NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
The release of Ricki Lake’s documentary, The Business of Birth Control, hasn’t come without its challenges as the iconic talk show host found out this year.
Alongside her longtime filmmaking partner Abby Epstein, Ricki, 54, has unpacked the complex relationship between hormonal birth control and women’s health and liberation.
It follows on from the pair’s 2008 documentary The Business of Being Born and happened to release in the same year as the controversial Roe v Wade decision, which overturned 50 years of abortion rights in the US this summer.
In this week’s episode of Metro.co.uk podcast Smut Drop, Ricki and Abby discuss the uphill battle they have faced in spotlighting the birth control documentary in the US given the ongoing debate about women’s rights to decide what they do with their bodies.