Abortion

In 1983 - 10 years after Roe v. Wade - a landmark FRONTLINE documentary, Abortion Clinic, showed the experience of and conflict over abortion like never before on American television. Now, 36 years later, FRONTLINE returns to Pennsylvania to look at both sides of the abortion debate in The Abortion Divide. This film offers a window into the sometimes difficult and deeply personal choices women face with unplanned pregnancy - and examines the steadfast belief of the anti-abortion community that there should be no choice at all.

Fifty years after the Abortion Act was passed, Anne Robinson brings together a group of people with conflicting views on abortion to ask if the law is fit for purpose in 2017.

Panorama reports from America’s Deep South, the frontline in the battle over abortion rights. President Trump has called abortion "the execution of children" and now 12 US states are trying to push through new laws that challenge American women's right to abortion. Alabama’s abortion ban, the most extreme in America, would criminalise abortion providers and prevent even women who have been raped from aborting. At one of the last abortion clinics in Alabama, reporter Hilary Andersson talks to doctors and patients about what the ban would mean to them, and meets campaigners who believe abortion is evil.

An investigation into one of the most divisive issues in US politics. Film-maker Deeyah Khan hears from doctors who face an ever-present threat of violence, even murder, from anti-abortion fanatics, a man convicted of bombing clinics and women who face one of the most difficult decisions of their lives in choosing to have an abortion.

An investigation into one of the most divisive issues in US politics. Film-maker Deeyah Khan hears from doctors who face an ever-present threat of violence, even murder, from anti-abortion fanatics, a man convicted of bombing clinics and women who face one of the most difficult decisions of their lives in choosing to have an abortion.

Exactly 50 years ago, in 1968, the Abortion Act came into force. It was passed in response to the numbers of women dying from unsafe and illegal abortions. The legislation was hugely controversial at the time and abortion continues to be an issue that arouses strong views. In this film, we talk to people on both sides of the debate. We meet women who had backstreet abortions, many sharing their stories for the first time, as well as people whose lives were affected by the passage of the law including doctors, nurses and police officers. Many people opposed the act, often from religious conviction.

Film-maker Poppy Jay meets the Gen Zers leading anti-abortion campaigns. Online, on campuses and on the streets, she finds a movement growing in confidence, profile and money.

This documentary gives women a voice in the choices they've had to make regarding their pregnancies.

Abortion has long been a fault line in American politics. Now those who want to ban it scent a famous victory, with implications for millions.

Examines the complex and nuanced issues around terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks, where there may be a chance of certain impairments or conditions.