Movie

Women's Things

Cosas de mujeres

A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports clandestine abortion in Mexico, with interviews with women who have had abortions in that hospital and shocking maternal death statistics from procedures carried out under unsafe conditions.

Director

Rosa Martha Fernández

Screenplay

Rosa Martha Fernández

Status

Released

Release date

02/02/1979

Original language

Spanish