Killing girls “Killing Girls” brings us into a late term abortion clinic for teenagers in Russia who will terminate their babies as late as 8 months in their pregnancy. This teenage abortion project from Russia will go into production in 2007.

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Killing girls

St. Petersburg, Russia. An abortion clinic that specializes in late term teenage abortions. Young girls arrive at the clinic through the back door, sometimes with their mother or a friend. But all of them have to go through it alone. Here abortions are performed even after 7 months of pregnancy. The procedure is standard. When the girls arrive on in the weekend, they are put in one big ward. At the same time eight girls will get their drinks in order to enhance the contractions. When contractions on Monday start the doctors and nurses will help the girls to deliver. Most girls do not want to see their babies. They stay for the night and in the early morning they leave the clinic again to get back to their lives.

‘Killing Girls is a story about moral and economical choices in today’s Russian society. It is the story of three girls that at one point in their life decided to end a pregnancy at a late term. It is the story of the doctor who performs these late term abortions. Who are these people? What is their story?

In the film we follow these characters closely for three years. Through them we learn about the living conditions for the younger generation in Russia, those that dream of a glamorous western lifestyle, but are condemned to live hunting for money to buy a moment of happiness. Nobody has time to have children any longer. Fighting to find an income in a society with badly paid work, children have become a problem.