Inside the Underground Abortion Pill Network
A new documentary called shines a light on the urgent work being done by a network of reproductive justice activists to get abortion pills into the hands of those who need it. In light of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade precedent, and growing conservative backlash to the abortion pill, the film’s message is timely and powerful.
Tracy Droz Tragos, award-winning filmmaker, director, and producer of Plan C spoke with è! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on è Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about her film and the women it profiles. Plan C will be in theaters across the nation on October 6, 2023.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined è! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of è! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute’s Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (2023) and Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2005). Her forthcoming book is called Talking About Abolition (Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women’s Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master’s in Astronomy from the University of Hawai’i, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on “My Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host” in her 2014 of the same name.
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