Plan C Documentary Movie

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Plan C Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: A determined group of women, midwives, and doctors fight to increase access to abortion pills in the United States outside of a clinic setting. In 2014, Francine, a social scientist based in Los Angeles, and her partners, launched Plan C to spread the word about access to abortion pills online. This is the story of the work done between 2020 and the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Directed by Tracy Droz Tragos
Transcript
00:00 [ Silence ]
00:06 [ Music ]
00:10 >> I wouldn't lie to you, they got a pill that you can take after you get pregnant
00:15 and it will automatically abort the child.
00:17 [ Music ]
00:21 >> At the beginning it was just trying to make clear that these pills existed,
00:26 that they were safe, they were effective.
00:29 >> Abortion pills are available by mail, it's a thing.
00:31 >> And of course people said, you can't do that, that's illegal.
00:35 >> There is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion.
00:39 >> If I can't get an abortion, I'm going to kill myself.
00:42 And then she hunks up the phone.
00:43 >> We all went to the post office just now to drop something off.
00:48 Sounds like candy and/or beads.
00:50 >> Go to this website, send money through this portal.
00:55 >> My brain went, just go buy black market abortion pills.
01:00 >> Mobilizing is really hard when you're scared and you're censored.
01:04 >> I get frustrated by everybody trying to follow the rules instead
01:08 of what really needs to be done.
01:10 >> I'm not going to be stopped or hindered by the law one way or the other.
01:14 >> It's like we're running a drug cartel in order to help people.
01:21 >> A lot of our work is in letting people know that the supplies
01:23 that we send, they could get arrested for them.
01:26 >> And when you hold those packages.
01:28 >> It feels like a revolution.
01:31 >> So let's keep moving on.
01:35 More states, more patients, more doctors.
01:37 >> I feel like the Wizard of Oz or something because I'm still behind everything.
01:41 >> Our biggest goal is to get the word out about access in the red states.
01:46 >> Station a police officer at my mailbox, I dare you.
01:48 >> We are not going to become more quiet, we're going to become louder.
01:52 [ Music ]