Abort Me Not: The battle over abortion in the US

Abort Me Not: The battle over abortion in the US

RT (2023)

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This documentary was filmed after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v Wade and features former CIA operative and whistleblower John Kiriakou as narrator. Roe v Wade was overturned in June 2022, the Supreme Court ruling 6 to 3 that the US Constitute does not guarantee US citizens’ right to privacy. With this verdict, the court simultaneously overturned US citizens’ right engage in sodomy or interracial marriage or undergo abortion. This means individual states now have the right to reinstate both anti-sodomy, anti-miscegenation and antiabortion laws.

As in the RT documentary produced a year earlier, the filmmaker record both pro and anti-abortion protests and interview participants. The anti-abortion protestors view pregnancy termination as murder of an unborn child. Supposed based on the view that life begins at conception, this argument doesn’t explain why most anti-abortion protestors also want to make contraception illegal.

A number of anti-abortion protestors reportedly base their opposition on concerns about the falling Caucasian birth rate (in contrast to rising African American and Latino birthrates). Ironically, however, most of the women charged under new abortion laws are women of color without access to health care and birth control services most white women enjoy.

Following the Supreme Court decision, 34 states have outlawed abortion but only a few have outlawed sodomy and interracial marriage.

Abortion in Russia is legal as an elective procedure up to the 12th week of pregnancy and in special circumstances at later stages. In 2009, Russia reported 1.2 million abortions, out of a population of 143 million people. In 2020, Russia had decreased its number of abortions to 450 thousand. Following the takeover of Russia by the Bolsheviks, in 1920 the Russian Soviet Republic under Vladimir Lenin became the first country in the world to allow abortion in all circumstances.