In The Womb Documentar Online Subtitrat
Lauretta Jaffray
The documentary is set to be released for on-demand viewing on October 11, 2016. In anticipation of the on-demand release, Kathleen and Stephen speak to some of the hardest questions they have faced from international audiences, including: Why is the film so dark? Should pregnant mother see it? Is it a pro-life film?
A cinematic rumination on life in the womb and its lasting impact on human development, human behavior, and the state of the world. Fetal origins experts, research scientists, psychologists, doctors and midwives, as well as examples from popular culture and mythology, collectively demonstrate how our experiences in utero shape our future. In the year since its film premier at the Seattle International Film Festival, In Utero has been translated into ten languages and won multiple awards.
LISA REAGAN: Welcome to Kindred, an alternative media and non-profit initiative of Kindred World. This is Lisa Reagan, and today I am talking with the filmmakers of the documentary, In Utero, Stephen and Kathleen Gyllenhaal. In Utero premiered at the Seattle Film Festival in 2015 and over the past year has traveled to film festivals around the world. It has also been translated into ten languages and won multiple awards. Welcome, Kathleen and Stephen.
STEPHEN GYLLENHAAL: I think that it is both neurobiology and psychology. The thing is, there are so many issues and so many different points of view about what is a human being, but certainly from a neurobiological point of view, yeah, there seems to be what is the neurobiological effect of trauma in utero or even trans-generational trauma on the fetus? What happens with that? Does this developing organism then split off from that trauma and then try and protect having to deal with that trauma? I mean, these are very complicated, almost quantum-like issues, which the film in a way we can talk about them here, but it is almost better to see the film and then talk about it afterwards.
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The flow of mail since the broadcast has been less intense, although still largely critical and from late-term abortion opponents calling, among other things, for PBS to air a program focusing on the opposition view. But there have also been some viewers who have applauded POV for providing this rare glimpse into the doctors and patients at the heart of this debate.
But this film is not about the broad, heated, decades-long debate about abortion. It is about these four doctors who, in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Tiller and facing intense protest from opponents and fearing for their own safety, carry out this procedure. It is also about the complex reasons that their patients seek their services and the ethical dilemmas surrounding these decisions. Some of these decisions fall into categories one might expect to hear. But others do not, especially the wrenching ethical discussion surrounding a 16-year-old abortion-seeker that unfolds on the program.
One is that in sharp contrast to the outrage of pro-life organizations and individuals protesting the showing of this program on PBS, the film, which debuted at the Sundance film festival and local theaters last year, received overwhelmingly positive reviews by some 53 film critics surveyed at the time.
I am extremely disappointed that PBS is showing the pro-abortion documentary, After Tiller, on CET in Cincinnati, as well as other PBS stations. I find it totally inconsistent that you would feature such a program, when you claim to be a premier source of children's programming. Abortion kills children, and late-term abortion in particular kills children in a hideous, painful way. Clearly you have no regard for children's lives since you are promoting this program. I have seen nothing to date on PBS that promotes life in any way, unless it is promoting the lives of dolphins or bald eagles. Human babies are nothing in your worldview. Your claim to be educators for children is a bald-faced lie.
I believe that the broadcast of the POV documentary "After Tiller" violated PBS's policy of intellectual honesty. This documentary is clearly very radical late-term pro-abortion propaganda. It focuses completely on the woman's problems and ignores the fact that a human life is being ended. It very quickly glosses over the fetal pain issue in spite of congressional testimony by competent researchers and passage in the US House of H.R.1797: Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in 2013. It will be very interesting to see if PBS is willing to broadcast the movie about Kermit Gosnell that has been crowd-funded on Indiegogo.
I wanted to ask PBS to consider its commitment to objective coverage when it airs the documentary "After Tiller." The film is a well done, albeit deeply sympathetic presentation of abortion. I ask PBS to give equal air time to an equally good quality pro-choice documentary. Thank you for PBS' standard of excellence in news and feature coverage.
