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MAN ON MEGAPHONE: You have no concept of God!
Shame on you! Shame on you!
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DEEYAH KHAN: If you want an abortion in the state of Alabama,
this is what you'll have to face.
You killed your baby, you shameful brat!
Hey, don't be a whore, don't be a slut!
Don't be a ho!
Wicked, nasty, disgusting whore!
Sick freak! Wicked!
People should be comforted through this,
and not dammed and hated.
All the judgement that society puts on it,
it's hard not to feel... guilty in a way about it.
I am asking Congress to pass legislation
finally banning the late-term abortion of babies.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Donald Trump is the most anti-abortion president in years.
Do you believe in punishment for abortion? Yes or no?
There has to be some form of punishment.
Now, a vicious political fight for control of the Supreme Court
could see abortion being banned entirely
for millions of women across America.
That's what we're going to do, we're gonna fill the seat.
That's a good idea.
Performing abortions in America can get you murdered.
I'm coming face to face with people convicted
of anti-abortion terrorism...
I knew that I would be coming against these abortion chambers
with destructive force. I knew that I would destroy them.
..and the anti-abortion campaigners who celebrate these attacks.
Oh, my God!
When they bomb an abortion clinic, or burn an abortion clinic,
I think the army of God has done a marvellous job.
I'm meeting the medical staff
who risk their lives to provide abortions...
This building's been bombed, it's been flooded.
..and the women who face the harshest choices of their lives.
It's living, it's living. It's kicking.
SHE SOBS
The fight over abortion has become a fight for the future of America.
Ma'am, this doctor here is an abortionist,
don't you deserve better?
It's a war on children.
It's a war on a human being in the womb.
I know that, with this upcoming election,
that's what we have at stake. It's gonna hurt women.
This is... I mean, this is the battle.
The soul of the country, right?
Who's Charlotte?
Charlotte was my daughter.
Um, I was pregnant with her, beginning in 2012.
Um...
Unfortunately, we didn't get to give birth to her,
to the point where I got to see her or hold her.
But she's my daughter.
When Trinity was 18 weeks pregnant,
a routine scan found her foetus had three lethal medical conditions.
She was told the best option was to have an abortion
to avoid the baby suffering.
"Incompatible with life", that phrase.
That phrase will haunt you, and haunts me,
you know, in the depths of my nightmares.
You're just taken right back into that room,
right back into that moment,
where someone tells you that your baby's gonna die.
They put the needle through your belly,
into your uterus, and into the baby's heart.
That was the moment that you know...
..that she's going.
It sounds crazy and it sounds silly, but I just...
I wanted to see it beat for the last time.
And I wanted to be there and have her know that I was...
..watching her as we said goodbye.
It just seemed so surreal.
I'm just so lost. I just don't know, do I get to...
do I get to feel like I lost a baby?
Because I felt like, in some way, I didn't get...
I didn't deserve...
I didn't deserve be sad.
You know, through a lot of therapy and a lot of time,
I realised that, um,
I feel that way because of what society's made me feel.
I know that other people are forced to come out of a clinic
and have people yell at them and call them murderers
and tell them that they've murdered their baby
and call them horrible names and wave...
signs in front of them and yell at them,
and I just can't even imagine what I would have done.
I can't imagine what my husband would have done at that moment
if we would have been wheeled out and somebody would have been
standing there in front of us, picketing us.
This is a country where you can be vilified and stigmatised
for having an abortion.
For decades, the Supreme Court
has protected the right of a woman to choose,
with the landmark decision Roe vs Wade.
But the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
has led to a battle for control of the Supreme Court.
That's what we're going to do, we're gonna fill the seat.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
CROWD: Fill the seat, fill the seat! That's a good idea.
These legal struggles could have far-reaching consequences
for American women.
It may even mean abortion is one day banned
across much of America.
'I'm heading for a front line in the war on abortion.
'Only three clinics regularly provide abortions
'in the whole of Alabama.'
Patients who arrive at Alabama Women's Centre in Huntsville
have to be shielded by these people,
known as clinic defenders,
because every day, just yards from the clinic entrance,
are anti-abortion protesters.
Nasty whore!
Shame on you, you wicked devil! Baby murderer!
You're worse than Jeffrey Dahmer, you sick freak!
