MaryAnn’s quick take… An enraging, essential documentary rundown of all the ways that women’s rights, agency, and bodily autonomy are under attack in the Us. It’s not just about abortion. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m a staunch and rabid feminist
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Do you know what the landmark 1973 United States Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade is all about? It seems like an easy question, but as we see in the enraging and incredibly necessary documentary Birthright: A War Story, many young American women do not know that it secured their legal right across the country to have an abortion. Tougher question: Do you know that, if you’re a female patient at a Catholic hospital in the Us with a reproductive-related medical issue, a bishop may get...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Do you know what the landmark 1973 United States Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade is all about? It seems like an easy question, but as we see in the enraging and incredibly necessary documentary Birthright: A War Story, many young American women do not know that it secured their legal right across the country to have an abortion. Tougher question: Do you know that, if you’re a female patient at a Catholic hospital in the Us with a reproductive-related medical issue, a bishop may get...
- 7/21/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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