I would hope in light of the airing of "After Tiller' last night, that you will level the playing field for your viewers and find a similar movie to air for the unborn children affected by the "Tiller's" of the world. Can we muster some compassion for them? Of course, there are always two sides to every story. You decided to paint such a compassionate piece (with the help of Sundance) for your pro-abortion viewers and I expect you will do the same for your pro-LIFE viewers. With so many tragic things going on in the world today, one has to wonder why PBS chooses the topics it does. I will continue, though, to pray for you, PBS, and all those who justify the killing of any child, born or unborn.
I'm writing regarding how PBS 'upholds its own standards of editorial integrity'. I question why PBS has chosen to dedicate airtime to pro-choice programming, while not attempting to provide airtime to the pro-life side of the discussion. Trying to 'humanize' late-term abortions is a daunting task that PBS is undertaking...why not at least give the pro-life camp a chance at showing how truly dehumanizing abortion is? I suggest the movie 180 by Living Waters. As it stands right now, PBS has chosen to fit in with the other mainstream media in their efforts to silence the opposition. It seems that writing your own 'standards of editorial integrity' (as opposed to simply being ethical), PBS has opened the door to doing anything they want, and then stamping it 'ethical.' Thanks for your time.
PBS aired "After Tiller" in an attempt to make abortionist-doctors seem human even as they kill babies in the last months in the womb. The movie is very sad on many levels. First, a murderer killed abortionist, Dr. Tiller. Yet, does that give abortionist-doctors the right to take the life of babies in late term? Are these abortionists victims and heroes or fellow murderers? Why are our tax dollars being used on Public Broadcasting Systems to glamorize and airbrush those who make money taking the life of defenseless babies? The show stated that 1% of abortions in the U.S. are late term. That would mean 13,000 such abortions in our country each year. If there were 13,000 child abuse cases, wouldn't there be outrage? Destroying a fully formed baby in the womb is child abuse leading to death. Why would PBS try to "humanize" these four "doctor" who do this?
The decision to air "After Tiller" is entirely within the bounds of free speech, which I entirely support. But with the use of taxpayers' money comes the responsibility of equal time, which would require other perspectives to be featured; one case being the airing of the production "40." It is this aspect of free speech which sets the example for the rest of the world.
I recently watched the movie After Tiller. It was a well-made "documentary" with a very strong bias. Facts were used in ways to persuade the audience. I am concerned that PBS's choice to air this (without other perspectives on the issue), reflects a position on the partial birth abortion issue. I wouldn't have an issue with the airing of this if PBS would present the other side of the issue. What happens when doctors are wrong, and a child is not doomed to a life of suffering as a handicapped individual - abortion is like the death penalty (the finality of it should make us avoid it). I've watched PBS's children's programming - there appears to be a strong moral background for this. Could this please extend to adult programming, too? This exclusively one-sided presentation to the public with public tax dollars fails to impress.
I am discouraged by your decision to air "After Tiller." Though I know the doctors who perform late term abortions are human, I also know the little babies whom they kill are humans also. Taking a life and death decision into their hands and deciding one human is better off to live than another is making a divine judgment which should be left only to God who knows best. Please air the other perspective and show the documentary, "40" which shows the reality of Life in the womb. Science has confirmed it, though some deny it. Truth is truth, show the truth.
I just finished watching "After Tiller" on the PBS station. Abortion in my eyes is wrong. I do not approve of killing babies even though this is the law of the land. The presentation of "After Tiller" is very disturbing. I shook my head in disbelief listening to these doctors, and counselors justifying why they need to do these late term abortions. Since tax payer money was used to justify abortions, why not present the "Choose Life" and show the goodness in the mother keeping her baby or adoption. I watch a lot of very good programs on PBS and I feel taxpayer money is put to good use. Thank you for your consideration is this matter.
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