Social Justice Film Festival - Jackson
Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8pm
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Jackson takes an intimate look at the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi and the lives of three women caught up in the complex issues surrounding abortion access.
Screens With:
Personhood
PERSONHOOD, a feature-length documentary, shines light on a new era of maternal criminalization and exposes a widely unknown system of laws that treats pregnant women as an underclass. The film follows a new mom as she raises her son and fights to change a Wisconsin law that stripped her of nearly every constitutional right while pregnant. PERSONHOOD asks: can women be full members of society if their fetus in a separate legal person?
Screening: 20 minute excerpt from the film, which is currently in post-production.
Director/Producer: Jo Ardinger
Producer: Rosalie Miller
