Reactions to "12th & Delaware"
Last Friday, I had the chance to see the new documentary "12th & Delaware" at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in New York. Directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, who also directed "Jesus Camp," show the stories of an anti-choice "crisis pregnancy center" (CPC) and an abortion clinic that share a street corner in Florida.
It was an incredibly moving and powerful film.
I'd heard about the deceitful tactics that CPCs use to convince women not to have an abortion, but I'd never seen them first hand. The directors were given unprecedented access to the CPC. They filmed conversations that the CPC director, Anne, had with women seeking help. A true documentary film, Ewing and Grady let the people at the CPC speak for themselves. And boy did they.
Being pro-choice means I support a woman's right to choose abortion or to choose to carry her pregnancy to term. But it was heart-breaking to watch as Anne used her scare tactics on a confused and frightened 15-year-old girl. It was disgusting to hear Anne suggest that a woman's verbally abusive boyfriend could change if she brought a child into their dysfunctional relationship.
The filmmakers were also given permission to film in the abortion clinic, owned by a woman named Candace and her husband, Arnold. The difference between Anne and Candace's counseling sessions was night and day. When Candace spoke with patients, she was clearly concerned with helping each woman make the decision that was right for her. To see what these women were going through was so moving.
But enough about what I thought. Here's what others who saw the film in New York had to say:
Amanda Marcotte shared her thoughts about the film on RH Reality Check.
"12th & Delaware" will be playing at the BAM CinemaFest on Saturday, June 19. If you can't catch it in a theater, HBO will air it on Monday, August 2, at 9/8 Central.
I hope you all get the chance to see this extraordinary film... and come back here to share your thoughts.
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Does anyone here stand up for the rights of women in the womb? 1/2 of all pregnancies are you, ladies. Yes, choice is great - but at the expense of the life of a woman?
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I wish we could get someone to moniter this sites comments. The only comments ever put up her are crazy anti-choicers/women. Don't you people have anything better to do with your lives than purposely go to PRO-CHOICE sites to spew your hate? Once again proving your crazy and extreamlt harassing position.
THIS IS A PRO-CHOICE SITE!
If you are Anti-Choice, Anti-Women, Anti-Freedom, Anti-Equality, than LEAVE THIS SITE! There are more than enough sites for your agenda and hate. Go spew your hate there, go plan your murder hits, your clinic bombings, your terrorism, rage on and on about how your sooo "pro-life" while you kill women, let women die, let children suffer and die, kill doctors, nurses, supportors and patients, all without one single bit of care! You DO NOT care about life, you couldn't care less about all the women dieing, both from complicated pregnancy and blothed abortions, also suicide! You couldn't care less about the MILIONS of homeless, starving, and severly abused unwanted children, I NEVER see any of you doing a damn thing for those fetuses once they are born! Adopting them, helping them?! No because to you value begins at conception and ends at birth, after that you couldn't care less!
Just admit you don't care in the least about anyones life. All women could die for all you care. All babies and children can live in hell, in foster care, homeless, being discarded, unwanted, phsyically, mentally, and particularly sexually abused, even sold into sex slavery! That doesn't matter to you. You can go on killing, murdering, others all in the name of your "pro-life" agenda! Your real reasons are not a caring for life, but a want for complete control, hatred of women and freedom, you want everyone to be forced to live by your morals, beliefs, religion and wants. You want a Hitler world. You DO NOT believe in freedom, in anything this screwed up country was orginially founded upon. You are for the complete oppression of all people, the forcement of others to live under your morals and god, not allowing freedom of belief, freedom of religion, freedom of choices in our lives and how we want to live it. Your against all freedom. You support Hitler's dream and agenda, the controlment of all people, to have everyone forced to live in your eye's view. It's sick.
What we want is freedom and equality. To have NO ONE forced to do anything, to have complete freedom of your choice in your life and body. For everyone to have equality, to be treated as equals. We want women to have the choice in what is happening to their bodies and lives, for them and them only to make their choices, no forcement and no restrictions.
You want the opposite. You want to be able to tell others how they can live their lives, what they can do with their bodies. You want women to have no choices at all. You want a complete ban on abortion, and also on birth control, you want women to have no control over their bodies. It is not your business what is going on inside of women's wombs/uteruses. You want dead women and homeless children. Your agenda is about hatred and control, ours is freedom.
It's pretty damn black and white, your wrong, you want oppression and death, we want the freedom of all people, we are the good, the right, and hopefully, if this species ever hopes to survive, the future. Oppression or freedom. You choose.
Jane, you're my hero. You said it beautifully!
I think it is misleading to state that most abortion clinics or planned parenthood clinics are any more "honest" than the cpc's . I'm not some rabid anti-choice person. I just think the issue is too extremist on both sides. Yes abortion is of course the best thing if the mother might die or be seriously harmed, or if the baby is not viable, or very, very early in the pregnancy.
But you can't look at an ultrasound of a 15 -18 week old infant and say that is easily disposible. It's a baby - you can watch it move, it sucks it's thumb, it has every part it will need -- and it will sometimes survive at 21 weeks. To go with the technology and knowledge of over 30 years ago and base "viability" on that , and have a cut off of 24 weeks ? That is nuts.
Yet when a close friend was considering a second trimester abortion -- No one at planned parenthood told her that, they led her to believe that it was just a 'clump of tissue' -- how is that any less of a lie than what the crisis pregnancy center's do ?