Nell Minow
TRAP stands for Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers. “Trapped” is a powerful new documentary that focuses on efforts to cut off women’s access to abortion by imposing requirements and restrictions on clinics that have no relationship to health or safety.
It could not be more timely, released the same week that the most significant challenge to Roe v. Wade was argued in the Supreme Court, just after the death of Justice Scalia makes a 4-4 split decision a possibility
Above the Law
by Katherine N. Rubino
If you’ve been paying attention, you are aware of the erosion of reproductive freedoms in this country. Usually draped in a veil of concern over women’s health, state-level restrictions on abortion providers have, directly or indirectly, drastically reduced the options for women. The gap between the theoretical right to abortion and the practical ability to exercise that right has become a chasm. Read complete story >
Cedar Creek Productions latest project, TRAPPED, is in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2016, January 21-31, 2016 in Park City, Utah.
Across America, but particularly in the South, abortion clinics are in a fight for their existence. Since 2010, legislators across America vowing to make their states “abortion free” have introduced hundreds of anti-choice bills. Caught in the political quagmire are millions of women of reproductive age, many of them poor and uninsured. Their only hope? The men and women of TRAPPED, who are fighting to turn the tide and fulfill the protections guaranteed by Roe v. Wade.
As the legal and political fight escalates, what remains of an American woman’s right to choose?