A Womb With a View: Exploring Reproductive Choice through Film
- Feb 7, 2008 (Thursday), 5pm and 7:30pm screenings.
- At Elliot Building, Room 167, UVic
- By donation.
The UVic Women’s Studies Equity & Outreach Committee in conjunction with the WS Course Union, is hosting a 3 day film festival exploring issues of reproductive choice!
5:00pm: “Jane: An Abortion Service”
A documentary about Jane, an underground abortion service operated by a group of radical women in 1970s Chicago when abortion providers and seekers were still being criminalized murderers.
7:30pm: “Citizen Ruth”
“Citizen Ruth” pokes fun at both the anti-choice and pro-choice positions. As Ruth, the stereotype of an unfit mother, goes through her pregnancy, she gains the attention of pro-choice and anti-choice groups who seek to sway her in their favour.
Each film with be followed up with a brief question period, facilitated by members of WS E & O.
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UVic Women’s Studies Equity & Outreach Committee says…
We have organized this event to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Morgentaler decision, the landmark case which finally acknowledged women’s legal right to reproductive choice in Canada. But we also want to take discussion around reproductive choice further: We want to examine and discuss what reproductive choice really means in Canada and around the world, legally, theoretically, and in practice. We want to move public discussion about reproductive choice away from the more popular pro-choice/anti-choice debate.
We would greatly appreciate your attendance at this event, even if you can only make it for one film. Please see the schedule below!
Pro-choice buttons, patches, and baked goods will be available for sale!
