The PGA East Diversity Committee, Documentary Committee &
PGA Women's Impact Network invite you to a Pre-Broadcast screening of...

 
Q&A and Reception to Follow

 With Director Dawn Porter (GIDEON'S ARMY) and Producer Marilyn Ness*
Q&A moderated by the film's Co-Executive Producer Audrey Rosenberg*
*PGA member

Friday, June 17 at 7:00pm
Doors open at 6:30pm
SVA Social Documentary Screening Room
136 West 21st St., First Floor, btwn 6th & 7th Aves.

U.S. abortion clinics are fighting to survive. Since 2010, hundreds of laws regulating abortion clinics have been passed by conservative state legislatures, particularly in the South. These restrictions, known as TRAP laws (or Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers), masquerade as regulations designed to protect women’s health, but in fact have a singular purpose: to ban abortion by saddling clinics with onerous regulations that are exceedingly difficult and costly to satisfy. As the battle heads to the U.S. Supreme Court in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, TRAPPED follows the plaintiff and legal team leading the case as well as the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers fighting to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women, many of whom are poor and uninsured.


TRAPPED's release coincides with events that could affect
reproductive rights for generations to come.

LEGISLATION 288 new restrictions to abortion care have been enacted by states since 2010. The laws ban certain procedures, regulate providers and even limit insurance coverage.

SUPREME COURT The Supreme Court will  soon decide Whole  Women's Health v.  Hellerstedt  — a case that argues the constitutionality of a far- reaching Texas law  that dramatically restricts abortion access.

PUBLIC OPINION According to a recent Politico poll, roughly 70 percent of registered American voters believe the government should not restrict abortion access.