Documentary Review: Overturning Roe Vs. Wade

There is probably no more important documentary to watch right now. 

The story begins in a present day courthouse.  A woman is arguing vehemently about what motherhood has meant for her.  How beautiful the experience was for her, how incredible it made her feel. 

Here in the Texas House of representatives, it seems like the woman, will side with the men who hate the idea of abortions based specifically on religious grounds, and a graphic rhetoric for some late term abortions.

However in a turn of events, despite her strong feelings on motherhood, she insists that she does not believe that her situation needs to be the same as every other woman's. 

From there, the documentary takes off and takes us down the rabbit hole of the most divisive, and least spoken about issue today.

Historians, religious leaders, activists from both sides, and everyday people tell their versions of a law that is most certainly in jeopardy, that according to economists, may have helped solve the crime epidemic of the 1990's.


Incredibly profound observations from the feminist movement in the seventies.

It talks about how in the early stages of the issue, that Republicans thought that the Government had no vested interest in telling a woman what to do with their pregnancy.  They go on to explain as to why their politics would go on to change.

After about an hour we get to the essential argument of Roe Vs. Wade. 

While it gets to the crux of the argument it becomes clear as to why a conservative court would have a 7-2 decision in favor of legalizing abortion.  It is argued that the state should be interfering less in people's lives, that the state has no interest in controlling the population.

From there the story changes to the perspective of the religious right, it shows the anger of some people who became so filled with rage that they would go on to commit heinous crimes.

The story can be extremely personal, as a woman talks about caring a fetus to term that was going to be born without arms and legs, to the graphic imagery and language of "partial-birth"abortions, but through it all it manages to keep a professionalism through the story to tell it as objectively as possible.

The story comes together fully, with amazing footage and interviews that come across as unabashedly honest.  It tells as whole a story as you could hope for in a little over an hour and thirty minutes.

If you want to understand the issue of why the Supreme Court is so important today, please do yourself a favor and watch this film.