Review of After Tiller (2013) by Mike C — 28 Nov 2014

Heavy. Real heavy. Take perhaps the most divisive topic in America and focus on the worst part of it. Not an overly pleasant documentary but an important one worth watching.

I try to be educated on important matters and because this is such a hot-button social/political issue, I try to be educated on abortion. In doing so, I once again take more of a liberal stand than most.

First off, these are not monsters. Tiller was not a monster. You can disagree with what he did, but do those he served, he was more or less a hero. And to do what he did with so much on the line - ultimately his life - makes him even more so.

So that's all I ask on this issue an all others: what is the science? what is the human side? what is the social side? When you start putting these things together, I see only one logical conclusion. It is not always a pleasant conclusion in these situations or in others, but pleasant is not always part of the contract.

I just think, in the least, there should be actual conversations about these things. Not protesting at rock concerts with graphic images (like I saw in Wichita years ago), not protesting outside a middle school with graphic images (like is shown in this docu), not setting up hotlines that provide misinformation to women in need. It's always been my take that the side that relies on misinformation, emotion, and shock is probably the weaker side. If you have the truth in your pocket, you don't need those things.

My views did not change watching this. I think abortions are still a terribly private matter and terribly difficult decisions. And it's not always just women being irresponsible. It's so, so, so much more. But as long as one side can ignorantly repeat incorrect facts, I guess we'll always have that debate.