Abortion Videos - The Documentary Network Explore the world beyond headlines with amazing videos. Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:56:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.5 https://documentary.net/wp-content/themes/documentary/img/documentary-logo.png Documentary Network - Watch free documentaries and films 337 17 Explore the world beyond headlines with amazing videos. The Birth Battleground https://documentary.net/video/abortion-birth-battleground/ https://documentary.net/video/abortion-birth-battleground/#respond Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:04:56 +0000 http://documentary.net/?p=10487

It’s 40 years since a US Supreme Court case enshrined a woman’s right to abortion, but now some say the clock is being wound back in Republican states across the US. Laws are being passed restricting when and where abortions can take place, which opponents believe will mean a return to the days of illegal backstreet terminations. The debate has brought out a loud lobby of pro-choice and pro-life supporters… neither of whom are showing any signs of backing down. Amos Roberts follows the campaign of one of the most vocal opponents… Texas Senator Wendy Davis, whose marathon 11 hour filibustering speech delayed voting on the legislation. But who should be able to make the final decision about the future of an unborn child? Hear both sides of the story in Amos's report. The word filibuster - the dictionary defines it as to act in an obstructive way in a legislature, especially speaking at an inordinate length. In the Texas parliament recently, that is exactly what Senator Wendy Davis had in mind. She was determined to torpedo a bill she said winds back hard won rights to abortion. Davis’s marathon filibuster made her famous in the US and around the world. As Amos Roberts reports, the glamorous Senator has become a torch bearer for those who believe abortion rights are at serious risk.]]>

It’s 40 years since a US Supreme Court case enshrined a woman’s right to abortion, but now some say the clock is being wound back in Republican states across the US. Laws are being passed restricting when and where abortions can take place, which opponents believe will mean a return to the days of illegal backstreet terminations. The debate has brought out a loud lobby of pro-choice and pro-life supporters… neither of whom are showing any signs of backing down. Amos Roberts follows the campaign of one of the most vocal opponents… Texas Senator Wendy Davis, whose marathon 11 hour filibustering speech delayed voting on the legislation. But who should be able to make the final decision about the future of an unborn child? Hear both sides of the story in Amos's report. The word filibuster - the dictionary defines it as to act in an obstructive way in a legislature, especially speaking at an inordinate length. In the Texas parliament recently, that is exactly what Senator Wendy Davis had in mind. She was determined to torpedo a bill she said winds back hard won rights to abortion. Davis’s marathon filibuster made her famous in the US and around the world. As Amos Roberts reports, the glamorous Senator has become a torch bearer for those who believe abortion rights are at serious risk.]]> https://documentary.net/video/abortion-birth-battleground/feed/ 0 The Abortion War in the United States https://documentary.net/video/the-abortion-war/ https://documentary.net/video/the-abortion-war/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:21:03 +0000 http://documentary.net/?p=8261

For decades the United States has been polarized over the issue of abortion. But whats different now is that across the US, in an election year, the battle has been taken to a whole new level.
"What is abortion? Fundamentally it's the killing of an innocent child. If you can't get the life of an unborn baby right, I can't trust you with my taxes, education or anything else." Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue
Last year, an unprecedented number of laws have been passed across the US, all aimed at restricting abortion or reproductive rights. But the fight goes far beyond the medical procedure, with Republican politicians even attacking the Obama administration for making contraception more readily available. The US has seen more anti-abortion violence than any other country in the world. Since 1993, at least eight abortion providers, including four doctors have been killed. And there have been over 200 arsons and bombings against reproductive healthcare clinics since 1977. Why is a medical procedure being reframed as a deeply divisive moral issue in the US? The film team travels to California to meet the next generation of frontline troops fighting to ban abortion, and to Ohio and Tennessee to investigate what lies behind the so-called war on women.
"It [Ohio's heartbeat bill] really only sees a woman as a carrier and she has no other right beyond her ability to reproduce. One of the reasons that these abortion bills are so dangerous is because it chips away at the notion of personal liberty, your right. And what can be more fundamental to your personal liberty than being able to control your own body .... Women died trying to get back-alley abortions. Do we want to get back to that in the land of opportunities, the land of freedom? When did it become a sin and a shame to be a woman in this country? But that is what is happening in the 21st century in many states across this country and also in our congress and it's just absolutely shameful to me." Nina Turner, Ohio state senator
Note: You should also watch “180″ Movie – Hitler vs Abortion]]>

