Abortion: Desperate Choices

Abortion: Desperate Choices (1992)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1992-05-05
  • Runtime: 1h 7min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: HBO
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Directors: Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson, Albert Maysles.

Summary

An intensely personal exploration of an explosive issue -- abortion in America. Wrenching first-person narratives from seven decades of women, each one facing an unplanned pregnancy -- and the dreadful decision that no one wants to make. Both pro-life and pro-choice, both out front on the picket line and inside the clinic, these women's stories turn politics into heart-searing drama: a pregnant 17-year-old and her pro-life mother whose conflict unfolds in front of the camera; a 22-year-old who became a pro-life protester when she learned that her mother nearly aborted her; an unhappy mother-of-two who's expecting a third when her marriage suddenly hits the rocks; a 71-year-old grandmother who still grieves for her mother, an early victim of illegal abortion. In this fusion of past and present, the history of abortion is the history of women -- told at a time in America when yesterday's back-alley abortions may be the only choice left for tomorrow.

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Production Susan Froemke Producer
Directing Susan Froemke Director
Sound Susan Froemke Sound
Camera Albert Maysles Director of Photography
Camera Susan Froemke Director of Photography
Camera John Romeo Assistant Camera
Editing Deborah Dickson Editor
Directing Deborah Dickson Director
Editing Sakae Ishikawa Assistant Editor
Production Sheila Nevins Executive Producer
Production Albert Maysles Producer
Production Deborah Dickson Producer
Directing Albert Maysles Director
Production Nell Archer Co-Producer
Camera James D. Cooper Assistant Camera
Sound Wendy Blackstone Music
Production Martha Wollner Researcher

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