By
James
Hirsen
PBS
recently aired "After Tiller," a documentary that lauds doctors in
the United States who openly perform late-term abortions. The film leaves out
essential facts, falsely stereotypes the pro-life movement, and disingenuously
sanitizes the practice of partial birth abortion. It has nevertheless won the
Candescent Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and has been written about
in glowing terms by numerous mainstream movie critics, which resulted in its
obtaining of an extremely positive 94% rating on the Rotten Tomatoes Web site.
A.
O. Scott of The New York Times
acknowledged that the film is "a partisan document in the culture wars."
The movie critic gave it a positive review nonetheless, opining that the
documentary is "impressive because it honestly presents the views of
supporters of legal abortion, and is thus a valuable contribution to a public
argument that is unlikely to end anytime soon." [more...]
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