When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories

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When Abortion Is Illegal: Untold Stories
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Film poster
Directed by Dorothy Fadiman
Produced byDanny McGuire, Beth Selzer, Daniel Myers, KTEH, and Dorothy Fadiman
Narrated by Dorothy Fadiman
Music byErika Luckett
Production
company
Concentric Media
Distributed byBullfrog Films [1]
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
Running time
28 minutes [2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories is a 1992 American short documentary film directed by Dorothy Fadiman. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. [3] [4] The film consists of first person stories which reveal the physical, emotional and legal consequences of having or providing an abortion when it was a criminal act. The film is the first of three films called the Reproductive Rights Trilogy or "From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court & Beyond."

References

  1. ↑ Coale, Kristi (August 1995). "When abortion was illegal". Progressive. 59 (8): 16. ISSN   0033-0736.
  2. ↑ "When Abortion was Illegal: Untold Stories". unaff.org. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ "The 65th Academy Awards (1993) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved October 22, 2011.
  4. ↑ "NY Times: When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . 2012. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
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