Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair
1984, English. Directed by Paul Cowan.
Paul Cowan's film captures the spirit of the legal battle over abortion waged by Dr. Henry Morgentaler in Quebec and in federal courts between 1970 and 1976. Using a combination of newsreel footage, interviews and re-enactments, this docudrama unravels the complexities of the case that began as a challenge to Canada's abortion laws and turned into a precedent-setting civil rights case.
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- 0h 58m
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- Released
- 1 January 1984
- Country
- Canada
- Written by
- Jefferson Lewis
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Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair (1984) was directed by Paul Cowan.