FAU Libraries Media Center - Videographies, Abortion

VH 0450 Abortion
Summary: Examines the dilemma of women wishing abortions vs. the public outcry against abortion. Also gives the view point of teenagers, parents, counselors, and medical abortion battle. 026 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ABORTION, SOCIAL WORK

VH 6449 Abortion and the Law: Before Roe vs. Wade
Summary: A documentary which focuses on the legal, moral, social, and psychological aspects of abortion in the U.S. presents clergymen, lawyers, and physicians who hold diametrically opposed views and tells of specific cases of abortion. Includes a summary of the problems, attitudes, and legal aspects in England, Sweden, Poland, Chile, Mexico, and Japan. 057 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: ABORTION Series: TURNING POINTS IN THE DEBATE ON ABORTION & BIRTH CONTROL

VH 6450 Birth Control and the Law: Before Griswold vs. Connecticut
Summary: Highlights the problem of supplying birth control information to patients at a tax-supported institution. Debates whether tax-supported hospitals should or should not give out birth control information and discusses the law and moral values that are involved in this decision. 055 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: ABORTION Series: TURNING POINTS IN THE DEBATE ON ABORTION AND BIRTH CONTROL

VH 2128 Fighting Back
Summary: Explores diverse aspects of Christian fundamentalism in the United States, profiling the personal and spiritual focus of Bob Jones University in South Carolina; the ambitions of Randall Terry, head of the anti-abortion group "Operation Rescue"; and convicted Watergate conspirator and born-again Christian Charles Colson, among others. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ABORTION Series: GLORY & THE POWER, THE: FUNDAMENTALISMS OBSERVED

VH 1210 Mary Ann Glendon
Summary: Bill Moyers interviews Mary Ann Glendon, professor of comparative law, who discusses abortion in the U.S. and Europe, and explains how she believes "Roe vs. Wade" gave rise to misinterpretation of the abortion issues in the U.S. 029 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: ABORTION, SOCIOLOGY Series: WORLD OF IDEAS WITH BILL MOYERS, A

VH 0688 No Longer Silent
Summary: A documentary of the struggle of women against injustice in Delhi, India. Shows the cultural preference for having male babies and the tendency of expectant mothers to demand abortion of female fetuses. 056 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: ABORTION, ASIAN STUDIES

VH 3725 Other Side of the Fence, The
Summary: Nancy O'Brien and her husband Michael moved to Cincinnati in 1985, the same year filmmaker Lynn Estomin began working for Planned Parenthood. The O'Briens formed a militant anti abortion organization, Project Jericho, and soon Cincinnati became the national testing ground for anti-choice tactics. For two years Lynn Estomin recorded on video the weekly harangues and confrontations outside the clinic. Then Nancy disappeared from public view. Five years later, Lynn tracked her down and make this portrait of an articulate woman searching hard for her own answers. 028 Min. VIDEO Subject: ABORTION

VH 4453 Right to Live, Right to Die
Summary: Discussion of the right to make intensely individual decisions about dying, abortion, personal freedom, and privacy. 060 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: ABORTION Series: CONSTITUTION, THE

VH 0267 Time To Be Born And A Time To Die, A: The Ethics of Choice
Summary: A panel discussion on two topics; first the right to refuse medical treatment, secondly the right to an abortion. 066 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: ABORTION

VH 2707 When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories
Summary: Illuminates this largely undocumented era, revealing the physical, emotional, and legal consequences when abortion was a criminal act. This oral history, which weaves together the untold stories of desperate women and those who tried to help them, reveals the brutal tragedies, as well as the courage and heroism of a shrouded time. 028 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: ABORTION

VH 3586 Women
Summary: This program looks at women's struggles, charting the milestones over the past hundred years, as women worked to improve their position in society, from the battle for suffrage, to control over their own bodies through birth control and abortion. 048 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: ABORTION Series: HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY