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How to Plot an Abortion

The LRB Podcast

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The Importance of Storytelling in Abortion

Abortion is not legal in the UK. But under certain circumstances, it's allowed. If you can bring forward a reason related to either fetal abnormality or a danger to the mental or physical health of the mother, you can sidestep the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act. So in a sense, it requires storytelling. And I think one of the films I talk about in the piece is it's never rarely sometimes always a US film. I think it's 2020. It does this amazing job of merging a kind of road movie because it's a film about problem of access in Pennsylvania.

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