ABSTRACT
Trapped plays out in real time, capturing the very real struggle and fight for these clinics to stay open. The stakes and tension increase steadily throughout the film as the doctors discuss death threats they receive regularly, which makes for an impactful film. Many issue films have made real change both at the political and local level and had powerful impact campaigns and impact producers attached to them. Trapped goes to the front lines of the controversial battle waged over the so-called TRAP laws—Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers—which are designed to restrict access to abortion in the United States. Many states immediately put abortion bans in place in the United States. Not only women who seek procedures but those that help and treat those women can go to prison if they provide abortion care.
