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FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

The Abortion Divide

FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

FRONTLINE

Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Documentaries, Frontline

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

FRONTLINE goes inside the fight over abortion, told through the stories of women struggling with unplanned pregnancies. Drawing on a landmark FRONTLINE film from the 1980s, the documentary takes a look at both sides of the abortion divide in a community still embroiled in the conflict.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audio Cast, the enhanced audio version of our television documentaries.

0:06.6

But we wanted to take a moment to remind you about Frontline's other offering,

0:11.0

a podcast that produces original documentaries made for listening.

0:15.4

It's called the Frontline Dispatch, and you can find it by searching Frontline Dispatch in iTunes,

0:21.4

or wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:24.0

But back to the Frontline Audio Cast.

0:26.4

Here is the audio cast of the abortion divide, broadcast April 23rd on PBS.

0:48.6

Three decades ago, Frontline told the story of a Pennsylvania community divided over abortion.

0:54.8

And this is a life-size model of a pregnant uterus.

0:57.6

Now we return to a jam and a conflict that has only escalated.

1:01.4

We realize if we're going to outlaw abortion, that we have to be able to help women who feel that's running alternative.

1:06.4

After hearing from women caught in the middle.

1:08.8

Because I'm a mother, I'm not supposed to be doing stuff like this right.

1:12.0

It's not that simple though.

1:13.8

As the battle continues.

1:15.2

There was the sense that women simply can't make moral decisions on their own.

1:20.0

The state has to intervene and tell them what to do.

1:23.0

24 hour waiting.

1:24.2

An intimate look at abortion.

1:25.8

The people on both sides.

1:27.8

This is literally a life-for-death decision.

1:29.4

And to ask a mother to think about it for 24 hours is very reasonable.

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