Backroom Troubles

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Backroom Troubles

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In 1936 the McMillan Report indicated that more New Zealand women were dying from illegal abortions than anywhere else in the world. In March 2020 the Abortion Legislation Act removed abortion from the Crimes Act, finally securing the legal status of abortion in Aotearoa. In this documentary a group of Kiwi women who grew up in the 1940s, 50s and 60s (including Abortion Law Reform campaigner Dame Margaret Sparrow) talk about their often traumatising 'back room' abortions. They recall their la...

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Video

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1997

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/backroom-troubles-1997

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