Help - what was the name of the movie about 3 women that had abortions before Roe V Wade?

[jillan]

Demi Moore was in it.

One woman had an abortion on her kitchen table, and then bled to death.

I want my daughter to see it.

[OHDEM]

1. If these walls could talk

Wonderful movie! Sequel is about being a lesbian.

[MinneapolisMatt]

2. "If Walls Could Talk"

..I think?

[OHDEM]

3. More info...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116607/

[jillan]

4. Thanks everyone!

DU is the best :grouphug:

[OHDEM]

5. You're very welcome!

:fistbump: Everyone should see that movie. It really exposes many sides of this complicated issue. I know Cher plays an abortion doc, Anne Heche is a college student and I think Sissy Spacek is a mom with older kids trying to get her college degree when she become pregnant. Some are before and some after Roe v. Wade. Demi is the one who get the illegal abortion. Very sad and intense film.

[jillan]

6. I don't think I have ever seen another movie that affected me as much.

I was telling my daughter that I wanted her to see it, and that all of her friends should see it, that way when my generation is dead and gone, I will know that her generation will fight as hard for Roe V Wade as we have.

[OmahaBlueDog]

7. One of the problems with the entire debate around this issue today...

...is that the living memory of the horrors of illegal abortion are fading with time.

[jillan]

8. That's what I'm afraid of.

Because even if abortions were made illegal, women would still have them.

We can never forget what our sisters went through.

[Control-Z]

9. There are quite a few of us

here on DU, who have had personal experiences from the bad old days, and have never forgotten. We do need to speak out more often. I know I should. But the DU environment has become one that is not so interested in, or friendly about, the issue.

The beautiful woman in my avatar died from an illegal abortion.

[Solly Mack]

10. I thought of you when I first read this thread

I wanted to mention you (but it felt presumptuous to do so) - and hoped you'd see it.

:hug:

[Control-Z]

16. Not presumptuous

coming from you.:) You've spoken of my mother, and of me for that matter, with only honor and compassion.

[jillan]

11. With the upcoming SCOTUS nominee - this once again will be front and center.

Thanks again for sharing your story with me :hug:

I will continue to speak out in her memory.

[Control-Z]

17. SCOTUS nominees

seem to be argued and chosen on the issue. Hopefully this time around it will bring about awareness and progress.

[CTyankee]

12. Did you see "Revolutionary Road"? The ending of that movie is so

gut wrenching that any young woman or man seeing it would be horrified. I had no idea what was going to happen and was really affected by it (I hadn't read the book).

I worked for Planned Parenthood and we were acutely aware that the issue for us older staffers was something we had lived and the younger staffers needed some help. We had several inservice talks, one with a doc who described how a patient he was attending as a young ob/gyn in the Emergency Room bled to death and he sat helplessly by. It was incredibly powerful. She was just a kid.

We need to keep this awareness going.

[muffin1]

13. Oh, yes.

That movie was amazing in general, but that last scene...
Jesus, it just blew me away.:cry:

[CTyankee]

14. You mean the scene with DeCaprio in the hospital?

It was devastating. DeCaprio's best scene in the entire movie. He was so genuine. What a stunning performance.

I sometimes wish we could have preserved somewhere the stories of doctors who can describe what ER's were like before Roe and how some of these women who came in bleeding profusely from an illegal abortion simply bled to death despite the medical attention they received. It must be pretty horrifying to watch a young woman bleed to death before your very eyes...

[kskiska]

15. Two other abortion movies of interest

1992, A Private Matter, with Sissy Spacek in the title role.
2004. Vera Drake, British picture.

[niyad]

18. you might also want to read the book "common secret" by Dr. Susan Wicklund

an abortion provider. the book chronicles about 20 years of her career, and it is incredible.

she was on c-span last year-- I was incredibly grateful that they ran that segment.

In This Common Secret Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war. Growing up in working class, rural Wisconsin, Wicklund had her own painful abortion at a young age. It was not until she became a doctor that she realized how many women shared her ordeal of an unwanted pregnancy—and how hidden this common experience remains.

This is the story of Susan's love for a profession that means listening to women and helping them through one of the most pivotal and controversial events in their lives. Hers is also a calling that means sleeping on planes and commuting between clinics in different states—and that requires her to wear a bulletproof vest and to carry a .38 caliber revolver. This is also the story of the women whom Susan serves, women whose options are increasingly limited.

Through these intimate, complicated, and inspiring accounts, Wicklund reveals the truth about the women's clinics that anti-abortion activists portray as little more than slaughterhouses for the unborn. As we enter the most fevered political fight over abortion America has ever seen, this raw and powerful memoir shows us what is at stake.

http://books.google.com/books?id=z3b45ABZAEwC&dq=autobiography+abortion+doctor&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0