12th and Delaware (2010)

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Directors: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Producers: Sheila Nevins and Sara Bernstein
Country: United States
Award won: Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights
TRT: 80:00

An intersection in Fort Pierce, Florida, provides a microcosm of one of America's most controversial ideological wars. An abortion clinic named A Woman's World sits across the street from the pro-life Pregnancy Care Center. Pregnant teenagers and women often mistake the pro-life center for the abortion clinic, and are patiently and persuasively counseled by its staff, often with deceptive tactics, to keep their pregnancies. Meanwhile, the medical staff of the clinic try to counsel patience to make their own choices and to perform their work under siege; pro-life protesters walk the sidewalk in front of the clinic day and night, hectoring patients, and the physician must arrive and leave from work anonymously, concealed under a sheet, to protect his own life. Turning a non-judgmental lens on both camps, Grady and Ewing use the extraordinary access they gained to practitioners, protestors, and patients to show us a conflict with seemingly no possible resolution.

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