NFB Collection
Illegal Abortion
196625 min 16 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Robin Spry
Production: Guy Glover
Script: Robin Spry
A dramatization that illustrates the situation of a young couple, particularly of the young woman, faced with an unwanted pregnancy and desiring an abortion forbidden by law. The film portrays her dilemma from the time the pregnancy is confirmed by her doctor to the harrowing moments in a back room where it is terminated by an illegal practitioner. For adult audiences.
Availability
Subject categories
- Sexuality and Reproduction > Abortion
- Law and Crime > Abortion
- Women > Family LifeSexuality and Reproduction
- Families > Sexuality and ReproductionSociety and the FamilyWomen
Credits
- director
- Robin Spry
- script
- Robin Spry
- producer
- Guy Glover
- photography
- Robert Nichol
- editing
- Roy Ayton
- sound editing
- Victor Merrill
- cast
- Sabina Fircks
- Frank Heron
- Elaine Ives Cameron
- Ken James
- Bill Lynn
- Walter Massey
- Vladimir Rajewsky
- David Schurmann