How Roe v. Wade Came Under Attack Before | The Last Abortion Clinic (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

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How, despite “Roe v. Wade,” anti-abortion advocates successfully led campaigns to pass multiple state laws limiting access to abortion — with efforts in Mississippi as a blueprint. (From 2005)

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In the summer of 2005, more than 30 years after Roe v. Wade established access to abortion services as a fundamental right, a FRONTLINE documentary team spent two months traveling across the South, where states had been particularly active in passing restrictions on abortion.

"The assault on abortion rights is very clever. It's very smart. And we are losing," one anonymous abortion provider said in the resulting documentary.

In interviews with abortion providers and their patients, with staff at an anti-abortion pregnancy counseling center, and with key legal strategists on both sides of the national debate, producer Raney Aronson-Rath documented the success of the anti-abortion movement and the growing number of states with regulations limiting access to abortion. The documentary traced that success back to how anti-abortion advocates seized on Planned Parenthood v. Casey — the 1992 Supreme Court decision that upheld Roe v. Wade but changed the standard by which abortion laws were judged.

“Their tactics changed,” Betty Thompson, former director of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Mississippi’s last abortion clinic, told FRONTLINE of the anti-abortion movement’s response to Casey. “They began to see: ‘We have political clout now. And so while we have this power, we’re going to chip away at Roe v. Wade until the law is going to be on the books, but nobody will be able to access the service.'”

The documentary explored how Mississippi was a model for the anti-abortion movement’s efforts.

“Mississippi has an impressive track record,” Clarke Forsythe, senior legal counsel for Americans United for Life, told FRONTLINE. “Our goal is to see that other states pass the type of legislation that Mississippi has passed over the past decade, and we see a lot of legislative activity.”

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  • @missboss919
    The biggest take away was they care about the baby while in utero but after the baby is born they’ll give you a pack of pampers and a prayer and send you on your way. But they’re the same ones yelling about public assistance and what their tax dollars are going towards. Make it make sense. I’ve had one pregnancy and have a beautiful baby boy but I can’t imagine how life would be if we couldn’t provide for him. Talk about women’s health?!? Our mental health pre and post pregnancy is the key that is truly buried and discarded in all of this nonsense.
  • @tamarrajames3590
    I was made pregnant at the age of 14, by a sexually abusive Step Father who began his abuse when I was 6 , after he married my Mother. It was before there were abortion clinics in Canada, and women were dying from kitchen table abortions and do it yourself coat hanger abortions in both Canada and the USA. I was sent to a home for unwed Mothers halfway across the country from home for my 2nd and 3rd trimesters. There were girls as young as 12 there. I gave birth at the hospital across the street from the home, and sent back to the home the next day. For 10 days I fed my Son with a bottle, and that forms a bond…but I knew I had to give him up. I carried him into court, heard myself defined as an unwilling Mother, and a strange woman took him from me and left the court. I was unable to have another child later in my life because I was sterilized while they were “caring” for me. The night I returned home, my Stepfather was back in my room, telling me he would get me fitted for a birth control device. I left home, and was emancipated at 15 because I threatened to tell the truth if he didn’t make it happen. It took years to emotionally heal and stop harming myself. That is in America’s past…and it looks like you are heading for it again. Shame on those men who rally for pro-life, but have no problem putting a baby in there but take no responsibility thereafter. They have no voice in this issue. The women should just know better.🖤🇨🇦
  • @sherrod2282
    Its amazing that the state that is at the bottom of everything health care , education, poverty Mississippi is one of the worst state in the country and have the nerve to try and tell citizens about a very personal and private matter
  • @jdietzVispop
    You can’t make me wear a mask, but you can force someone to have a baby they don’t want. Who are these people?
  • @Garbeaux.
    I’ve literally been to this exact clinic a couple times with different friends. These people make an already terrible soul crushing situation all that much worse. I went as support but they would yell and sing with their buggies with baby dolls and pictures of aborted fetuses at me. It was disgusting. They literally have security guards who walk you to an from the building. One of the times I went was extremely traumatic bc my friend had been raped and got pregnant. They say they’re pro-life but they couldn’t care less about the life of that child born from rape or incest. They don’t care about the lives of already poor or super young girls lives that perpetuate a cycle of poverty. These same exact people are against welfare and food stamps for the exact children they want born into this world.
  • @ryhanejohnson9295
    Honestly Roe v Wade has been legal for decades and for you who have been saying that you'll adopt the unwanted babies why are their over 100,000 kids up for adoption and 23,000 kids aging out ofthe foster care system each year.Abortion isn't the issue it's you pro-lifers not giving the already born children the lives you said you would.🤷🏽‍♀️
  • @ByteReaper
    “I was a young, poor, white woman, trying to go to college...” really? Did you really just try to say you were like some of these women who have to work 2 jobs just get by? Some of these people need a reality check.
  • @Pilot597
    Everthing is beautifully summarized at 33:55. The problem with these pro-life movements is that they stop caring about the babies once they are born which is proof that it has nothing to do with saving a life and everything to do with dictating what women can and can’t do with their pregnancy based on their particular and personal situations.
  • @mizzjacksonxoxo
    It's May 2022...Can we focus on rent control & a livable pay wage, & stay out of decisions made in-between a woman's legs??!!...THANK YOU!! 😕😕
  • @jdenino6022
    These are the same people who are against the affordable care act.
  • @vickygraham2444
    My great aunt got pregnant by the priest's son when she was 15, in a small town in the 1920s. It was a scandal! She had a black market abortion and it ruined her. When she was in her early 20s she got married and wanted to have children with her husband. But she couldn't. If she'd had access to a safe legal abortion then she would have babies when she was ready. This country is taking a giant step backwards trying to force women to carry unwanted pregnancies. Desperate women will be heading for potentially destructive back alley abortions
  • @SC-pe9ir
    Banning abortions doesn't stop abortions. Desperate women will still find a way. The abortion pills are available online. All banning abortions does is take away access to doctor supervision. More women will end up in the ER.
  • @peterrusselbrooks5423
    the question is where are the men who get them pregnant...that should be the subject for discussion ...its disgusting to see women go through this alone
  • @whatthehellbob
    “It’s very clever and we are losing” She was right in 2005, I’d love to hear what that doctor has to say today.
  • @maburg713
    They aren't "pro-life", they are "pro-birth". They don't do a thing for these children after they're born as far as helping the Moms get work, or education, housing, Healthcare (if anything the opposite) or anything other than tossing them a pack or two of diapers and maybe a used stroller.
  • @fest5887
    It’s all about control I don’t care how much explanation made.Get your nose out of peoples business,A nations that prides itself on individual freedom and liberty should not be having these type of debate.
  • @arlenemacias806
    We need to realize our privilege! Not everyone is born in a loving family. Not everyone is free from being abused from their own friends/family members. And not everyone who becomes pregnant is supported by family, some are thrown out of their homes and into homelessness. I am saddened that some people forget about the privileges they have and impose their values on others.