Earlier this year, Eliza Hittman’s abortion drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always followed the journey of two teenage girls — one seeking to end her pregnancy and the other providing companionship and emotional support — with remarkable sociological groundedness.
Seventeen-year-old Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) and her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder) only had to travel about 100 miles to New York from their Pennsylvania town, but the bus ride north and the difficulties of navigating Manhattan as cash-strapped adolescents lugging suitcases up and down subway stairs emphasized the toil, stress and strain that economically disadvantaged girls and women are forced to undergo to get the healthcare they need and deserve.
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