Ferment Over Fetus Film

If you haven't caught enough of the abortion debate over the past few decades, now you can watch one on television. A British documentary, My Fetus, which will air on U.K.'s Channel 4 Tuesday, contains footage from an abortion performed on a woman who was four weeks pregnant, as well as images of aborted fetuses that are 10, 11 and 21 weeks old. "I wanted to kick-start debate by allowing both sides of the argument to actually look at what an abortion is," said Julia Black, the 34-year-old filmmaker. While Channel 4 defended its choice to show the film, one anti-abortion group was less than impressed: "This was principally an attempt to make an abortion seem easy, normal, good.… Her film could have addressed the humanity of the unborn child more successfully."
-- Jenny McKeel