By Gabriela Quiros
BEAUTIFUL SIN tells a surprising reproductive rights story, one with resonance for the United States and reproductive rights as a whole. What if you desperately wanted a baby, but your country and religion prohibited you from trying the one medical treatment that could help you? BEAUTIFUL SIN tells the decade-long story of three couples struggling with infertility in Costa Rica. In 2000, anti-abortion activists, with the help of the Catholic Church and a U.S. group, won a legal case that banned in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in Costa Rica and gave the embryo legal rights, making Costa Rica the only country in the world that has outlawed the treatment, in which doctors create embryos in the lab.
Filmmaker Gabriela Quiros charts the emotional journey of infertility and explores the legal ramifications of reproductive rights, by telling a universal story of what happens when state power and religious ideology clash with the desire to have a child.
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