It was successful in either firing or expelling more than 200 suspected gay UCF OFFICE OF LGBTQ SERVICES FRED FEJES Vessel premiered at SXSW Film Festival in 2014, winning the Audience Award for Documentary in Competition and a Special Jury Award for Political Courage. Lets hope it incites us to action, and not to despair. Weve seen consistent lip service from the Biden-Harris administration, but not enough action, she said. Almost daily, the Reproductive Health Services clinic in Montgomery, Alabama, receives several versions of the same call: Are yall still doing abortions?". He explained exactly what he was doing. After Tiller is streaming on Amazon Prime. That is, until May 1972, when two women went to the police to report the collective, after attending a counseling appointment with their sister-in-law, who was seeking an abortion. In a letter shared in advance with the Guardian and sent on Thursday by nearly 200 organizations and experts, the authors detail how, since the overturning of the federal constitutional right to abortion in June 2022, some 22 million women and girls of reproductive age live in states where abortion access is now either banned or inaccessible. So we had about over 100 counts of felony homicide against us, each of us. ! they shouted, going from room to room looking for a male physician. And although they continued to disagree, together they successfully prevented future violence. Anybody can be a catalyst for change. Judith Arcana was one of them. FRONTLINE goes inside the fight over abortion, told through the stories of women struggling with unplanned pregnancies. After realizing the consequences of anti-abortion law around the world, she took it upon herself to provide abortions on ships in the ocean. Since its first season in 1983, FRONTLINE has been covering the battle over abortion at both the national and state levels. MARIE LERNER: We need to turn the anger, the fear, the concern we've got into protest. But doing so gave them a real understanding of what they were capable of at a time when a lot of women were told they werent capable of much, Pildes said. Call Jane.. You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. They say that between 1968 and 1973, they provided free or low-cost abortions to more than 11,000 women. Beginning in the late 1960s, signs hung up around the city and advertisements in underground newspapers offered a vague alternative: Pregnant? Same-sex marriage became legal in Florida in January, 2015. Some women left the collective because they felt both personally betrayed and that they had betrayed the women they counseled. The film, which premieres on HBO and HBO Max tonight (June 8) at 9 p.m., tells the story of a group of women who ranand were. More 33 mins 13 Jun 2018. Essential Partners For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. BOOTH: And word spread, and someone else called. They note that the UN committee has already established that denial of abortion can cause physical and mental suffering so severe in pain and intensity as to amount to torture. You can always mobilize to help one another, you can organize, and ultimately thats what matters most, Pildes said. Lets hope that incites us to action, and not to despair. Click here to find a screening in your area. Drawing on a landmark FRONTLINE film from the 1980s, the documentary takes a look at both sides of the abortion divide in a community still embroiled in the conflict. Brutal, costly abortions at the hands of the Mafia. BOB GRAHAM Cole and Savannah LaBrant, who run a family YouTube channel called "The LaBrant Fam" where they have over 13 million subscribers, have faced backlash for releasing a video on April 9 labeled a "documentary" about abortion. In the film, they describe taking turns helping the women who called. The committee was tasked with producing a report with policy recommendations, but Himes wanted to go further than that. N. ADAM WATSON O n the day Angela Saini talks to me from her book-lined study in New York, the patriarchy is hard at work all over the world. They each were charged with eleven counts of abortion and conspiracy to commit abortion. When someone suggested Parker, Himes said, I was a little concerned initially that people would see it and say, What in the world is Carrie Bradshaw doing in this documentary? referring to her character in the long-running HBO series Sex and the City. But, he said, She does a wonderful job of telling her own story, and its a remarkable story.. UCF Center for Distributed Learning, 2015 - University of Central Florida FRONTLINEs latest documentary, "The Abortion Divide," paints a portrait of the complicated, personal issues surrounding abortion. To arrange a press screener, an interview with the filmmakers, Josh Sabey and Sarah Perkins, an interview with an Essential Partners expert, or an interview with participating members of THE ABORTION TALKS dialogues, please contact: Daniel Pritchard The film was released theatrically in New York . Actress Sarah Jessica Parker narrates the piece, acknowledging briefly in the introduction that her own family faced financial difficulties during her childhood. That context could have strengthened the documentarys larger political message about civil disobedience as an effective solution to institutional failure. The abortion clinic is less than a mile from Texas, where abortion is illegal. The following people and organizations have made the public television broadcast of our film possible through their generous contributions. DEL BARCO: The Janes hired an attorney who had represented the Black Panthers. The class sought out interviews with experts who could speak with authority on the Johns Committee or the current state of LGBTQ affairs in the state of Florida. January 28, 20223:00 PM ET. This documentary tells the story of a young doctor named Rebecca Gomperts. