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Article: Bearing witness to America's invisible constituency.(Lake of Fire)(Critical essay)
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- Conscience
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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OF THE MANY memorable images in the documentary Lake of Fire, the most telling--to this reviewer, at least--is that of the women seeking abortions who appear with their faces turned away from the camera. Tony Kaye's monumental film takes us past demonstrators into abortion clinics where we hear from these women and their doctors and see these operations.
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Is there any constituency so invisible as those very women without whom all discussion of abortion would be moot? Can there be any meaningful advocacy on behalf of a constituency so profoundly committed to the pretense that it doesn't exist? America's most famous abortion story is ...