The clinic defenders are all volunteers
who work here because they believe in the right of women to choose.
Yeah, I'm talking to you, shame on you!
You deserve to be stoned.
Wicked!
Vile, disgusting!
Disgusting.
Walking around naked, showing off your thighs and your legs,
nasty whore.
I pray that every woman that opens up her nasty,
disgusting, diseased vagina
to have a baby ripped out of their womb,
I pray that they bleed to death.
This is it, this is the life at the clinic.
This is an everyday clearance. Welcome to Alabama.
Having an abortion can be stressful and difficult,
and the staff say the protesters make things much worse.
Someone coming into something like this for the first time,
it can be scary.
And they come in a lot of time flustered, angry, crying.
This is Morgan.
She has decided to have an abortion
because she has no financial means to bring up a child.
How are you feeling? Nervous.
I knew immediately, um, what I was going to do,
but it doesn't make it any easier, just thinking about it and...
..all the judgement that society puts on it and everything, so...
it's gonna weigh on my...
..on my life for a really long time, just thinking about it.
The vast majority of patients who come here
are less than ten weeks pregnant,
and they're given a pill which induces a miscarriage.
Before we give you the first dose of medicine,
we always like to be sure that you're absolutely certain
that this is what you wanna do.
This is the one that you're gonna swallow.
But Morgan has only just found out she's 15 weeks pregnant,
so she'll be undergoing the procedure
used for later-term patients.
She has been given medicine to relax her and dilate her cervix.
But because of the stress and nerves,
it's not taking effect.
MORGAN SOBS
You're doing good, you're doing good. Small breaths.
Small, deep breaths.
Dr Yashica Robinson is the supervising doctor.
Hi.
You'll feel a lot of pressure, OK?
The first thing that you're gonna feel is just cold, so...
MORGAN CRIES
Tell me what's going on, are you feeling pain right now?
What's going on?
You're scared?
Didn't I tell you I was gonna take really good care of you?
OK, well, scoot down one more time.
Once the medicine starts to work, it only takes around five minutes
for Dr Robinson to remove the contents of the uterus.
You have only about 60 seconds and we're finished, OK?
You have about ten seconds and we're finished.
I told you, it was gonna be over before you knew it.
And we're done.
How are you doing? It was better than I expected.
I think that the worst part was just waiting and anticipating.
I know when I came in to talk to you the first time,
you said you was really nervous and you were worried.
And when I came back in, you were really worried.
But you did very well.
If you have any concerns after you leave,
I want you to call us, OK? All right.
Dr Robinson is medical director of the clinic,
in charge of everything that goes on here,
and her partner, Dalton, owns it.
This is one of the few abortion clinics in the whole of America
which is owned and run by people of colour.
'I am a proud abortion provider.
'I'm unapologetic about the care that I provide for my patients.'
I can understand where these women are coming from,
because I'm interacting with them on a daily basis,
and I understand the circumstances
that go into them making these decisions.
For some women who come here,
this is one of the worst days of their lives.
Sarana has recently had her 20-week scan.
She has been told her foetus has a series of major medical disorders
and it's very probable it won't survive.
Oh, wow. Um...
Just...
Do you have other children?
He was looking forward to being a big brother?
SARANA SOBS
She's named her unborn son Andre.
To save Andre any suffering, she decides to have the abortion.
A counsellor is on hand to comfort her.
The procedure itself takes 20 minutes...
and the staff help her to her car.
Dr Robinson's clinic mostly serves the rural, poor
and African-American communities of Alabama.
The work we are going through right now,
our current economic situation,
people are already struggling just to put food on the table.
You see people waiting in long lines just to get food from food banks.
You know, we are almost like social workers,
social service providers for these patients,
because their needs are so great.
One day, Alex comes into the clinic.
She's in a same-sex relationship and already has a young daughter.
She tells me she's decided to have an abortion
because she was attacked and raped just outside her apartment
by two men she didn't know.
Because of the lack of available clinics,
Alex has been forced to drive ten hours to get here.
Although she can barely afford it,
she's had to stay in a nearby motel.
It is the hardest decision, I think,
that I have ever had to make in my life.
Um, hey, had I just had sex with two guys,
I would be like, "OK, of course."
But I don't know those people, I don't know what type of diseases,
I don't know anything of them.
