General Information

Author/Creator

Jesus, Sherman de, director.

Subtitles

English

Published

Netherlands : Memphis Film & Television ; Humanistic Broadcasting Foundation, 2005.

Physical Description

DVD-ROM (60 min.)

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00003096

Contents/Summary

Summary

Every year, throughout the world, fifty million women have abortions and about thirty five thousand of these abortions are being performed in the Netherlands. Abortion is being legalized in the Netherlands thirty years ago and abortions have since then been carried out safely and in safe surroundings. The right to have an abortion in the Netherlands now seems so fundamental that it is difficult to imagine that it is still not a fundamental right in many countries in the world. This film shows the course of an average day at the oldest abortion clinic in the Netherlands. A seventeen year old girl tells her story and women that used to demonstrate at the clinic against abortion now come to the clinic with their own pregnant daughters. Has this acquired freedom changed personal and social attitudes? Is a woman’s decision to have an abortion any less painful now than it used to be?

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Note

Verzio Film Festival Submission

Library Special Collection

Verzio Film Festival Submission

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 1455	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 1455 (HU_OSA_00003096.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format