or were already taking...

A woman reflects back on her time spent assisting abortion seekers when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land....

As the Arizona Supreme Court argues on whether to reinstate an abortion ban that originated in 1864, As Long As We Can offers a glimpse into the day-to-day activities of this, for now, still functioning clinic....

At a public hospital in Nicaragua, Ob/Gyn Dr. Carla Cerrato must choose between following a law that bans all abortions and endangers her patients or taking a risk and providing the care that she knows can save a woman's life. In 2007, Dr. Cerrato’s ...

An educational film on abortion....

This film shows contrasting views of women with problematic pregnancies and the outcomes resulting when they seek out a back-alley abortionist, a trained and licensed abortion provider in a clinic, or an obstetrician capable of performing a Caesarian...

After finding herself in an unstable relationship, Yasmina, a wedding planner discovers she is pregnant. Alone she takes the decision to have an abortion. Life gets in her way through different encounters making her decision questionable....

Unable to have kids, Nick an ex-con and Maryann a hard core christian, resort to the extreme to become parents. They kidnap a woman going in for an abortion and force her to have her baby for them....

Millions have seen the photograph, and no one who has seen it will ever forget it. A naked woman, dead from a botched illegal abortion, lying on a motel room floor. The picture appeared in Ms. Magazine in April 1973, and quickly became a symbol for t...

50 years ago, assemblyman George Michaels cast a single vote on New York's abortion bill that changed the course of American history but destroyed his political career in the process....

This film is about a teenager who struggles over his purpose and meaning in life. One day, he saves a child’s life and tells his girlfriend that that act may have been the reason he was born. That weekend, while cleaning his mom’s attic, he discovers...

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Exploring the rise of anti-abortion groups in Canada, the filmmaker also presents the feminist and pro-choice response that is being organized across the country....

The intimate portrait of M, a Brooklyn performance artist, whose life quickly spirals into absurdity as the reality of her unwanted pregnancy sets in....

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 pol...