When Dawn Porter started filming abortion clinic workers in the US three years ago, she was drawn by their dedicated struggles to stay standing amid an onslaught of laws aimed at restricting abortion access. Little could she have imagined her documentary film Trapped would open in major cities this week, the same week the US Supreme Court hears arguments on those laws – the first time the nation's highest court has tackled the controversial issue of abortion in nearly a decade. "It's like I scheduled it, right?" the director joked from her home in San Francisco. Trapped tells the story of abortion providers in the states of Texas, Mississippi and Alabama, as they wrestle with state regulations, particularly the Texas law known as HB2. Among other things, HB2 requires abortion clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centres. More than half the clinics in Texas have been forced to close under HB2, leaving less than 20, advocates say, to serve the state of 27 million people. The hardest hit arerural, low-income women for whom the distance, lost wages and expenses for travel, lodging and childcare can make abortion virtually unattainable, they say. Deciding if, in...
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