Last updated on April 6th, 2021 at 02:52 pm<\/p>\n
The end of February in the United States saw the premiere of Roe v. Wade<\/a>,<\/em> a film based on the facts concerning one of the most controversial court cases in American judicial history, which to this very day rather sharply divides the people of America, as well as the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roe v. Wade is an \u201cuntold story of how people lied, how the media lied, and how the courts were manipulated\u201d to legalize abortion across the United States. The decision which was rendered in 1973, has so far taken more than 60 million American lives, said Nick Loeb<\/a>, the film\u2019s co-director and co-producer. Loeb also plays the role of abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson<\/a>. The film documents Nathanson’s journey when, after the discovery of the ultrasound, he was able for the first time to see how a baby behaved during an abortion. Nathanson would subsequently become an ardent opponent of the procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The film was shot in secret and under a false title in order to avoid media backlash. Despite all the precautions, some actors and members of the film crew – including the original director – left the project when they realized that it was a pro-life film. Also, as was the case with the movie Unplanned<\/em><\/a>, Facebook banned advertising for the film,<\/a> as well as the film promotions for the crowdfunding site. It is therefore clear that Roe v. Wade remains one of the most controversial decisions in the history of the American judiciary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The film covers the events in the United States from the 1960s, through the court case which ended in January 1973, and up to the year 1985 – beginning and ending with the testimony of Dr. Nathanson, who is also the narrator in the film. After his fianc\u00e9e had a back-alley abortion, Nathanson (who passed away in February 2011) decided to dedicate himself to \u201csaving women\u201d, and in one decade was responsible for 60,000 abortions. He personally performed about 5,000 in his own private clinic; aborting even his own child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the real \u201cfather of the abortion movement\u201d was Larry Lader, who was mentored by Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist and the founder of Planned Parenthood<\/a><\/em> which is the largest provider of \u201cabortion services\u201d in the United States today. He recruited Nathanson and feminist Betty Friedan to start the first American organization for the legalization of abortion \u2013 the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the film, we see Lader finding the \u201cright girl\u201d \u2013 pregnant with an unwanted child, in a poor financial situation and with a troublesome history \u2013 in order to launch a court case that would demonstrate that the legalization of abortion is necessary to help women in difficult situations. However, Norma McCorvey, alias Jane Roe, actually never had an abortion, because the court procedure lasted much longer than her pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n