In a small New England town a doctor
practices medicine. An OB-GYN, Dr. Wayne
Goldner has delivered over 2,500 babies, and
has been marked because he chooses to
provide legal abortions. Allowing the
filmmakers to follow him for an entire year,
Goldner contributed to making this
documentary serve as a stinging indictment of
the government's inability to protect citizens
doing legitimate work. When first
encountered, Dr. Goldner is fighting a merger
between two local hospitals - one Catholic -
that threatens abortion services in the city of
Manchester. This brings protestors who, up
until then, had seemed content to picket
outside his offices, right to the doorstep of
his home, as well as to the local junior high
school where Wayne teaches a sex education
class. In order to get rid of the protestors,
the school board gets rid of Wayne, banning
him from giving the class at school. As the
film follows his fight to be reinstated, it
becomes apparent that while most of the
town supports abortion rights and Dr. Goldner's work, few want to confront the
right-to-lifers and the controversy they bring
with them.
Directors - Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt
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