In 1973, the MLAC (Movement for the Freedom of Abortion and Contraception) was created. Certain medical procedures, then clandestine regarding abortion, could be filmed for information and self-training for women. In Le Passage du col , the actress and director Marie Bottois stages the insertion of an IUD on her own body. With humor and visual rigor, she precisely continues the militant and feminist line of Y'a qu'à pas baiser (Carole Roussoupolos, 1971). Her film thus stands out as a document, a piece of history, at a time when the right of women to control their bodies and to have an abortion is being undermined throughout the world.