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Making Contact
"Making Contact" is produced by International Media Project, an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1994, committed to investigative journalism, in-depth critical analysis, the promotion of civic participation and the dissemination of educational material. Its core focus is National Radio Project, the team that creates Making Contact.
Before it was legal in the United States, some doctors would risk arrest to provide women with access to safe abortions. When that wasn’t possible, some sought abortions from unsafe providers, often with deadly consequences. The Supreme Court legalized abortion, in 1973, and the numbers of people dying after having an abortion dropped, but are we now seeing a return to the past? On this edition of Making Contact, what can the time before abortion was legal tell us about the dangers of restricting access to abortion today? We’ll hear a special radio adaption of Motherhood by Choice not Chance, a documentary produced and narrated by Dorothy Fadiman.
Featured speakers/guests:
Reverend Howard Moody, American Baptist Minister; Pastor James Lawson, United Methodist minister; Dr. Connie White, gynecologist; Pat Mitchell, clinic director in Alabama; Dr. Warren Hern, late-term abortion specialist.
Credits:
Host/Producer: George Lavender
Contributing Producer: Dorothy Fadiman
Producers: Andrew Stelzer
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Web Editor: Kwan Booth
Organizational Volunteers: Dan Turner and Barbara Barnett
