4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,

I am sure this movie is very disturbing and I certainly do not encourage anyone to see it(we already know what abortion does), but at the same time, I am glad someone is showing the truth. Fact is, abortion does the same thing legal or illegal, and some abortionists still abuse patients…no yelling about this stuff from the pro choice side..

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/96349.php

Washington Post Profiles Romanian Abortion-Related Film

06 Feb 2008

The Washington Post
on Friday profiled the Romanian film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," in
which a college student undergoes an illegal abortion in communist
Romania in 1987.

According to the Post, the film, which won the Palme d’Or last year at the Cannes Film Festival,
"graphically depicts an abortion and its aftermath" and "less
graphically, but no less troubling" also depicts the student and her
friend being sexually assaulted by the abortion provider. The film
provides U.S. audiences that have "been treated" to the "consoling"
pregnancy-related films "Knocked Up" and "Juno" with an "example of filmmaking that dares to be honest about the high stakes of women’s reproductive lives," the Post reports.

The
film is "by no means an abortion movie" but conveys the characters’
survival in an "oppressive system" that criminalized abortion in an
effort to increase the country’s population, according to the Post.
According to Cristian Mungiu, the film’s writer and director, the film
aims to demonstrate the lack of connection between abortion and
morality in communist Romania. "Lack of moral perspective was one of
the worst things" of the communist regime, Mungiu said. He added that
the "long-term consequences" are evident today and that abortion is the
most widespread form of contraception in Romania (Hornaday, Washington Post, 2/1).

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