Selda: A short feature about an abortionist justifying her profession as God's calling

• Main Authors: Del Mundo, Romeo E., Mendoza, Ena Denise Q., Ver, Isabel Rae P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Women physicians > Crimes against > Fiction; Mothers > Death > Fiction; Abortion > Fiction; Drama
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/10078
• Institution: De La Salle University

Selda is a 20-minute drama feature about a 30-year-old abortionists who believes that her profession, which she considers as God's calling, enables her to help women form their unwanted pregnancies. After being charged with the death of a young girl, Selda evades the accusation and continues her job amid the watchful eye of the police. Due to her husband's prodding, she decides to lay low for a while but if offered by her regular customer another job, which she finds hard to refuse. She accepts it with the condition that this will be her last. Unfortunately, she gets caught by the police and learns that her belief cannot contest the law.