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Abortion Helpline,This is Lisa [videorecording (DVD)].

Women Make Movies, 2021.

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (ca. 13 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Closed-captioned.

Director, Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, Mike Attie.

At a women's health fund in Philadelphia, phone counselors, all called Lisa to protect their anonymity, arrive each morning to the nonstop ring of calls from people who are seeking to end a pregnancy and can't afford to. In 1976, only three years after Roe v. Wade became the law of the land, the Hyde Amendment was enacted with the explicit intention of denying poor individuals, those receiving Medicaid, access to abortion. By giving voice to those affected by discriminatory policies, the film exposes how legislation like the Hyde Amendment ties access to abortion to economic status and denies reproductive justice.

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