Motherland

Motherland (2017)

January 21st, 20171h 34min

Documentary
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Overview

The planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face devastating consequences as their country struggles with reproductive health policy and the politics of conservative Catholic ideologies.


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