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Jan 24: Film: "The Last Abortion Clinic" & Panel Disussion on Abortion Access
Jan 24 at 7pm: Abortion Access in California Today - Film: "The Last Abortion Clinic" and panel discussion. Tuesday, January 24th, 7 - 9 pm, New College Theater, 766 Valencia St., San Francisco
Abortion Access in California Today
Film: The Last Abortion Clinic / and panel discussion
Tuesday, January 24th, 7 - 9 pm
New College Theater, 766 Valencia St., San Francisco
Our reproductive rights may look good on paper, but for poor women and women in rural areas, is California really so different than Mississippi?
Join ACCESS/Women's Health Rights Coalition for a screening of Frontline's The Last Abortion Clinic and a panel discussion of abortion access in California today. Hear what ACCESS is doing to make sure ALL women in California can obtain quality abortion services, and how you can help make reproductive choice a reality right here in San Francisco.
Co-sponsored by ACCESS/Women's Health Rights Coalition
and New College's Center for Education and Social Action.
Free admission. Suggested donation to ACCESS $5-20.
Questions? Call 510-923-0739.
Film: The Last Abortion Clinic / and panel discussion
Tuesday, January 24th, 7 - 9 pm
New College Theater, 766 Valencia St., San Francisco
Our reproductive rights may look good on paper, but for poor women and women in rural areas, is California really so different than Mississippi?
Join ACCESS/Women's Health Rights Coalition for a screening of Frontline's The Last Abortion Clinic and a panel discussion of abortion access in California today. Hear what ACCESS is doing to make sure ALL women in California can obtain quality abortion services, and how you can help make reproductive choice a reality right here in San Francisco.
Co-sponsored by ACCESS/Women's Health Rights Coalition
and New College's Center for Education and Social Action.
Free admission. Suggested donation to ACCESS $5-20.
Questions? Call 510-923-0739.
For more information:
http://www.whrc-access.org/
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You can watch the entire video online at this link, and I recommend that you all do:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/clinic/view/
One blogger commented:
Unlike some other abortion-related news reports or documentaries that pick a side or person to profile, this program examined the abortion debate from the context of the 1992 Supreme Court decision in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. Casey changed the standard of review for laws regulating abortion from the Roe v. Wade trimester framework (abortions legal in the first trimester and the ability of states to regulate in subsequent trimesters) to an "undue burden" standard. The majority wrote, "An undue burden exists, and therefore a law is invalid, if its purpose or effect is to place substantial obstacles in the path of a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus attains viability."
Since Casey, states have enacted more than 200 regulations limiting access to abortion (parental notification, twenty-four hour waiting periods, etc.), testing the limits of "undue burden." This documentary looks at abortion in Mississippi and its neighboring communities, and the effects of the regulations. It was astounding how much has changed since Roe and Casey. There is now only one abortion clinic left in the entire state of Mississippi.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/clinic/view/
One blogger commented:
Unlike some other abortion-related news reports or documentaries that pick a side or person to profile, this program examined the abortion debate from the context of the 1992 Supreme Court decision in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. Casey changed the standard of review for laws regulating abortion from the Roe v. Wade trimester framework (abortions legal in the first trimester and the ability of states to regulate in subsequent trimesters) to an "undue burden" standard. The majority wrote, "An undue burden exists, and therefore a law is invalid, if its purpose or effect is to place substantial obstacles in the path of a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus attains viability."
Since Casey, states have enacted more than 200 regulations limiting access to abortion (parental notification, twenty-four hour waiting periods, etc.), testing the limits of "undue burden." This documentary looks at abortion in Mississippi and its neighboring communities, and the effects of the regulations. It was astounding how much has changed since Roe and Casey. There is now only one abortion clinic left in the entire state of Mississippi.
One hopes that abortion clinics continue to close. Opposition to war, the arms trade, abortion, WMD, capital punishment and all other violence is essential. Abortion is not progressive. It is horrific and promotes violence as a solution.
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