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Movie Night: After Tiller

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After Tiller is an award-winning documentary film that takes us inside the lives of the remaining four doctors who were openly providing third-trimester abortions in the United States after the 2009 murder of Dr. George Tiller, a staunch defender and provider of those abortions. The 88-minute film, released in 2013, seeks to shed light, rather than more heat, and move beyond the national shouting match about abortion later in pregnancy.

You can see the trailer here:

Is this film for you? Probably, if you ponder the following:

  1. Why would a pregnant woman wait so late into a pregnancy to decide to have an abortion?
  2. Why would a woman who loves her unborn baby have a late abortion?
  3. After 24 weeks’ gestation, should abortion (always, sometimes, never) be illegal?
  4. What kind of people provide third-trimester abortions?
  5. Do third-trimester abortions differ much from premature, natural childbirth?

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Pro-Choice Friday News Rundown

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  • 1_image-largeTexas is trying its best to reduce access to abortion and we’re not gonna take it. What does that mean, exactly? Can you say LAWSUIT?! #Boom (HuffPo)
  • Speaking of Texas, Pro-Choice Princess Wendy Davis is expected to announce her run for governor! (Politico)
  • Once-a-month birth control? Count me the hell in. (The Week)
  • *Sigh* The knuckleheads in Colorado will not give up on “personhood.” The voters have rejected this malarkey twice before, and last year it was rejected from even making it to the ballot. Some would call this “persistent.” We call it moronic. (RH Reality Check)
  • Why do women have abortions after 20 weeks? This article will tell you. (ABC News)
  • The new documentary “After Tiller” confronts one of the most volatile topics in American life: late-term abortion. (WSJ)
  • Medical miracle on the horizon!!! Eight Promising Methods of Male Birth Control (Popular Science)
  • The lack of access to affordable family planning services is exacerbated when 13 million women of reproductive age have no health insurance. (Think Progress)