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  • Abortion: Right to Life vs Right to Choose Part 2

    Abortion: Right to Life vs Right to Choose Part 2

    Part Two of a live broadcast from WCET-TV in Cincinnati covering the anti-abortion movement after a national “Right to Life” rally was held in the city.

  • Abortion: Right to Life vs Right to Choose Part 1

    Abortion: Right to Life vs Right to Choose Part 1

    Part One of a live broadcast from WCET-TV in Cincinnati covering the anti-abortion movement after a national “Right to Life” rally was held in the city.

  • [Desire: Julie’s Mother 4]

    [Desire: Julie’s Mother 4]

    This is raw footage of a discussion between Cassandra Swaing, Margit Gustafson, and director Julie Gustafson for the documentary Desire.

  • [Desire: Julie’s Mother 1]

    [Desire: Julie’s Mother 1]

    Videomaker Julie Gustafson and her teenaged subject/collaborator Cassandra Swaing show Julie’s mother footage from the documentary Desire, featuring Cassandra (as well as Cassandra’s own videos), in which Julie discusses her own life, including her marriage and her abortions.

  • [Casting the First Stone: Anti-abortion Demonstration]

    [Casting the First Stone: Anti-abortion Demonstration]

    Footage taken at an anti-abortion demonstration for the documentary Casting the First Stone, directed by Julie Gustafson. Includes an interview with Frances Sheehan and a press conference with Randall Terry.

  • Casting the First Stone

    Casting the First Stone

    Set against the background of the Supreme Court’s historic decisions on women’s reproductive rights, this documentary looks at the abortion controversy through the eyes of six women activists on both sides of the barricades in Paoli, PA. CASTING THE FIRST STONE focuses on six women who regularly confront each other from opposite sides of the picket line. Three believe that abortion should be an inalienable right. The other three believe it constitutes murder. Shelley Miller, director of a Paoli, PA women’s health clinic, endures constant harassment from anti-abortion groups camped outside the clinic’s doors. Joan Scalia, a Catholic and mother of six, defies her husband to join the most audacious of these anti-abortion groups called Operation Rescue. Sharon Owens, a clinic counselor, minister’s wife and adoptive mother of three, is closer to the middle. She cannot decide when human life “begins,” but feels a religious obligation as a Christian “to be in the place where hard decisions are being made.” Chronicling the daily lives of these and other women, director Julie Gustafson visits anti-abortion blockades, counseling sessions, a visit with a young mother whom protestors persuaded to have her baby, and Planned Parenthood’s emergency board meetings following the Supreme Court’s 1989 Webster v. Missouri decision that allowed states to deny some of the protections set by Roe v. Wade. Appearances include Randall Terry of Operation Rescue, Bill Baird, a longtime pro-choice activist and Faye Wattleton of Planned Parenthood.

    CASTING THE FIRST STONE makes clear that the conflict over abortion is not just political but also about the role and the rights of women in society. Clinic counselors, shaped by first wave feminist activism of the 1960s and 70s argue they are not promoting abortion but are “providing women with choices.” Other pro-life women reply, “You know what offends me about feminists? They say they are speaking for me.”

  • [Full Circle longer edit]

    A longer version of the Full Circle promo. Feminists from around the world convene for a dinner at Jane Adams’ Hull House in Chicago to discuss women’s issues.

 
 
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