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Great film & important issue

By Tyler LePard Apr 2nd 2007 at 2:52 pm EDT

I also was moved by watching this film at WAM and would encourage reproductive health advocates to view and promote "I Had An Abortion."

In Addition to the WAM conference, the CLPP "From Abortion Rights to Social Justice" conference took place at Hampshire this past weekend. Eesha Pandit interviewed a few of the dynamic leaders in the international reproductive justice movement at the CLPP conference. Watch the video from the first post in her "Dispatches from the Revolution" series at RH Reality Check:

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2,700

By Dana Goldstein - Apr 1st, 2007 at 2:48 pm EDT

Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog

That's the number of women who died annually from botched abortions in the 1930s, when birth control and abortion were both illegal.

I'm still here in Cambridge at the Women, Action, Media! conference, and I'm watching a screening of "I Had an Abortion," a documentary that features 10 women, 21 to 85, who've had an abortion. The first woman to tell her story in the film had an underground abortion in 1938. When she contracted an infection in the following days and sought care at a hospital, the nurses shunned her because she refused to reveal who had performed her abortion.

Another woman was hauled in front of a New York City grand jury in the 1950s and asked to testify against the kind doctor who had performed her abortion.

Never forget.

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