And I know that I have been through so much mentally
that I would always look at that baby
and say this baby was not made in love.
I'd think back to the pressure
that they were applying to my anus and my vagina.
That's what I think back to.
And I know... I know I am forgiven.
It was the most hurtful thing.
Um, so, this is my uterus, I am my own woman,
and this is what's best for me.
It's the right thing to do.
Have you ever, ever considered
the possibility of keeping this baby?
Every second since I've been here.
I am not thinking, but it's in the back of my mind,
it's living, it's living, it's kicking.
I don't think I wanna talk any more.
SHE SOBS
My daughter loves me.
Jesus loves me.
And that's enough for me.
And that's enough for any of the women
that are going to watch this.
The protests that dog Dr Robinson outside the abortion clinic
follow her wherever she does her work.
Ten minutes away, she also runs this maternity and baby centre.
She's an obstetrician and gynaecologist,
providing the full range of medical care for mother and child...
Let's put your car seat here.
..including bringing babies into the world.
Yes, I was the first one to hold you!
But even here, she is targeted by protesters.
Pregnant patients who arrive at her centre for a scan,
or even to give birth, are harassed.
Ma'am, this doctor here is an abortionist,
don't you deserve better?
Yashica Robinson murders babies in the womb,
an average of 50 a week, ma'am.
Dead or alive, Yashica Robinson does not care.
Dead or alive.
Don't you deserve better than Dr Death?
Think about it, Dr Death here, think about it.
This is Carol Henderson, the wife of the local reverend
who organises all the protests here.
There's never a reason for a woman to have to have an abortion.
If they obeyed God's commandments and not fornicate,
they wouldn't get pregnant, would they?
Staff inside the clinic have to be continually vigilant.
When the protesters show up,
and sometimes if there's nobody out there,
they'll block the driveway,
so we have our OB patients coming in,
sometimes they're pretty distraught by the time they get in the door,
they're crying because they say that the driveway was blocked,
they couldn't come down the driveway,
or that, you know, somebody touched 'em
or got really close to 'em, and it kind of shakes 'em up.
The stress that they are putting on these pregnant patients
who are trying to just have a healthy pregnancy
is... it's just mind-blowing.
Do you not feel it's disrespectful of the women that are going in here
who just want to have their child, who are coming...?
That's not disrespectful.
Telling them the truth and informing them,
don't we all want to be informed before we do something?
The protesters tell me they once persuaded a woman
not to have an abortion.
And this woman is now a fellow campaigner.
She is so thankful, she is so thankful.
Can I meet her? Her fourth child was a little girl.
She had three boys, and now she has a little girl,
and she's thankful. No, she doesn't want to meet you.
Why not? Why would she want to?
So she can tell her story.
She doesn't want to tell you her story, thank you.
Why not?
God's gonna cut out your disgusting tongue like fatback, it's gonna fry.
You, that so callously kill your children,
are gonna face God.
Shame on you, you wicked devil, baby murderer!
God cares about that baby.
Back at the abortion clinic,
Daniel and Mary are a newly married couple
and are regular protesters.
These are Satanist and witches
that delight in the shedding of innocent blood,
it's part of their religion.
You seem to be obsessed with them! I don't look for whores,
especially not old nasty whores like you,
so I wouldn't worry about you, I wouldn't worry about that.
A regular target of their abuse is clinic defender Josephine.
Why do you do this? Why put up with this?
Why put yourself through it?
I might cry.
For the women that come here
that don't deserve to be treated that way.
Somebody needs to be here for them and to let them know, it's OK.
You have the right to make this decision.
You know, we all need support sometimes.
I persuade Daniel and Mary to sit down with me to talk.
Well, if they already know they're a whore,
then they're gonna say, "He told me the truth."
We're trying to save the baby. These parents should be ashamed.
They should be ashamed of what they're going to do.
By God's law, they should be stoned to death at the edge of the city.
Whoever sheds blood, God's gonna kill you.
You see all these parents going on in,
and you see these Satanists and witches
working in the parking lot, and it's very depressing.
Time is short!
When I first started going I was a lot more, like, crying,
like, there's never anything positive
about going out there, it's miserable.
It's a sacrifice, obeying God. It's not something pleasant at all.
