
Backroom Troubles
Backroom Troubles
Watch Backroom Troubles Online Free FlixHQ. Women talk about the circumstances that drove them to seek illegal abortions and the often traumatic result. Interwoven with historical photographs and newsreel footage, the stories expose how the reality of women's lives were counterposed to what was socially and morally expected of them.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: New Zealand
- Director: Shane Loader
- Cast: Andrea Bosshard, Jane Bennett, Kate Harcourt, Kathy McRae, Sally Rodwell,

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