Screening : Manifesto 343, behind the scenes of a scandal

5 April 1971, 343 women, known and anonymous, publicly confessed to having had an illegal abortion in a manifesto written by Simone de Beauvoir and published in the Nouvel Observateur. They risked legal proceedings and prison. But they no longer have a choice. The slaughter must end. Every year, a million women have illegal abortions, endangering their health and sometimes their lives. Four years later, the Veil law decriminalised abortion. Fifty years later, the women who came up with the idea for this manifesto have spoken out.

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