MOTHERLESS: A LEGACY OF LOSS FROM ILLEGAL ABORTION

MOTHERLESS: A LEGACY OF LOSS FROM ILLEGAL ABORTION

    Price: $99.95

    Code: 1644

    Through interviews with people whose mothers died due to complications from abortion before its legalization, this video examines the tragedy of deaths from illegal abortions and the trauma of losing a mother at a young age. Social and historical context for these emotionally powerful interviews is provided by a physician who treated hundreds of women dying from septic abortions and a medical historian, who discuss the medical, legislative and social history of abortion from the late nineteenth century until its legalization in 1973.

    Directed by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Diane Pontius
    1994, 30 minutes
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