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Women's Things (1978)

Women's Things (1978)

Drama Documentary
Release Date: 1978, January 1
Directors: Rosa Martha Fernández
Countries: Mexico
Production: Colectivo Cine Mujer, Colectivo Cine Mujer, Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC), Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC), UNAM, UNAM

Overview:

A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports clandestine abortion in Mexico, with interviews with women who have had abortions in that hospital and shocking maternal death statistics from procedures carried out under unsafe conditions.