Backroom Troubles
Jan 01, 1997 | IMDB 0
51 min Watch NowDocumentary
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 was socially and morally expected of them.
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