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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceVillage VoiceThis doc is a tearjerker, but it's also enraging.
- 90TheWrapClaudia PuigTheWrapClaudia PuigA deeply personal film about the crisis in reproductive rights that manages to be even-handed, insightful and deeply moving.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranIf there is a through line that unites all the women in Abortion: Stories Women Tell, it’s that they take the potential responsibilities of parenthood very seriously. And no matter how tough and self-reliant they are, this decision is always an impossible one, and one that the outside world's unbending attitudes do not make any easier.
- 75Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardTracy Droz Tragos's documentary examines its titular subject with a compassionate eye for regional detail.
- 75The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayStories Women Tell does succeed at what it primarily means to do, which is to take abortion out of the realm of the theoretical and make it more personal.
- 75RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThis is an issue about women’s rights and so this powerful film exclusively listens to the stories that women tell.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeTracy Droz Tragos works to get beyond us-versus-them simplicity in Abortion: Stories Women Tell, focusing on personal narrative over politics in a humanistic look at an issue that promises to remain divisive for the foreseeable future.
- 70The New York TimesHelen T. VerongosThe New York TimesHelen T. VerongosWhat Ms. Tragos succeeds in illustrating is that if you take away the signs and listen to the stories, there is little difference between women on opposite sides of the debate — at least in the region she covers.