TRAPPED - Women's Reproductive Rights Threatened
7:00pm Wednesday June 8 - Bethel Cinema
Featuring Q&A And Meet n Greet After Party With:
Award Winning Filmmaker: Cindy Meehl (Buck) and Dr. Willie Parker
Reception compliments Of Michael Bick & Some Things Fishy Catering
From 2011 to 2013, hundreds of state regulations were passed restricting access to abortion in America. Reproductive rights advocates refer to these as "TRAP" laws, or Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers.While these laws have been enacted in states across the country, Southern clinics in particular are now in a fight for survival. In Texas, less than half of the clinics open in 2013 are still functioning. In Alabama, a handful of clinics struggle to keep their doors open. And in Mississippi, just one abortion clinic remains. Clinics are struggling to comply with requirements that the American Medical Association has deemed medically unnecessary. Despite this hostile environment, the doctors, clinic owners and staff refuse to give up. TRAPPED tells the personal stories of those most impacted by these regulatory battles from the physician who crisscrosses the country assuring medical services are still available to the determined women and men who run the clinics and struggle to meet the ever-changing regulations to the lawyers leading the legal charge to eliminate these laws to the women they are all determined to help. The men and women of TRAPPED fight to preserve abortion rights in a country where Roe v. Wade no longer protects a woman's right to choose.
Cindy Meehl is an artist and filmmaker, whose directorial debut, BUCK, earned the coveted Audience Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was shortlisted for an Academy Award®. More recently, she executive produced UNBRANDED, which won the Audience Award at HotDocs in 2015. Cindy's company, Cedar Creek Productions, is dedicated to creating the highest quality entertainment and bringing powerful stories to life. She seeks out projects that encompass hope, inspiration, grace and understanding.
Dr. Willie Parker
A longtime physician and abortion provider who refocused his career to offer reproductive health services for women in the South. For years he has traveled to clinics in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi to provide care where no one else would. He currently works and lives in the South and is a faculty member at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University. In addition to his M.D., Dr. Parker holds advanced degrees from Harvard and the University of Michigan.
https://vimeo.com/user3002186/trapped