Last week on PBS’s program NOW, they tried to bring awareness to the increasing anti-abortion support of the Democratic Party, highlighting the Stupak ammendment in the will-it-ever-happen health care reform bill and some great responses from NARAL, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, Howard Dean, and particularly awesome clips of the Clinic Manager of the Allentown Women’s Center. All-in-all some good discussion on the political climate.
The headline “Democrats and the New Politics of Abortion” was set against the story of a young, poor woman named Tina in Allentown, PA deciding to have a surgical abortion procedure at her local women’s clinic. Just on the surface, this story is truly empowering to watch: a woman is allowing the cameras to document her decision making process, from counseling to recovery, and did not even ask to have her face blurred as the other women in the clinic requested. Go a step further–listen to Tina tell her story–and you are convinced that she is confident in her decision, and ridiculously brave to let us in on her life.
