Released in 2018, the Netflix documentary 'Reversing Roe' is especially timely in light of the Supreme Court's new abortion ruling.
filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg could not have forecast that timing. But the chain of events that flowed from it — and which led inexorably to the Supreme Court’sFor one thing, the passing of a liberal justice allowed then-President Trump to nominate a conservative replacement. That immediately reshaped the ideological dynamic of the court. Long-south right-wing goals of overturning certain Supreme Court precedents were now within reach.
“Forty-five years after it revolutionized abortion law in America, the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade is once again at a crossroads,” Netflix explains about the doc, which the streamer says “presents a deeply illuminating look of the state of abortion and women’s rights in America. “The film offers candid and riveting interviews with key figures from both sides of the divide, among them doctors Colleen McNicholas and Curtis Boyd; feminist icon Gloria Steinem; Operation Rescue president Troy Newman; and National Right to Life president Carol Tobias. Intense and unflinching in its commitment to telling the whole story,The film uses interviews and historical footage to chart the lead-up to the Roe decision.
Moreover, revisiting this documentary comes at a time when, now that the Supreme Court has paved the way for widespread abortion bans around the US, Big Tech will increasingly find itself under scrutiny. And not just because of companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook parent Meta offering to reimburse employees for the cost of traveling out-of-state for an abortion.
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