Abortion Rights in the US: Screening + Q&A
The state of reproductive rights two years after the Supreme Court revoked constitutional right to abortion
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Location
Frontline Club
13 Norfolk Place London W2 1QJ United Kingdom
Refund Policy
About this event
- Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes
The decision was decades in the making. Anti-abortion lawmakers and legal groups fought for years for the chance to take away what was a constitutional right for a generation of American women. On 24 June 2022, they won. The Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade, upending access to abortion care for millions of women.Within months of the decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, more than a dozen states moved to effectively outlaw all abortions, with criminal and civil penalties for providers and patients alike. Two years later, nearly half of all US states have criminalized abortion care in some form, while Democratic-led states have sought to become sanctuaries for the roughly 30 million women living under abortion bans.
An investigative series and documentary — The A-Word — from The Independent uncovers this “war on women” and the politically volatile debate over the future of critical healthcare for tens of millions of Americans.
Bel Trew – Chief International Correspondent at The Independent travelled to meet some of the women affected by this shifting landscape, as the country headed to the polls while one in three American women of reproductive age have lost access to abortion.
We invite you to the London debut screening of The A-Word where you will have a chance to hear from Bel Trew herself in a Q&A session after the documentary.
Bel Trew is The Independent’s award-winning chief international correspondent, a documentary filmmaker and photojournalist. Born and raised in the Gulf, Bel has been covering the Middle and North Africa region since the 2011 uprisings reporting on conflicts and revolutions from Libya to Yemen—from Gaza to Syria. She lived seven years in Cairo, and was later based for several years in Jerusalem, Beirut and is now in Berlin. This is the fourth conflict between Israel and Gaza Bel has covered on the ground—she reported from inside Gaza during the 2012 and 2014 wars. With a background in the Baltic States, Bel widened her focus to Eastern Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, reporting from the frontlines of the war where she shot and directed her first documentary “The Body in the Woods” released this year. Bel was named international journalist of the year at this year’s UK’s Press Awards.
