The Coat Hanger Project

This weekend at the National Women’s Studies Association conference, I met Angie Young, a filmmaker who created The Coat Hanger Project.
This film feels frighteningly relevant after what happened last weekend with the House’s health care reform bill and the Stupak amendment.
Rather than make abortion more accessible since Roe vs. Wade, abortions have become even less accessible. The number of providers has decreased, the number of laws restricting abortion throughout the states has increased, and access to funding for women receiving health care provided by the federal government (women on Medicaid, Medicare or military insurance) has been all but eliminated.
This fight for health care reform, which is absolutely necessary, has the potential to continue rolling back our access to abortion even farther.
The history Young documents in her film is more relevant than I ever assumed it would be in my lifetime. The movie also does a great job of explaining the Reproductive Justice movement through interviews with the leaders of the movement.
Details about how to purchase the film or arrange a screening are here.
And appropriately, you can take action against the Stupak amendment by sending a coat hanger to pro-choice Democrats who supported the Stupak amendment.

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