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What might a Post-Roe v. Wade Alabama look like? Pro-Life and Pro-Choice activists describe the landscape in the AL Legislature. Donte Johnson: I’m a current Biomedical Science major at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (class of 2025). I chose this topic due to my interest in medicine and public advocacy. Social policies at the federal level intervenes in the livelihood of the patient with their physician. For nearly 49 years, the constitutional precedent of Roe v. Wade allowed nearly ½ of the American public to decide their willingness to continue pregnancy. However, precedent may not be likely to reach its 50th anniversary with the upcoming Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. If Roe is overturned, nearly 26 states are likely to curtail the right to choose. To examine this new possible reality, my film parter (Katherine Nguyen) and I examined this issue in the state of Alabama. Like the 25 other states, pro-life legislation could become the new law of the land. With the completion of our topic, I feel acquainted and reassured that ethnographic films can assert itself as a vehicle of social policy.
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
UAB Ethnographic Filmmaking
City
Birmingham, AL
Disciplines
Film and Media Studies | Film Production
Production Notes
Produced as part of the UAB Ethnographic Filmmaking class of 2022. All 2022 Ethnographic Films can be found on Vimeo here.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Donte and Nguyen, Katherine, "Decisions" (2022). Ethnographic Films. 187.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/ethnographic/187
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