Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kenneth Johnson, one of Harvard's anti-choice "Human Rights Advocates," believes that "The Silent Scream" could "clarify certain medical isasues" surrounding abortion. In fact, the film goes to great lengths to confuse the abortion debate. The narrator of the film is a doctor, complete with white coat and stethescope, lending a deceptive air of medical authority to the views he presents. But rather than a sincere exploration of medical issues, "The Silent Scream" is piece of anti-choice propaganda...
...fetal movements shown on the ultrasound are thus not reactions to perceptions of pain, aggression, or "imminent destruction," as the film's-narrator asserts. They are simple avoidance reactions, like the reflex of a knee when the doctor taps it. Contrary to the intentionally misleading implications of the film, there is no "silent scream...
FORSTER TURNS NEXT to Elizabeth Blackwell, the world's first trained, registered women doctor, Black well gave up any ideas of marriage or motherhood in order to pursue her aim of being a doctor--and she insisted on undergoing the same training and receiving the same certification as her male colleagues. Without this, Blackwell realized that women could never gain true equality in the professions--differences in training or background would always be singled out as inferiorities...
...Nina is an Everywoman, crippled by her need to be all women. To her dead sweetheart Gordon she must be a faithful widow. To her widowed father (Tom Aldredge) she must be a doting sister. To her weak husband (James Hazeldine) she must be a mother. To the young doctor (Brian Cox) who secretly sires her son, she must pretend to be just a friend. To her young son Gordon (Patrick Wilcox), she acts like a jealous lover. And to her devoted friend Charlie (Edward Petherbridge), she finally plays the agreeable wife. A reverberant premise; the problem...
...silent scream" of the title comes from a fetus in the womb--shown by an "ultrasound," computer generated picture--whose mouth opens as a doctor conducts probes necessary for an abortion. Presumably, the fetus reacts to perceived or potential pain...