After Tiller (2013)

A one star review to give on something you don't agree on. "Children with disabilities should be given the chance and the support at life, let them have a voice " yes but lets not give a voice to adults who get incurable diseases and are made to suffer cause they sometimes have a voice THEY wish to die? Always remember Tiller who was a good person and did help a lot of people but he's DEAD now am sure his family are OK with it now. Still one star for a church murder in cold bold. Westeire?Wow some people not once you mention a nut job killed a guy with religion backing up his story again.

American producers and documentary directors Lana Wilson and Martha Shane's individually debut and second documentary feature which they co-wrote with film editor and director Greg O'Toole, was conceived after Lana Wilson had watched a news coverage in 2009 concerning an American late term abortion care provider and Lutheran named George R. Tiller and the anti-abortion movement in the United States. It premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition section at the 29th Sundance Film Festival in 2013, was shot on locations in USA and is an American production which was produced by Lana Wilson and Martha Shane. It tells the story about four educated and trained professional physicians named LeRoy Carhart, Susan Robinson, Shelley Sella and Warren Hern who openly works and performs third-trimester abortions which are often done at the stage in the gravidity when the once biological cell called zygote is potentially able to live outside the woman's uterus, at legitimate abortion clinics in the American states of Maryland, New Mexico and Colorado. Distinctly and subtly directed by independent filmmakers Lana Wilson and Martha Shane, this quietly paced and non-fictional documentary which is narrated from multiple viewpoints, draws a reasonable, humane and informative portrayal of two men and two women who despite decades of consistent persecution by people who are against their practice of legal medical abortions, assists, protects and respects the rights of women to make their own decisions based on their own evaluations and carry out the surgical treatment they ask for if the surgery doesn't endanger their reproductive health or their lives. While notable for its real milieu depictions, reverent cinematography by cinematographers Hillary Spera and Emily Topper and use of sound, this dialog-driven and narrative-driven true story about a critical medical service within the public health sector which was legalized in the U.S. in 1973 by the U.S. supreme court, potential life, alleviation of suffering, human interest before state interest, a woman educated pro-choice physician who continued his fathers' work in the early 1970s, the people whom he inspired and how they work with their patients and regard their profession, the history of anti-abortion crimes, and the variegated and far from casual reasons as to why someone goes through with these specific types of abortion which are distinguishable from miscarriage and first-trimester, second-trimester, self-induced, forced, sex-selective and illegal abortion, contains numerous interesting and heartrending interviews and a timely score by composers Andy Cabic and Eric D. Johnson. This constructively conversational, densely observed and relevant feature-length documentary which is set in the United States of America in the early 21st century and where women from various age groups, situations and religious or non-religious upbringing who are twenty-nine weeks and longer into their pregnancy are provided with an opportunity to tell their stories without having to justify themselves to anyone, is impelled and reinforced by its cogent narrative structure, subtle continuity, substantial depictions of the real-life situations of the doctors, distanced look at some of the protesters and by choosing to remain close to the main subjects who are vital to the understanding of the central theme and emphasizing theirs, the nurses, the counsellors and the patients' viewpoints instead of constructing a more fragmented narrative with the archival footage which is commendably used to enlighten rather than to inflame. An accomplished approach to a historic theme which is exemplified when a polarized sixteen-year-old Roman Catholic girl navigates it into the center of humanity.

Even my friends pro-choice don't agree with this movie. Its actually hard for me to review this movie focusing just on this movie. It was shown in Ireland this week. The documentary-movie tries to bends peoples opinions that late term abortions are necessary. I see nothing noble about this movie, Children with disabilities should be given the chance and the support at life, let them have a voice, they are our children. Maybe we would be surprised at value of there contribution to life. I went to see the movie because one of the abortionists was speaking on Irish radio. Its impossible to come to terms how these procedures could be carried out. I suppose had they actually shown a late term abortion on the documentary people might have seen it for what it is. It really is sadly taking the life of a viable child. We can dress it up with music and soft words and spin it with this movie, but it is what it is. Sorry of this review seems very political or even extreme, I just felt very very uncomfortable with this documentary. We need to stand up for the reality before us, late term abortion is pretty horrific, euthanasia of the child because we think they would be better off out of the way. Sorry to IMDb for this review, but since the movie is posted here for review then I give mine,

I wanted to give this movie a 9 but I couldn't think of anything wrong with it, so I have to default to a 10. Saw it last night at Full Frame Film Festival. Nicely done, technically adept, holds your interest, and tells powerful stories about the four remaining doctors who perform late-term abortions in the US, following the murder of Dr. Tiller. You will hear and see interviews with patients, many of whom had planned pregnancies but found out on a late ultrasound that the baby had a defect incompatible with life or leading to a severely reduced quality of life (vegetative states, constant pain, and the like). You will hear interviews with young women who were raped and initially in denial of the pregnancy, then came to the painful decision to abort in the late second trimester. Should be required viewing for every legislative body across the country. Also for anti-abortion protesters, but that will never happen. Deserves showing on TV, hope it gets a PBS contract. I predict these young filmmakers have a brilliant future ahead of them.