lake of fire

we watched a quite long documentary yesterday called lake of fire. it's about abortion, shot in black & white. it has vivid images of abortion procedures, products of conception being suctioned from the uterus, including tiny and intact feet and hands, and not-quite-intact heads. (it's a good thing the film was in black & white, otherwise it would have been quite red.) it's about assassinations of abortion doctors, the maniacal pro-life groups. it has noam chomsky and alan dershowitz, and others, as voices (in my opinion, of course) of reason. it's about the question of when a fetus becomes a person - at conception? at one month? three months? birth? - but of course it doesn't answer the question. nor should it. it's a very evenhanded documentary, and roe, of roe v wade, is even in it, talking about how she has since changed her mind and become pro-life.