Abortion pill: the women of the ‘resistance’
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Washington (AFP) – It is a documentary that evokes the underground abortion networks of the 1960s but the story involves the present day. “Plan C,” airing this week at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, is about a group of risk-taking women determined to provide access to a safe method of abortion. Their tool: the abortion pill. “Plan C” is both the name of the documentary and the organization at the center of the film. It traces the uphill battle faced by the women between 2019 and 2022 to make the abortion pill more widely available to women in need. On the one hand, the pande…