America's War on Abortion Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: In this new documentary timed to coincide with the US Presidential elections, two-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Deeyah Khan investigates one of the most divisive issues in American politics – abortion.
This documentary goes inside abortion clinics that are under siege from fundamentalist Christian protesters, and meets the doctors who face an ever-present threat of violence, even murder, from anti-abortion fanatics.
Filmed before and during the shattering events of the coronavirus pandemic, Deeyah meets a man convicted of bombing clinics, and speaks to the women who face one of the most difficult decisions of their lives, in choosing to have an abortion.
In his time in office, Donald Trump has wooed evangelical Christian voters by enacting anti-abortion policies, and with a political battle currently raging over control of the Supreme Court, the right of American women to choose is under threat.
Deeyah deploys her uniquely intimate filming style to explore the contradictions and conflicts of her subject matter, going on the frontline to find the people most affected by America’s abortion wars.
This documentary goes inside abortion clinics that are under siege from fundamentalist Christian protesters, and meets the doctors who face an ever-present threat of violence, even murder, from anti-abortion fanatics.
Filmed before and during the shattering events of the coronavirus pandemic, Deeyah meets a man convicted of bombing clinics, and speaks to the women who face one of the most difficult decisions of their lives, in choosing to have an abortion.
In his time in office, Donald Trump has wooed evangelical Christian voters by enacting anti-abortion policies, and with a political battle currently raging over control of the Supreme Court, the right of American women to choose is under threat.
Deeyah deploys her uniquely intimate filming style to explore the contradictions and conflicts of her subject matter, going on the frontline to find the people most affected by America’s abortion wars.
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00:00If you want an abortion in the state of Alabama, this is what you'll have to face.
00:15You killed your baby, you shameful wretch!
00:18Hey, don't be a whore! Don't be a slut! Don't be a whore!
00:23Wicked, nasty, disgusting whore!
00:27Sex freak!
00:29Wicked!
00:30People should be comforted through this, and not damned and hated.
00:35All the judgment that society puts on it, it's hard not to feel guilty in a way about it.
00:42I am asking Congress to pass legislation finally banning the late-term abortion of babies.
00:55Donald Trump is the most anti-abortion president in years.
00:59Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, as a principle?
01:02There has to be some form of punishment.
01:04Now, a vicious political fight for control of the Supreme Court
01:08could see abortion being banned entirely for millions of women across America.
01:13And that's what we're going to do. We're going to fill the seat.
01:16That's a good idea.
01:21Performing abortions in America can get you murdered.
01:27I'm coming face to face with people convicted of anti-abortion terrorism.
01:32I knew that I would be coming against these abortion chambers with destructive force.
01:37I knew that I would destroy them.
01:39And the anti-abortion campaigners who celebrate these attacks.
01:47When they bomb an abortion clinic or burn an abortion clinic,
01:51I think the Army of God has done a marvelous job.
01:55I'm meeting the medical staff who risk their lives to provide abortions.
01:59This building's been bombed. It's been flooded.
02:04And the women who face the harshest choices of their lives.
02:08It's living. It's living. It's kicking.
02:20The fight over abortion has become a fight for the future of America.
02:26Ma'am, this doctor here is an abortionist. Don't you deserve better?
02:30It's a war on children. It's a war on a human being in the womb.
02:35I know that with this upcoming election, that that's what we have at stake.
02:40It's going to hurt women.
02:42This is, I mean, this is the battle.
02:45The soul of the country, right?
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