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Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion

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This documentary examines the strategies of American anti-abortion activists. Mild-mannered college students are trained by conservative Christian organization Focus on the Family on how to infiltrate campuses and make their points. Other activists are more agitated, including the Rev. Don Spitz, who advocates violence against abortion doctors and clinics. Many rely on graphic, blown-up photographs of aborted fetuses to get people's attention, often infuriating passers-by.

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Melissa Anderson Time Out Rated: 3/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Jack Mathews New York Daily News Here's a movie everyone can hate. Anti-abortionists will hate it because, without any editorializing, [it] show the activists for the self-righteous zealots they are. And pro-choicers will hate it because the people and their propaganda are so odious. Rated: 2.5/4 Jun 18, 2007 Full Review David Edelstein New York Magazine/Vulture Whatever your views on abortion, you need to hear the subjects of this film, if only to be able to fight them more effectively. Jun 18, 2007 Full Review Ross Anthony Hollywood Report Card Two college students hope to create the first unbiased doc on the issue. They refused funding from churches, etc utilizing sources for student projects instead. Well done. Rated: 3/4 Jul 5, 2007 Full Review Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews Sharp appraisal of fetus fetishists. Jul 3, 2007 Full Review Frank Lovece Film Journal International This shot-on-video documentary masterfully gives a balanced picture, sans editorializing. Jun 25, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member A horrifying inside look into how the pro-life operation is run. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member It's not an easy or pleasant film to watch but in my opinion it does what a good documentary should do, which is showing both sides of the issue. At moments it seemed conservatively biased and others it seemed liberally biased but it treated its subject matter with the attention and care it deserves. It's a tough film because it's a tough issue. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member this acts as nothing more than a wake up call for the rest of the nation to rise up and support a woman's choice - that no religious beliefs have any place in the government. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Wow, this documentary is certainly hard to stomach, not because of the graphics, but because of the utter crap you need to sit through. Definitely won't be able to sit through this one again, unless I wanna end up with liver disease. Though this seems like a really pro-life piece, having 90% showing how the pro-life movement has changed its PR - because it's really public relations, right? - it really paints them like a bunch of radicals... no different than any other terrorists... or what do they call them? Oh yeah, extremist guerillas... No wonder we are doomed. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member I made it through an hour then turned it off. One can only stomach so much bullshit from some of the dumbest fucks on the face of the earth. And if my language offends, oh well. There is no word that truly describes how repulsive these people are. I am not unsympathetic, but maybe it is the part of me that likes the truth, or part of me that hates religion that drives my extreme hatred of this movement. To put a huge photo display on a college campus is fucking disgusting. For a woman to claim she got breast cancer because an abortion is fucking absurd. I really have no problem with a reasonable pro-lifer, but I've rarely seen those. The alternative is some of the dumbest, most brain-washed wastes of skin we will ever see. Truly, watching these people makes me ashamed to be human. Ha ha but the documentarian clearly did his job of capturing the movement and occasionally calling BS when needed. No complaints on that end. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Unforgettable, thoroughly unsettling look at the pro-life movement in the United States and its victories through professional agitation. The film's thesis says - in no uncertain terms - that the side provoking the most visceral, emotional response is the winning side. Final moments - showing a pro-choicer being provoked into a rage, then smothered and paralyzed by a group of pro-life women and children, and arrested for assault, leave little doubt which side has the advantage. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis This documentary examines the strategies of American anti-abortion activists. Mild-mannered college students are trained by conservative Christian organization Focus on the Family on how to infiltrate campuses and make their points. Other activists are more agitated, including the Rev. Don Spitz, who advocates violence against abortion doctors and clinics. Many rely on graphic, blown-up photographs of aborted fetuses to get people's attention, often infuriating passers-by.
Director
Stephen Fell, Will Thompson
Distributor
First Run
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 15, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 17, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.0K
Runtime
1h 45m