The Bible says it's peace that surpasses understanding.
And I believe that, it's unexplainable.
Yes, I... When I...
In general, yes.
Well, I mean, I didn't really want to talk to you at all.
I submit to him because the Bible tells wives
to submit to their husbands and obey their husbands,
so I obey him.
MARY LAUGHS
Did you really? Yeah.
Rejects from wherever...
Mary tells me she had a very unhappy life before she found God.
There was abuse in my family, pretty severe.
So the day I was born again,
when I asked Jesus to come into my heart,
um, I was just flooded with love, you know.
I had never known what that felt like,
the Father's love for me.
I have to do it because I know that God wants me to do it.
We'll see on judgement day which works.
I mean, this is how we typically deal with people,
we don't typically shout at people. SHE LAUGHS
That's just a crisis situation
where little children are about to be tortured to death.
One day, a group of evangelical street preachers
arrives from out of state to join the usual gang.
You are an abomination.
Not your sin, you.
That's where you kill your babies.
Hey, don't be a whore! Don't be a slut!
Don't be a ho. You murdered your baby.
Do it the way God says and you don't have to murder your baby.
They shout racially charged abuse at the Black patients.
Black lives don't really matter in this building.
The worst place for a Black person is in the vagina of Shaniqua.
They also try to provoke the clinic defenders.
We have nothing nice to say to you!
You are worse than the ones that are molesting the children.
You, that's what God thinks of you! That's what God thinks of you!
That's what God thinks of you,
you're worse than the child molesters.
You're worse than the ones who stick pillows into babies.
You're worse than ones that finger babies.
You're worse than ones that lick vaginas of little babies.
You kill babies!
They start targeting me.
You are one dumb female Muslim.
If we were out here enforcing Sharia law,
we'd take you round the corner and rape you,
if we were good Muslims.
If we were a good Muslim group,
we'd take you and your immodest little pants there
around the corner and we'd have our way with you.
You wicked, paedophile-approving Muslim.
That's what you are.
We got Jihad Jane right out here.
Your lifestyle, dressing like a whore...
..provokes people to have dirty sex.
I've received abuse like this so many times in my work,
I thought I was used to it. Jihadist Islamic woman...
But after weeks of filming here, I briefly loose my cool.
Step back, step back. This is a free country.
Get out... We're not in Iraq.
So you think me wearing these jeans...
You're provoking rape.
I wouldn't be surprised if you get raped tonight,
wearing those jeans, walking down the street.
Have some shame, have some shame. All right, you talk...
We talk, you listen.
We're not giving women permission to speak right now,
so be quiet, be quiet.
Oh, just a little nipple, oh, just a little sexy...
Although I've become caught up in the angry exchanges,
I do want to understand what these protesters believe in,
so I try to get them to talk to me.
No, he's preaching. No, seriously...
He's preaching. Ask him.
Abortion is murder. How's that? Is that the gist of it?
That's why we're here, why we're on the sidewalk.
And so what should happen? Stop murdering babies.
And he tells me he thinks President Trump is on his side.
He will do it.
We will get people within the Supreme Court,
and on this second term, we will actually change Roe v Wade.
He's going through the court system. That's really what's gonna happen.
He's put more federal judges that are conservative in America
that are surpassed his life.
So, yes, Roe v Wade will be overturned.
True Christianity will always be around,
and I do represent it,
and you'll be surprised how many people like me
exist in our beloved country, America.
MAN ON MEGAPHONE: Come to our land so that you may bless us again,
and understand that if we don't turn to you and repent...
There's a war on abortion in Trump's America.
Every day, protesters hurl abuse at patients entering this clinic
and many more across the country.
Don't go into that wicked place, they torture children to death!
Since 2014, reports of hate mail,
obstruction and disruption of clinics
have increased 24 times,
and violence, including invasion, death threats and assault,
has increased 17 times.
This is America, this is the home of the free,
the land of the free, the home of the brave.
I've been filming with Dr Yashica Robinson
and her partner, Dalton.
They run the Alabama Women's Centre,
one of the few abortion clinics left in the state.
Harassment has become a part of their working life.
I mean, I take the precautions that I can
to make sure that I feel safe and that my family feels safe.
When I pull up to the hospital at night,
I make sure that I park in the front of the hospital
in a well-lit place.
