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21) Lake of fire
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A look at the subject of abortion where there can be no absolutes, no 'right' or 'wrong.' Equal time is given to both sides, covering arguments from either extremes of the spectrum, as well as those at the center, who acknowledge that, in the end, everyone is 'right' or 'wrong.'
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"Dr. David Fazio is a maternity physician at Chicago-Western Medical Hospital. He is a handsome, divorced baby doctor who has more than his share of personal flaws. But Dr. Fazio has one good moral quality going for him: He is a pro-life obstetrician. In a state where late term abortions are now legal, he is being strongly encouraged by the hospital to perform abortions to any patient requesting one. Dr. Fazio has one other problem ... he has horrific...
27) Voiceless
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Jesse Dean is a recently discharged soldier who had a rough upbringing, but who has, through his wife Julia, found God and become devoted to his faith. When Jesse and Julia move to Philadelphia so he can take a new job as an outreach leader at an old church whose membership has been declining, everything is going well until Jesse discovers the women's clinic across the street from the church also provides abortions. Jesse, struggling to reconcile...
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"Though the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade protected a woman's right to choose, abortion remains one of the most divisive issues in America today. In the last several years, many states have imposed restrictions on access to abortion, including Missouri, where only one abortion clinic remains open in the entire state. In "Abortion: Stories Women Tell", awarding-winning director (and Missouri native) Tracy Droz Tragos sheds new light...
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This documentary tells the rearely-discussed story of what it means to be an abortion provider today: confronting the threats of violence and facing intensified political threats and efforts to criminalize abortion. Religious control over health care is expanding, including in many pro-choice states. The abortion debate continues to be defined by gruesome images of the anti-abortion movement. In contrast, this film provides a crucial, hopeful point...
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"Behind the emotionally charged rhetoric around abortion are the very real stories of women who have felt alone and helpless and the health care professionals who care for them. Throughout her nearly four-decades-long nursing career, Patrice D'Amato has seen the most diverse cross section of the human population inside abortion clinics. A compassionate mosaic memoir, The View from the Clinic humanizes abortion through the multifaceted experiences...
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"Abortion helpline, this is Lisa is a powerful short documentary that expresses how economic stigma and cruel legislation determines who in America has access to abortion. At a women's health fund in Philadelphia, phone counselors--all called Lisa for anonymity--arrive each morning to the nonstop ring of calls from people who are seeking to end a pregnancy they can't afford to. In 1976, only three years after Roe v. Wade became the law of the land,...
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