Call Jane (2022)
This story tells about a time before Roe vs Wade when termination was illegal in many U.S. states. Joy, the wife of a criminal lawyer, enjoying the world of the upper middle class, finds herself in limbo when she becomes pregnant and complicated with cardiomyopathy. Even though her obstetrician feels therapeutic abortion is justified, the hospital board does not allow it. So Joy has to have a procedure done after seeing an advertisement bill on an electrical pole.
Whether abortion is correct or the individual's right is still ongoing. The combatant stance between the pro-choice and pro-life factions will not abate anytime soon. It becomes uglier when accusations of the earlier abortion clinic actually having eugenics and subtle genocide. Planned Parenthood was not to limit families but to limit the propagation of non-whites worldwide, it seems.
Director: Phyllis Nagy
This is the world we live in, contradictory. Outwardly, everyone seems to portray an image of being pious, virtuous and conforming to the teachings of his religion. He claims that Man's laws must be the ones sanctioned by God and would all out to see to this. In private, however, his moral standards go out of the window. Regardless of what believers say, religions are oppressive against the female gender. The female members are always blamed when the question of vice is discussed, even though it is obvious that we need two to tango. Even Nature is unkind. The female population always become the receptacle for exchanging biological fluids. No matter what the trans people may say, one needs a uterus to carry a pregnancy. Biology does not give in to social demands. One can call a spade a shovel; it still picks up what it is supposed to pick up.
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| Pro-choice protestors in 1972. |
Joy realises that a group of feminists running a well-organised, safe abortion clandestine clinic. She recognises a massive demand for such services. Joy is sucked into the whole set-up. After discovering that the doctor running the clinic was a quack, Joy learned the procedure and started performing termination herself.
The story is based on actual events. A group of ladies got together to help those caught in unwanted pregnancies, rape victims, out-of-wedlock conceptions, and grand multiparity. In their times, they had induced 11,000 over abortions without a single complication. Their work became redundant when the U.S. Supreme Court made the landmark decision in Roe vs Wade in 1973 to rule that the Constitution of the United States generally protects a pregnant individual's liberty to have an abortion.
Discussions on abortions are problematic. On one end, society valued life simultaneously with sexual liberation. Sex creates life no matter how foolproof contraception is. Failure means life without choice, and one has to deal with it. How? Should pro-choice or pro-life prevail. One has to take responsibility for personal choices and not depend on the State to babysit every time. Actions have consequences.
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| Members of the Jane 1972 |
Whether abortion is correct or the individual's right is still ongoing. The combatant stance between the pro-choice and pro-life factions will not abate anytime soon. It becomes uglier when accusations of the earlier abortion clinic actually having eugenics and subtle genocide. Planned Parenthood was not to limit families but to limit the propagation of non-whites worldwide, it seems.
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