I never park on the back side of the hospital.
I check my surroundings before I step out of my vehicle.
I also know that it's important that I'm outspoken,
uh, about what is going on.
When there's nobody that's willing to speak up,
it makes it very difficult to fight for what we know our patients need.
I can't do that and hide my face.
Two decades ago,
there were over 20 abortion clinics in Alabama.
Now, there are just three, and they're under siege.
It's not just the protesters on their doorstep.
The war on abortion is also being waged
to the state legislators and the courts.
Alabama clinics have to operate under tight restrictions.
Patients have to attend at least two appointments,
spaced out by 48 hours, before the abortion can go ahead.
Hello, I'm Dr Robinson.
I understand you plan to do the pill, is that correct?
Because she's early in pregnancy,
Misty can and take a pill which will induce a miscarriage.
But the restrictions have made things much more difficult for her.
I really appreciate it. You are so welcome.
It's three appointments for me to come here.
They have to be spaced out.
They have to be at least 48 hours apart,
you have to do all these things,
so we just make it ridiculously difficult.
And they're continuing to try and do that more.
Another regulation is that the patient must undergo an ultrasound
and be offered the option of seeing what the foetus looks like.
The men who make these rules,
they add an extra ultrasound so that you have to hear a heartbeat.
So that you have to think about that part of it, and you can't...
..you can't make your decisions based on emotion.
You have to make your decisions based off that.
They make it more difficult, so you won't do it.
They take all your choices,
they want to play on your heartstrings.
Another issue is the increasing costs of an abortion
for people living on the breadline.
Alex, who had earlier shared with me that she had been raped,
has left the pregnancy until its 20th week.
Why did you wait so long?
I honestly didn't think I would have funding,
and we were saving so much money to do it.
You didn't have the money for the abortion? No.
In the end, she was one of the lucky ones.
A private pro-choice organisation
agreed to pay her expenses for the operation.
But now, she has another trial to face.
Because her trip is over a weekend, the delay imposed by the law
means she has to wait almost a week in Huntsville
before the abortion can go ahead.
This is what's really hurting me about this situation,
being here in Huntsville with this, because it's been a week.
And so I'm dealing with this a week later.
That's hateful. That's the hate to me.
So... I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.
I think patients like that,
they highlight everything that's wrong with our system.
There are very few providers who can provide the care.
When women can't access care in a timely manner,
they're pushed to later in the pregnancy.
She highlights how harmful, um, restrictions on abortion care,
like waiting periods, how harmful that can be to patients.
Because after she has already driven so far,
she has to turn around and wait.
I mean, she highlights everything that's wrong with this.
You will feel a little sting.
'Patients like that, you never forget.'
There is no other medical specialist that have legislators
constantly challenging the services they provide to their patients
and how they do it, but I face that,
because I choose to provide this full spectrum of care,
including abortion care.
Across the whole of America,
the physical threat to abortion providers is real.
Since 1977, there have been 11 murders,
26 attempted murders,
42 bombings, 189 arsons
and thousands of other lesser crimes directed at abortion providers.
I've come to Kansas to visit a clinic
that's suffered brutal violence over the years.
It's easy to find the Trust Women centre in Wichita
because of the giant anti-abortion van,
and, once again, the protesters hanging around outside.
So, what are you doing here today?
What are we... We're saving lives out here.
We are trying to convince women that they don't have to kill their child,
And what is happening inside
is the violence that you see on the side of the truck.
That's the Truth Truck, by the way. We call that the Truth Truck.
In the war on abortion, this clinic may be its ground zero.
Hi. Hi, how are you? I'm Julie.
Julie Burkhart and her staff are under perhaps the greatest risk
of any clinic workers in America.
There are no windows in this building.
That's correct.
We have just a few windows, but they're high up.
And the reason for that is if there's ever a sniper...
..we would be able to keep staff a little safer.
'This building's been bombed.'
It's been flooded.
There's one death threat that still really...
I think because it was so graphic.
Following me, dragging me out of my car
and beating me to a bloody pulp.
We live and breathe this every day, you know, to help other people.
Someone wants to drag you out of your car
and beat you to a bloody pulp is, like...
And you're a Christian. How could you love someone?
How could you say that to someone? It's just...
