Birthright: A War Story
Streaming video - 2017
This is the real-life version of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” In America today, a radical movement has tightened its grip on state power, seeking to control whether and how women bear children. In this crusade, pregnant women are subject to state control, surveillance, and punishment. Even women who don’t want an abortion face shocking risks—like the pregnant woman in Alabama who faced criminal charges for taking half a Valium. Or like the grieving woman in Nebraska who, already devastated by a bleak diagnosis at 22 weeks, was forced to continue an unviable and dangerous pregnancy because of a new "fetal pain" law.. BIRTHRIGHT: A WAR STORY tells these stories of women caught up in a frightening new legal system, which criminal...izes and physically violates women, threatens our lives, and challenges our constitutional protections.. "Birthright: A War Story packs a powerful message: that reproduction has become perilous for women in America." - The New York Times
- Subjects
- Genres
- Documentary films
- Published
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Women Make Movies
2017.
2018. - Language
- English
- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image - Item Description
- Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Playing Time
- 01:40:31
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).