TRAPPED
“ The film’s most compelling argument emerges from interviews with women who now struggle to find abortion services, largely poor women who’ve had to travel long distances-trips they could scarcely afford-to find a clinic that was open. ”
U.S. reproductive health clinics are fighting to remain open. Since 2010, 288 TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures. Unable to comply with these far-reaching and medically unnecessary measures, clinics have taken their fight to the courts. As the U.S. Supreme Court decides in 2016 whether individual states may essentially outlaw abortion (Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt), Trapped follows the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers who are on the front lines of a battle to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women.
Trapped premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking. The film was released theatrically and appeared on the PBS series Independent Lens in 2016. It went on to win a Peabody and the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association.