Fault Lines - The Abortion War

It has become one of the most vicious, important and divisive battlegrounds in the 2012 US presidential election.

Since it was legalised in 1973, the issue of abortion has polarised the US, but now the battle has been taken to a new level.

Last year, an unprecedented number of laws have been passed across the US, all aimed at restricting abortion or reproductive rights.

But the fight goes far beyond the medical procedure, with Republican politicians even attacking the Obama administration for making contraception more readily available.

The US has seen more anti-abortion violence than any other country in the world. Since 1993, at least eight abortion providers, including four doctors have been killed. And there have been over 200 arsons and bombings against reproductive healthcare clinics since 1977.

Why is a medical procedure being reframed as a deeply divisive moral issue in the US?

Fault Lines travels to California to meet the next generation of frontline troops fighting to ban abortion, and to Ohio and Tennessee to investigate what lies behind the so-called war on women.

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• Starring:

  • Sebastian Walker
  • Zeina Awad
  • Josh Rushing
  • Anjali Kamat

• Produced by:

  • Mat Skene
  • Jeremy Young
  • Andréa Schmidt
  • Elizabeth Gorman
  • Laila Alarian
  • Sweta Vohra
  • Anjali Kamat

[MissAfroditeSands]

You are the one thats insulting.By claiming women should take the punishment for beeing raped.Men can just walk away,without taking any responsibility,and women get punished their entire lives for beeing used as a sexual object dude.Get your facts straight,and learn some empathy!

They should hang people like you alongside the rapists!

Abortion is a right women deserve!

I have news for you,we don't live in middle ages no more!

[MissAfroditeSands]

Right on mr "I used to do a lot of trolling back in the Modern Warfare 2 days, and decided why not start back up with MW3."

You are a troll,and will never be able to be a usefull member of society.Please kill yourself,we demand you to!U underaged adolescent.

For your info,i have 2 kids ,one in college and one on university.I bet they get better grades then your juvenile ass.

[TheCanadianDude]

Anti-abortion is really about being against the poor.

[Jose Betancourt]

This video didn't look at the pro life movement as a whole. This video was more biased then anything else.

[Samuel Wood]

More pro choice advocates should read about "Doctor" Kermit Gosnell.

[LuluHap4]

I'm pro abortion but a foetus is a life. It's not an easy debate.

[EPR89]

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What a fucking asshole!

[unclepete96]

you ever notice that all these women who are against abortion, you probably wouldnt fuck in the 1st place. lol. ahh george i miss you

[elleonhighheels]

A foetus is not a baby. Even the christian bible states that until God breathes life into us, we are nothing but dust.

[elleonhighheels]

I love how that loud mouthed woman at the beginning is all, "YOU ARE PAYING FOR ABORTIONS!" meanwhile she fails to mention the millions of single mothers getting welfare and raising fatherless children in poverty because they were emotionally bullied by Planned Parenthood out of getting an abortion.

I would think millions of women on welfare would cost the system more money than abortions.

[TheCoconutblood]

Abortion, Prostitution, Drugs were always part of human history and will always be.