Yeah.
How? Like, how do you think that is OK?
I'm not gonna live in fear.
I mean, I hope no-one murders me, because, um...
..I think I could have a long life.
It, you know, makes me want to do it more, it gives me that...
It gives me my power back.
Everyone here is haunted by the memory of an atrocity.
The clinic was founded by Dr George Tiller.
For decades, he was the premier hate figure of the anti-abortion movement
because he provided abortions to women late in pregnancy.
Dr Tiller - he was my boss, he was my mentor.
He just really wanted people to be able to live their best lives.
In 1991, thousands of protesters
staged sit-ins for six weeks outside the clinic.
In 1993, he was shot and wounded
by an anti-abortion extremist, Shelley Shannon.
But he was soon back at work.
The pressure was intensifying.
My office has been blown up.
1993, I survived an assassination attempt.
National television ran angry debates and opinion pieces
further increasing awareness of Dr Tiller.
NEWSCASTER: This man, Dr George Tiller,
known as "Tiller the baby killer",
is performing late term abortions
without defining the specific medical reasons why.
Dr George Tiller, who is one of the few doctors in the United States
who performs the Hitlerian procedure known as a partial birth abortion...
Tiller has killed thousands - thousands -
of late-term foetuses without explanation.
No question, Dr Tiller has blood on his hands.
"Tiller the killer" is...
It's "Tiller the baby killer", which is what he is known by...
Oh, "Tiller the baby killer". He is known by that for certain groups...
Am I not supposed to report that?
We knew he drove an armoured vehicle,
had a bullet-proof vest.
You know, just, the walls were kind of closing in.
In 2009, they finally got him.
Dr Tiller was shot dead at his church by an extremist
called Scott Roeder.
At his trial, Roeder defended his actions.
I, uh...
..I did what I thought was needed to be done
to protect the children. I... I shot him.
Did Dr Tiller drop to the floor instantly?
Two or three seconds later, yes, he did.
The lives of those children were in imminent danger
if someone did not stop George Tiller.
He was going to continue, as he had done
for 36 years prior to that time.
He was sentenced to life for first-degree murder.
At first, the clinic was shut down.
But then Julie took the decision to reopen
and carry on Dr Tiller's work.
If I don't stand back up and other people don't stand back up
and push against these fanatics,
then they will take us over.
SIGHS
Hi, it's nice to meet you.
It's nice to meet you too. Come on in, it's raining.
You're Jennifer, right? I am.
Jennifer McCoy has spent years protesting outside Julie's clinic.
All right, bye-bye. Good.
We're gonna take my car right there.
So you never skip a Friday? No. Uh-uh.
Why not? Um, because...
..you miss an opportunity to help somebody out.
Um, I've been outside this place a good 25 years.
SHE CHUCKLES
I call it the mill, because I feel like that's what it is.
It's a kill mill.
And I've known Julie for as long as I've been out there.
I'm fairly certain she dabbles in the Satanic world,
or at least Wiccans.
Can I offer you some information?
In the 1990s, Jennifer spent 30 months in prison
after being convicted of conspiracy to commit arson
against two abortion clinics in Virginia.
Wrote the wrong time down...
She says she campaigns legally now,
spending every Friday outside Julie's clinic.
'Have you spoken to Jennifer?'
No. I mean, she's yelled at me.
That's as far as our conversations have gone!
'She's been a fixture.'
You know. So, yeah. She's one of the names we know.
Jennifer tells me she became a campaigner
because she was forced to have an abortion against her will
when she was younger.
Watching the devastation of somebody else's soul...
and knowing what they'll go through
after they go through this gate, when they come out...
it honestly wears on people, if you care about other people.
So many lives, so many souls are ruined
and hurt and broken, sometimes beyond repair.
I do feel like this is where God wants me to be.
This is what He wants me to do.
Scott Roeder, the man who murdered Dr Tiller,
has links with a shadowy anti-abortion network
called the Army of God.
Often when people carry out attacks on clinics,
they claim they are doing it in the name of the Army of God.
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Since the early 1980s,
many bombings, arson and acid attacks on clinics,
as well as the murder of at least three abortion doctors,
have been carried out by domestic terrorists
using the name the Army of God.
