12th And Delaware Essay

Film: 12th and Delaware

12th and Delaware is Documentary of an intersection in Fort Pierce Florida, on one corner there is a Women’s Health Care Center (offers counseling to women who may be considering abortion and urging them to keep the fetus) and on the other corner is a Worlds Women Clinic (this clinic does abortions and other health services). This documentary looks inside both clinics. At the Women’s Health Care Center, pro-life counselors give women a mixture of concerns and disinformation about terminating their pregnancies. The Women’s Health Care Center, the staff struggles to work under the frequent threat of violence that is against them do their practice of abortions. The documentary looks into the protesters who stand out side the Women’s health care center, where they confront patients and staff as they enter and exit the
At the beginning they talk about how the two clinics are across the street from each other, the Women’s Health Care Center purchased the building from a chiropractor in a matter of a small amount of time, so they can stage protest daily against the Women’s World Clinic and provide another path for women seeking abortion, many women mistaken the Women’s Health for the abortion clinic. Anne, who runs the Women Health Clinic, surprised me with her actions during the film. She would give out mix information to the women who think they are in the right building and are preparing for an abortion. Widline a fifteen years old who was 10 weeks pregnant came in and she was not financially or emotionally ready for a baby and Brittney who was nineteen years old who is seven week pregnant and was ready to abort her pregnancy (she had one once before). Why both women was in the office, Anne would run in and out whispering to the other staff members in the office “she abortion-minded”, “Let’s get her in for an ultrasound (at times they would put messages on the ultrasound print out), and see if we can get a heartbeat.” While the