| "Abortion's Silenced Legacy"
seeks to dispel the many myths about illegal abortion,
a time now considered to be ancient history by the
women and men who have grown up with legal contraceptives
and legal abortion. Creating an emotional bond between
those generations of women and men and the way life
was pre-Roe, begins with graphic pictures and language
about illegal abortion that will stir up emotions
inside them about desperate and determined women
who self-aborted and died. |
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| Anti-abortion pictures
and baby-killing rhetoric have pushed the stories
and pictures of women hurt and dead from illegal
abortion out of sight and hence out of mind, leaving
abortion rights supporters feeling guilty and ashamed
for believing that women, not just fetuses have
a right to life and liberty. Out of sight out of
mind has left post-Roe generations without a reason
to believe any threat to legal abortion is looming
around the corner. |
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| "Abortion's Silenced Legacy"
speaks to the caring doctors and midwives who went
underground and did their best with little formal
training in surgical abortion to help desperate
and determined women safely terminate their pregnancies.
And it speaks to the police raids upon doctors doing
safe but illegal abortions, the public trials, and
the loss of medical confidentiality for women. |
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| And finally, this drama
recognizes the courageous caring doctors who choose
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| provide safe abortion
services for women today in spite of acts of violence
by anti-abortion extremists against their clinics,
despite harassment of their patients, the deaths
of several of their peers and clinic staff, threats
against their own lives, and the relentless protests
at their homes by anti-abortion extremists. |
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