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  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade recognized the right of every woman in the United States to have an abortion. Since 2011, over half the states in the nation have significantly restricted access to abortions. In 2016, abortion remains one of the most divisive issues in America, especially in Missouri, where only one ab...

  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • 1 h 32 m

Abortion: Stories Women Tell

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade recognized the right of every woman in the United States to have an abortion. Since 2011, over half the states in the nation have significantly restricted access to abortions. In 2016, abortion remains one of the most divisive issues in America, especially in Missouri, where only one ab...

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90
Aug 10, 2016
A deeply personal film about the crisis in reproductive rights that manages to be even-handed, insightful and deeply moving.
By Claudia Puig FULL REVIEW
90
Aug 9, 2016
This doc is a tearjerker, but it's also enraging.
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80
Aug 11, 2016
If there is a through line that unites all the women in Abortion: Stories Women Tell, it’s that they take the potential responsibilities of parenthood very seriously. And no matter how tough and self-reliant they are, this decision is always an impossible one, and one that the outside world's unbending attitudes do not make any easier.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 9, 2016
Stories Women Tell does succeed at what it primarily means to do, which is to take abortion out of the realm of the theoretical and make it more personal.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 8, 2016
Tracy Droz Tragos's documentary examines its titular subject with a compassionate eye for regional detail.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 11, 2016
What Ms. Tragos succeeds in illustrating is that if you take away the signs and listen to the stories, there is little difference between women on opposite sides of the debate — at least in the region she covers.
By Helen T. Verongos FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 8, 2016
Tracy Droz Tragos works to get beyond us-versus-them simplicity in Abortion: Stories Women Tell, focusing on personal narrative over politics in a humanistic look at an issue that promises to remain divisive for the foreseeable future.
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Production Company HBO Documentary Films, Dinky Pictures
Release Date Aug 12, 2016
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating TV-14
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Website https://www.facebook.com/storieswomentell/
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Nomination
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 1 Nomination

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