NEWSCASTER: Two bombs exploded last month
at an Atlanta clinic where abortions are performed.
Oh, my God!
A Chicago area man who federal investigators say
pledged allegiance to the domestic terror group called Army of God
now facing charges connected with a threat
to burn down a local abortion clinic.
In 2018, Luke Wiersma was arrested
after planning to bomb and burn a number of Chicago abortion clinics.
They say he is a self-professed member of the Army of God
that federal agents consider to be
a Christian domestic terror organisation.
He was imprisoned for a year and a half.
The Army of God's website
openly celebrates the murder of abortion doctors
and praises the killers.
'I'm heading to Virginia to meet the man who runs the website.'
Donald Spitz is an ordained Pentecostal minister.
He tells me that the Army of God is just a name
which people use when they carry out their actions.
The Army of God is a moniker
that people use
when they bomb an abortion clinic or burn an abortion clinic
or take action against the abortionists.
Sometimes, they associate an Army of God,
the name Army of God, with their action.
I've been accused of being a spokesperson for the Army of God,
or being the head of the Army of God,
but that's not so.
The Army of God is...
We're not an organisation, it's not like you get a membership.
The Army of God is...
..is people that want to save unborn children
that use force, or support the use of force,
you know, to stop it.
There's many abortionists have quit because of the Army of God.
He shows me the Army of God website,
which lists prisoners who have carried out violent actions
as prisoners of Christ.
The first person on the list is Paul Hill. Paul Hill...
shot an abortionist and his bodyguard,
and the wife of the bodyguard, but she survived.
They put Paul Hill to death. I was there, we were best friends.
I was his spiritual adviser,
I was with him the last two weeks of his life, every day.
It was a wonderful time together.
The website has a number of pages on Dr Tiller.
It compares him to the architects of the Nazi Holocaust
and appraises Shelley Shannon, who attacked Dr Tiller in 1993.
She shot Dr Killer in the arms.
He was back the next day.
He should have taken that as a warning and quit.
And because he didn't quit,
then God sent Scott Roeder to finish it off.
The website calls Scott Roeder an American hero.
A close associate of Spitz is John Brockhoeft.
He spent seven years in prison for a string of arson and bomb attacks
on clinics in Cincinnati in the 1980s.
He also agrees to meet me.
I knew that I would be coming against these targets,
these abortion chambers, with destructive force.
I knew that I would destroy them, either by arson or bombing.
People in our movement call it murder, say abortion is murder,
but when the government is participating in it,
then...
it's a war crime and a crime against humanity.
We have body counts, we have bombings.
We have soldiers.
We have war criminals and death.
So...
those who are attuned into these things realise that this is war.
The Lord is gonna restore his people to power.
We're gonna win this war.
What if you're wrong?
I know I'm not wrong.
But what if you are on the wrong side of this?
It's inconceivable. It's inconceivable.
Sure I am. Obviously, I'm very passionate about it
and willing to die for it.
What motivated me? Shame.
I was ashamed for not doing it.
Before I set those fires,
I couldn't look in the mirror
and hold eye contact with myself for a very long time.
But after I set those fires,
I could look myself in the mirror for... indefinitely.
What does shame feel like?
It's like not liking somebody.
Except the one you... uh, dislike is yourself.
It's... like I'm in the Twilight Zone
and I can't get out, I can't find an exit.
I'm too old for that stuff now. I have all these health problems.
Yeah. Every day, I'm remorseful.
Because babies are being killed, and I'm not...
and my response is not proportionate to the...
enormity and magnitude of the evil
and the urgency and level of desperation.
Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016,
bomb threats, invasions and assaults on staff at abortion clinics
have all escalated.
Nearly half of all abortion providers
have reported severe violence, threat of violence
or severe harassment.
Since the Trump-Pence administration,
I've seen a increase in, like, harassment,
I feel like the protesters feel more empowered.
I've seen more anti-abortion legislation being pushed forward.
With the Trump administration, things have gotten worse for women.
I'd like to say this - there's been a...
a rise in interest from very young people,
people in their... young 20s, high teens.
There's been, like, a new wave of people,
and some have even taken action, so that's good.
MAN ON MEGAPHONE: Turn from them
and put our trust in the one that can help us in a time
when we feel pressured or we feel...
It's January 2020,
the March For Life rally in Washington DC.
