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Women's & Gender Studies Program
Wake Forest University
Tribble Hall, A106A
P.O. Box 7365
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Phone: 336-758-3758
Fax: 336-758-4143
wgs@wfu.edu

The Coat Hanger Project

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

6:30 pm

McIver Auditorium (028)

UNC Greensboro

The Coat Hanger Project is a documentary film about abortion and the current state of the reproductive justice/pro-choice movement. Its purpose is to provide a flash of truth about the lived realities of women and the need for safe, legal abortion access that will wake us from this lotus-eater sleep that makes us think the current status quo is okay. Denying women access to abortion forces them to either carry a fetus to term that they do not want, or take their chances ending the pregnancy themselves or with the help of an underground provider who may or may not know what they are doing. It is beyond injustive, beyond horrifying, to put this burden on women. The Coat Hanger Project aims to provide a radical, fierce, unflinchingly pro-choice perspective and show the world that we can stand strong as advocates for women's reproductive freedom.

A Panel Discussion will follow the film.