Abortion Clinic

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The video "Abortion Clinic" is a video on PBS Frontline, which was first aired on April 18, 1983.  This documentary was filmed at the Reproductive Health and Counseling Center in Chester, PA.  At that time, the city had a 30% unemployment rate.  During their five months at the clinic, the producer's of the film met with hundreds of women.  Two of those women, Barbara and Helen, have their abortion's filmed.  It is a struggle for both of them, emotionally and physically.  Two decades later, it remains one of Frontline's most powerful stories ever told. 

I'm hoping you all know what an abortion is. If you don't, then let me explain it to you.  An abortion is when a pregnancy is terminated, in which the fetus is sucked out of the mother's uterus.  This documentary is divided into six chapters.  Chapter one gives and overview of the women who visit seeking for abortions, and also the towns anti-abortion activists.  Chapter two and three tell the story of Helen, a seventeen year old who visits the clinic to get an abortion, and shockingly, this will be her second one.  Chapter four discusses the alternatives to abortions such as adoption and keeping the child.  Dr. George Isajiw and his wife are mentioned in this chapter, who both have counseled and supported over 500 women who decide to carry their babies into term.

Chapters five and six introduce Barbara, a seventeen year old women, who visits the clinic to get an abortion.  She has had a difficult and sad life.  She would get beaten by her boyfriend.  She managed to have a two year old boy named Michael, but now feels that her life is in a difficult situation to have anymore kids.  As her abortion is being showed, it is clearly visible that she is an a lot of pain and has a hard time with the abortion.

In my opinion, an abortion is a murder.  They should be illegal.  How is it that these mothers don't realize they are killing their babies?  They are denying their own flesh and blood and preventing a life from entering the earth.  Do you know what happens when an abortion is complete?  The fetus get tossed out, like it is worth nothing.  At a certain growth, the fetus can feel pain and if it's life is being terminated, should it be allowed to feel death?  This picture shows what is done to the fetus.  Do you think life should be treated this way?