“Trapped” the follows the efforts by abortion clinic workers and lawyers to fight increasingly stringent TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws in the years leading up to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. The 5-3 decision overturned Texas’s HB 2, which required abortion clinics to meet surgical center standards.
The screening is part of the “Controversy & Conversation” series, a collaboration between the Austin Public Library and the Humanities Institute’s Difficult Dialogues Program at the University of Texas.
Location: Austin Public Library, Terrazas Branch, 1105 East Cesar Chavez St., Austin, 78702