For decades the United States has been polarized over the issue of abortion. But whats different now is that across the US, in an election year, the battle has been taken to a whole new level.
"What is abortion? Fundamentally it's the killing of an innocent child. If you can't get the life of an unborn baby right, I can't trust you with my taxes, education or anything else." Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue
Last year, an unprecedented number of laws have been passed across the US, all aimed at restricting abortion or reproductive rights. But the fight goes far beyond the medical procedure, with Republican politicians even attacking the Obama administration for making contraception more readily available. The US has seen more anti-abortion violence than any other country in the world. Since 1993, at least eight abortion providers, including four doctors have been killed. And there have been over 200 arsons and bombings against reproductive healthcare clinics since 1977. Why is a medical procedure being reframed as a deeply divisive moral issue in the US? The film team travels to California to meet the next generation of frontline troops fighting to ban abortion, and to Ohio and Tennessee to investigate what lies behind the so-called war on women.
"It [Ohio's heartbeat bill] really only sees a woman as a carrier and she has no other right beyond her ability to reproduce. One of the reasons that these abortion bills are so dangerous is because it chips away at the notion of personal liberty, your right. And what can be more fundamental to your personal liberty than being able to control your own body .... Women died trying to get back-alley abortions. Do we want to get back to that in the land of opportunities, the land of freedom? When did it become a sin and a shame to be a woman in this country? But that is what is happening in the 21st century in many states across this country and also in our congress and it's just absolutely shameful to me." Nina Turner, Ohio state senator
Note: You should also watch “180″ Movie – Hitler vs Abortion]]> https://documentary.net/video/the-abortion-war/feed/ 1 “180” Movie – Ray Comforts Hitler vs Abortion Film [REVIEW] https://documentary.net/magazine/180-movie-ray-comforts-hitler-vs-abortion-film-review/ https://documentary.net/magazine/180-movie-ray-comforts-hitler-vs-abortion-film-review/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:34:44 +0000 http://documentary.net/?p=3642

“Have you heard of Adolf Hitler?” – “No.” – “You don't know who he is?” – “No.” “He was kind of a president.” – “He had a moustache.” – “He was a communist leader in Germany.” – “An actor or someone.” ... Ray Comfort nearly had me there. And then he made me angry. Very angry. To the point where I’m actually not sure wheter to write a single sentence about this piece of election propaganda or just keep quiet – as bad publicity is still better than no publicity. To put my conclusio in the beginning: my biggest problem with this documentary is not the foreshortened editing Comfort makes in his and his believe’s favour, not the pseudo-logical take with which he lures his not quite eloquent interviewees towards his goal and not even the missing counter arguments or opposite opinions a fair and objectively weighed film would need. The point that (unfortunately) gets my emotions boiling over is that you can NOT compare abortion to the Holocaust (being the term he uses for what might be more correctly called the Shoah). It does not matter wheter you personally are pro-joice or pro-life (or anti-abortion if you will) – to call abortion a modern Holocaust is simply a cruel ridiculing of what happend to the millions of jewish, gipsy, homosexual, socialist, communist or in any other way different or defamed people who had to die or suffer during the Nazi regime. It was of course by far not the only atrocity in the cruel history of this planet, but to put the word Holocaust so easily in another context is mocking the destiny and memory of the dead and those who survived alike – especially when talking in the name of God. So much for my initial emotional response. Let’s now revisit the path this film takes in terms of telling its story. Ray Comfort is a Christian preacher and also mentions to have jewish ancestry – wheter he tells the audience that to gain credibility for the cause to follow is uncertain. He starts by asking mainly adolescent people of different ethnic backgrounds if they know who Adolf Hitler was and gets mostly shockingly ignorant answers. Those who forget history are bound to repeat it, Comfort reminds the audience rightly. Of course we don’t know how many people the preacher really interviewed in the course of making this film, we don’t know the answers they gave and how many of those didn’t have a “180” – the change of heart he so famously advertises. But he managed to gain sympathy within the initial moments of the film. After diving a bit more into the history of WWII he offers thought experiments: if you had the possibility of killing Hitler, would you have done it and thereby prevent the killings of millions? And what if 30 years earlier there was the chance to kill Hitler’s pregnant mother? Would you still do it? These questions of consciense are not easily replied to aswell are those about to follow, for example if you’d rather kill or be killed yourself. One of the things that produce a bitter reflux is that the only contrast given to those people who let themselves be stirred in the direction Comfort wants, are two neo-Nazis full of hatred who are not only morons (which they are to an extent I can’t depict in only a matter of words) but – and here’s the crux – they don’t believe in God. And to stress it more firmly they are the only ones in the film who really clarify not having faith in a higher power, whichever name you might give it. And so the feeling lingers that not only are those Nazis Atheists but that Atheists might be evil for lack of a moral code – the Ten Commandments to be precise. Of course our preacher does not put it in those exact words but by analogy of quoting Hitler about his low esteem for Christianity (in fact a misquote though not wrong in its content) and by those two human examples of the worst kind of non-believers we are led to feel that value of life and a sense of right and wrong are only possible if you believe in God. After the first mind experiments the questions get trickier. Back to choosing your own life over the lives of others: you value human life, so what about abortion? Comfort asks the people if they think it’s a baby, a “life” one is killing in an abortion. Most of them admit they are not sure. So Comfort gives an analogy: you’re a construction worker and you’re going to blow up this building. There's a possibility, there's someone in there, but you just don't know ... Don’t be mistaken, those are valid questions, but Ray Comfort is not looking for valid answers. If he were, he would have interviewed doctors, scientists maybe even philosophers because it’s not a question of killing “life” as the definition of life, consciousness, connections of nerves etc. is given (or is up for debate if you beg to differ), but the equally difficult and important question of preventing a human being from, well, being. But while at this particular course of argumentation – and unfortunately Comfort doesn’t share his point of view on that subject – what about birth control? What about those billions, trillions, quadrillions of lives that didn’t have a chance to dip into existence? As mentioned before, it is propaganda and not documentary to deny the audience counter opinions and especially expert opinions. Ray Comfort is well prepared in answering raised concerns like being raped and pregnant as a result of that (“why should the child be punished for the crime of the father?”) or the possibility of a child born with disabilities. The interviewees are not prepared and are not really thinking that fast on their feet. In the end there is no answer what to do for example if the health of the mother were to be risked because of her pregnancy. Aborting a child is the path to hell (see mentioned Commandments) we learn. But is killing Hitler’s pregnant mother the answer to preventing the Holocaust, is it murder or even Holocaust itself then? Unfortunately Ray Comfort doesn’t give us the answer to that. Documentary.net says: Make up your own minds about this film but bear in those same minds the concerns about the methods preacher Comfort uses to make ends meet. See the full film here]]>