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 409 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20024-2188. Interviews were conducted with members of the Florida public school system, survivors of the Johns Committee, a retired police officer who worked with the committee, and former Florida governor and retired U.S. The constant threat of not just being arrested for getting an abortion but for even talking about one which was a felony. That also means empowering through education, via practices designed explicitly to provide information. Tel : 617-923-1216 Cassanello, Mills, Hos and their former students launched a fundraising campaign to cover the cost of licensing images and music in the film. Several decades after Roe v. Wade, the anti-abortion movement had successfully spearheaded campaigns in multiple states, passing laws that limited access to abortion including in Mississippi, where a single facility performing abortions remained. Arcana was married to Pildes father, Michael, so she was familiar with the history of Jane, Pildes said. Here are two documentaries that offer context to the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion. Among the signatories are the Global Justice Center, Pregnancy Justice, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Not all materials collected were included in the resulting new documentary about the Johns Committee. (The reason, he alludes to on camera, is that the Mafia was closing in on him.). Their work dramatically changed when Mike the man who had been performing the procedures after Howard, and who, unbeknownst to some of the Janes, was not a medically licensed physician decided that he didnt want to do it anymore. In 1963, 280 deaths were recorded in the U.S. from induced abortions, and in 1965, they dropped to 235, according to Pew Research, which indicated that the numbers fell to single digits or zero every year after Roe v. Wade was decided. Lie back and do as I tell you. April 23 and August 27, 2019 DEL BARCO: Posting the phone number on bulletin boards and underground newspapers, the Janes set up a clandestine system. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Madeline McComish (top row, center), a retired chemist, is past president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life. Screenings come with free resources, including the official ABORTION TALKS dialogue guide by Essential Partners. The ads were the work of an underground abortion network started by University of Chicago student Heather Booth that helped an estimated 11,000 Chicago women obtain safe and affordable abortions before Roe v. Wade was handed down. The system is tilted in favor of people who have already made it, and we need to be really serious about addressing that, he said. Wheres the doctor? While serving as an usher at his Wichita, Kansas, church, Dr. Tiller was killed by an anti-abortion extremist. On May 3, Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the documents authenticity, said that it did not represent a final court decision or the final position of any member on the issues in the case, and requested an investigation into the leak, which he called a singular and egregious breach of trust. The film will debut on HBO on Wednesday, June 8 and will then be available to stream on HBO Max. Authored by Justice Samuel Alito in February, the draft opinion would override 50 years of legal precedent, striking down the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling that determined women have a fundamental right to an abortion, and instead would grant individual states the full authority to regulate or prohibit abortion. The film tracked abortion opponents actions: lobbying state legislatures, looking to see where courts drew the line on what constituted an undue burden, then seeking to incrementally restrict abortion access within those evolving parameters. We knew that some would be injured. In reality, the Jane Collective was not unique. Around this time, too, abortion became legal in New York state and Washington, D.C., which meant that a large demographic of their clientele middle- and upper-class white women could travel to obtain a legal abortion (abortion was still illegal in Illinois). But finding women who actually obtained abortions from the Janes was more difficult. Ned Lamont, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, and local OB/GYNs spoke at the event put on by DefendDemocracy to protest against the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. In 1965, Heather Booth received that call for help a friends sister was suicidal for want of an abortion. The assurance, the trust, the respect I got when I tell you they changed my life, they changed my life., She added, holding back tears, When I saw women caring about women it was a whole new world for me., The Jane Collective is estimated to have provided around 11,000 abortions from 1969 to 1973. COLLEEN HAMILTON, LYNN AND LOUIS WOLFSON II Web Site Copyright 1995-2023 WGBH Educational Foundation. These developments follow a decades-long effort by U.S. The Labrant family's YouTube documentary on abortion was met with immediate contempt on social media. Get in the bathroom. The USs role as a leader on the world stage does not exempt the country from these obligations in fact, it should require them to do more, said a representative from the Global Justice Center, which is one of the signatories.