Trigger Warning: It’s about abortion and this clip gets graphic.
You still with me? It’s a lot I know, but considering what’s going on out there with the Supreme Court of the United States, I felt this particular movie was entirely too relevant for me not to share. Today’s Movie Clip O’ the Day comes from If These Walls Could Talk because we keep telling ourselves “never again.” We keep saying we’ll “never forget” and yet our absent minded asses keep slipping.
If you’re old like me, you’ll remember when If These Walls Could Talk came out. Abortion was just as controversial then as it is now. It’s never been something we could talk about openly so when this came out I was floored. I remember watching it and thinking how relieved I was to live during a time when a person’s right to choose was protected. I didn’t anticipate seeing the end to that era in my lifetime. I guess complacency got the better of me but then it’s not like the law means a whole hell of a lot these days. All I know is we can’t let the complacency win. Fuck that.
If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
If These Walls Could Talk is a 1996 American television film, broadcast on HBO. It follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion. Each of the three stories takes place in the same house, 22 years apart: 1952, 1974, and 1996. All three segments were co-written by Nancy Savoca. Savoca directed the first and second segment while Cher directed the third. The women's experiences in each vignette are designed to demonstrate the popular views of society on the issue in each of the given decades.