“Have you heard of Adolf Hitler?” – “No.” – “You don't know who he is?” – “No.” “He was kind of a president.” – “He had a moustache.” – “He was a communist leader in Germany.” – “An actor or someone.” ... Ray Comfort nearly had me there. And then he made me angry. Very angry. To the point where I’m actually not sure wheter to write a single sentence about this piece of election propaganda or just keep quiet – as bad publicity is still better than no publicity. To put my conclusio in the beginning: my biggest problem with this documentary is not the foreshortened editing Comfort makes in his and his believe’s favour, not the pseudo-logical take with which he lures his not quite eloquent interviewees towards his goal and not even the missing counter arguments or opposite opinions a fair and objectively weighed film would need. The point that (unfortunately) gets my emotions boiling over is that you can NOT compare abortion to the Holocaust (being the term he uses for what might be more correctly called the Shoah). It does not matter wheter you personally are pro-joice or pro-life (or anti-abortion if you will) – to call abortion a modern Holocaust is simply a cruel ridiculing of what happend to the millions of jewish, gipsy, homosexual, socialist, communist or in any other way different or defamed people who had to die or suffer during the Nazi regime. It was of course by far not the only atrocity in the cruel history of this planet, but to put the word Holocaust so easily in another context is mocking the destiny and memory of the dead and those who survived alike – especially when talking in the name of God. So much for my initial emotional response. Let’s now revisit the path this film takes in terms of telling its story. Ray Comfort is a Christian preacher and also mentions to have jewish ancestry – wheter he tells the audience that to gain credibility for the cause to follow is uncertain. He starts by asking mainly adolescent people of different ethnic backgrounds if they know who Adolf Hitler was and gets mostly shockingly ignorant answers. Those who forget history are bound to repeat it, Comfort reminds the audience rightly. Of course we don’t know how many people the preacher really interviewed in the course of making this film, we don’t know the answers they gave and how many of those didn’t have a “180” – the change of heart he so famously advertises. But he managed to gain sympathy within the initial moments of the film. After diving a bit more into the history of WWII he offers thought experiments: if you had the possibility of killing Hitler, would you have done it and thereby prevent the killings of millions? And what if 30 years earlier there was the chance to kill Hitler’s pregnant mother? Would you still do it? These questions of consciense are not easily replied to aswell are those about to follow, for example if you’d rather kill or be killed yourself. One of the things that produce a bitter reflux is that the only contrast given to those people who let themselves be stirred in the direction Comfort wants, are two neo-Nazis full of hatred who are not only morons (which they are to an extent I can’t depict in only a matter of words) but – and here’s the crux – they don’t believe in God. And to stress it more firmly they are the only ones in the film who really clarify not having faith in a higher power, whichever name you might give it. And so the feeling lingers that not only are those Nazis Atheists but that Atheists might be evil for lack of a moral code – the Ten Commandments to be precise. Of course our preacher does not put it in those exact words but by analogy of quoting Hitler about his low esteem for Christianity (in fact a misquote though not wrong in its content) and by those two human examples of the worst kind of non-believers we are led to feel that value of life and a sense of right and wrong are only possible if you believe in God. After the first mind experiments the questions get trickier. Back to choosing your own life over the lives of others: you value human life, so what about abortion? Comfort asks the people if they think it’s a baby, a “life” one is killing in an abortion. Most of them admit they are not sure. So Comfort gives an analogy: you’re a construction worker and you’re going to blow up this building. There's a possibility, there's someone in there, but you just don't know ... Don’t be mistaken, those are valid questions, but Ray Comfort is not looking for valid answers. If he were, he would have interviewed doctors, scientists maybe even philosophers because it’s not a question of killing “life” as the definition of life, consciousness, connections of nerves etc. is given (or is up for debate if you beg to differ), but the equally difficult and important question of preventing a human being from, well, being. But while at this particular course of argumentation – and unfortunately Comfort doesn’t share his point of view on that subject – what about birth control? What about those billions, trillions, quadrillions of lives that didn’t have a chance to dip into existence? As mentioned before, it is propaganda and not documentary to deny the audience counter opinions and especially expert opinions. Ray Comfort is well prepared in answering raised concerns like being raped and pregnant as a result of that (“why should the child be punished for the crime of the father?”) or the possibility of a child born with disabilities. The interviewees are not prepared and are not really thinking that fast on their feet. In the end there is no answer what to do for example if the health of the mother were to be risked because of her pregnancy. Aborting a child is the path to hell (see mentioned Commandments) we learn. But is killing Hitler’s pregnant mother the answer to preventing the Holocaust, is it murder or even Holocaust itself then? Unfortunately Ray Comfort doesn’t give us the answer to that. Documentary.net says: Make up your own minds about this film but bear in those same minds the concerns about the methods preacher Comfort uses to make ends meet. See the full film here]]> https://documentary.net/magazine/180-movie-ray-comforts-hitler-vs-abortion-film-review/feed/ 8 “180” Movie – Hitler vs Abortion https://documentary.net/video/180-movie-hitler-vs-abortion/ https://documentary.net/video/180-movie-hitler-vs-abortion/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:19:12 +0000 http://documentary.net/?p=3240

