Movies: Abortion

This film shows the work done by the "socorristas" feminist network. Through informative talks and stories about the actions of emotional containment these women have with others who need support, it seeks to eliminate the stigmas on abortions while ...

This Nigerian Nollywood movie is about a medical doctor who takes advantage of all the ladies that come for abortion in his hospital until he meets a girl from the village. This is a comedy movie. Part 2....

The bleached palette and home-movie aesthetics of Super 8 footage provide the image track for this testimonial about an illegal abortion in Mexico City in the 1960s, delivered in voiceover by the filmmaker’s mother. In its account of this intimate an...

A documentary about abortion and single mothers....

A young woman is forced to abort her child....

A young couple, an unplanned pregnancy, and a choice....

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 ...

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Women talk about the circumstances that drove them to seek illegal abortions and the often traumatic result. Interwoven with historical photographs and newsreel footage, the stories expose how the reality of women's lives were counterposed to what wa...

A pro-life serial killer stalks a young pregnant woman seeking an abortion....

A teenage girl is forced to upend her life after accidentally getting pregnant....

A single mother struggles to raise her only daughter on her own....

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Nineteen-year-old Tzalah is faced with an unwanted pregnancy, which prompts her to re-examine her co-dependent relationship with her mother, Bella....

This Nigerian Nollywood movie is about a medical doctor who takes advantage of all the ladies that come for abortion in his hospital until he meets a girl from the village. This is a comedy movie....

Documentary about the practice of abortion in France in the early seventies, at a time when it was still illegal....

A silent Christmas night at a sorority house turns into an unexplainable crime scene for Nadia Jones and her friends, when a recently released conman claims to be the father of her supposedly mutated child....

A mentally handicapped girl has been raped a few months ago. Her parents, Jalal and Maryam are trying to abort the baby and get rid of it but something worse happens...

The mother and daughter face the question of whether to keep the pregnancy or terminate it. Both are under pressure from relatives, friends, and doctors. Both are going through a difficult decision-making process. Each episode of the artistic part sh...

Melissa, 19, calls her boyfriend from a small public rest room, leaving two frantic messages, begging him to meet her there. She walks into an abortion clinic waiting room. Looking at the stricken faces of other women waiting, she must consider wheth...