Aborto Sin Pena: Abortion Without Shame / Abortion without Penalty
A New Documentary About Three Women and Their Personal Struggle For Abortion Rights in Mexico
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Abortion is illegal in most circumstances in Mexico. Nevertheless it is estimated that over 500,000 abortions are performed each year in this Latin American nation. In fact, abortion will be the most frequently committed “crime” in Mexico in 2007.
Despite the widespread existence of unscrupulous clandestine abortion providers, thousands of women in Mexico have been lucky enough to find low cost, high quality abortion services provided by medical practitioners who believe in a woman´s right to choose. For most of these women, abortion access has helped them and their families to live happier lives.
“Aborto Sin Pena” (“Abortion without shame”) is a new documentary profiling three of these women: Yojany, Berenice, and Valentina. Each of them has chosen to tell her own personal experience with abortion on camera without hiding her face or her identity. This is a radical and political act in a country where abortion is still illegal. Their stories dispel the myth of “Post-Abortion Syndrome.”
Also featured on this new DVD are:
- An interview with the Vice-President of the Mexican National Pro-Life Committee, a powerful fundamentalist organization known for its crusade against gay rights and abortion access in Mexico.
- A ten minute documentary on the political debate surrounding a new law in Mexico City which will legalize abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. (Co-produced by canalseisdejulio.)
- An epilogue to “Aborto Sin Pena” featuring one woman´s journey to a Zapatista rebel stronghold in the Southeast Mexican State of Chiapas, where she proposes to civil society and Zapatista leaders that abortion rights be included in a new progressive national non-violent program for social change called the “Other Campaign.”
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