Does anybody remember Hitler? Watch this film and you'll be really surprised. Two times. What begins with a debate about Hitler turns into a "discussion" about abortion. The filmmaker even compares abortion with the Holocaust. Is evangelist Ray Comfort awesome/awful or just a smart viral video expert? What do you think? What's behind this film? Read our review here.]]>

Does anybody remember Hitler? Watch this film and you'll be really surprised. Two times. What begins with a debate about Hitler turns into a "discussion" about abortion. The filmmaker even compares abortion with the Holocaust. Is evangelist Ray Comfort awesome/awful or just a smart viral video expert? What do you think? What's behind this film? Read our review here.]]> https://documentary.net/video/180-movie-hitler-vs-abortion/feed/ 56 When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories (1992) https://documentary.net/video/when-abortion-was-illegal-untold-stories-1992/ https://documentary.net/video/when-abortion-was-illegal-untold-stories-1992/#respond Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:41:42 +0000 http://documentary.net/?p=1057

This Academy Award-nominated film features compelling first person accounts which reveal the physical, legal, and emotional consequences during the era when abortion was a criminal act. Remembrances include those of women who experienced illegal abortions, doctors who risked imprisonment and loss of their licenses for providing illegal abortions, and individuals who broke the law by helping women find safe abortions. ]]>

This Academy Award-nominated film features compelling first person accounts which reveal the physical, legal, and emotional consequences during the era when abortion was a criminal act. Remembrances include those of women who experienced illegal abortions, doctors who risked imprisonment and loss of their licenses for providing illegal abortions, and individuals who broke the law by helping women find safe abortions. ]]> https://documentary.net/video/when-abortion-was-illegal-untold-stories-1992/feed/ 0