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Tell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women’s Stories

It Happens to Us

33m

Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild • 1972 • United States

Released a year before Roe v. Wade, this short film by Amalie Rothschild lays out the dire realities of illegal abortion, interviewing women from a variety of backgrounds who made the choice to terminate a pregnancy.

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