Is the country of the future a place where children become pregnant? Is the largest Catholic country in the world also where over thirty thousand women die as a consequence of abortion? Is the 10th largest economy on the planet the one where 27% of women are sterilized? These questions were the starting points for Ventre Livre (Free Womb, or Liberation), a groundbreaking documentary from 1994 about reproductive rights in Brazil.

It tells the stories of Vera, Ivonete, Carmen, Denise, Maria do Carmo, and Marlove - individuals born in the country with the most unequal income distribution on the planet. Three decades have passed, and the nation still awaits the future.
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Chapters
▷ 0:00 – Introduction

▷ 00:10 – Liberation

▷ 01:53 – Brazil, country of the future
150 million inhabitants, US$ 140 billion in foreign debt, and 150 thousand children die from starvation every year

▷ 04:06 – Population data on fertility and female sterilization
76 million women, 40 million women at fertile age, and 11 million women at fertile age but sterilized

▷ 20:25 – Abortion statistics in 1993
In one year, 6 million pregnant women, maybe 2 million abortions, possibly 1.5 million abortions without medical assistance, and probably 50 thousand women died of abortion-related causes

▷ 35:07 – Teenage pregnancies
There are 32 million teenagers, 13 million teenagers out of school, 11 million underemployed teenagers, and 1 million pregnant teenagers every year

▷ 45:00 – The "Free Womb" Law (1871)
It freed the children of slaves, but not their fathers and mothers. That's how street children were born, how inequality was born.

▷ 45:13 – Credits

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Original Title: Ventre Livre (Free Womb, or Liberation)
Director: Ana Luiza Azevedo
Executive Producer: Nora Goulart

1994 © Licenced by Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre

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