No previous president
has ever personally attended this annual gathering
of anti-abortion protesters.
But Donald Trump is about to change that.
It is my profound honour to be the first president in history
to attend the March For Life.
CHEERING
We're here for a very simple reason -
to defend the right of every child, born and unborn,
to fulfil their God-given potential.
CHEERING
Donald Trump says he is opposed to abortion
unless it's to save the mother's life
or in cases of rape or incest.
In his time in office,
he's restricted funds for organisations that provide abortion
and placed conservative judges on the Supreme Court.
And we will win, because we know how to win.
CHEERING
Abortion is a key issue in American political life,
and protesters on the March For Life rally are energised by it.
A physician or a doctor whose job is to help PROLONG someone's life -
that's a doctor or a physician's job.
It's a human life.
They should deserve all the rights and privileges,
even though they've not yet come to full term.
I just feel that people who aren't able to stick up for themselves
should have someone to represent them.
I believe thou shalt not kill, OK? Thank you.
I meet up with Jennifer McCoy again -
she's a protester I had met in Kansas -
and her friends, Catherine Ramey and Joan Bell.
They're all long-term anti-abortion activists.
And I'm a pacifist, so I would never do anything.
I use direct force. I have disarmed murder weapons.
I have cut the cords and ripped them out of abortion machines
and cut the wires from the machines so they couldn't do abortions.
I believe in that. Non-violent direct force,
that's what I personally believe in.
While filming in the Alabama Women's Centre,
I had met women who said they had been raped, such as Alex,
and staff told me of distressing cases of incest.
Well, we had a little girl come in here once,
she was 11 years old. She had got raped by her mum's boyfriend.
And I just knew that that little girl couldn't go through this.
She's not even developed yet.
Her little body was so fragile.
So it... it wasn't right.
I asked the protesters about these kind of cases.
Is abortion ever OK? No, never.
Never? Never. Never.
So, incest, rape? No, of course not. No.
"Of course not"? Why should a child be punished?
Why should the baby get the death penalty?
She can give her baby up for adoption.
But that's a forced pregnancy.
You're forcing a woman to endure pregnancy.
We all go through circumstances in life
where we are forced to endure something awful.
But the 12-year-old girl who has been raped, you're forcing her
to go through a pregnancy - she's a human being too.
We don't want her to cooperate with a murder.
Abortion betrays her humanity.
We ought not to decide
that everybody can do completely what they want to do.
So why not just leave it up to the individuals to make that decision?
I'd like to get out there and start getting signatures.
That's what I'd like.
At the last election, those who voted for Donald Trump
included eight out of ten white evangelicals.
I've come back to Alabama to talk to a man
who is both an ordained minister
and part of the Republican electoral effort.
Good to see you.
The Reverend James Henderson and his wife, Carol,
are the organisers of the protest outside the Alabama Women's Center.
We're here for the public to see
that people do care and people are out here,
and influencing public opinion is important,
and with that help,
we have seen four abortion clinics in Huntsville close.
We were particularly proud to get Planned Parenthood out of town.
He was a Trump delegate for the 2016 election
and says he met him at a campaign rally.
I'm confident that he will exert pressure
to make abortion totally illegal once and for all in Alabama.
Later, at his home, I asked the Reverend Henderson
why he supports Donald Trump when so many allegations
of un-Christian scandals have surrounded him.
Well, if you look at biblical examples,
take King David, for instance - he was not really such a nice guy.
Uh... adultery...
To me, that's a good analogy.
God can use people who have...
attributes that we might not... uh... really care for,
but if they have the strength
and are willing to take a stand on certain issues,
and Donald Trump has certainly done that with abortion.
A lot of basic values that a lot of us believe in.
I felt he was the one that... he was the Lord's choice.
And I still do.
State Senator Jen Jordan of Georgia
is a passionate critic of Republican policies on abortion.
But no matter my faith, my beliefs, my losses,
I have never, ever strayed from the basic principle
that each woman...
each woman must be able to make her decisions
in consultation with her god and her family.
I think that this is about mobilising
a part of the base,
evangelicals that are opposed to abortion,
and this is their number one issue.
How do you do get them to come back out and vote?
How do you get their support? How do you know energise them,
especially when we have
such a morally bankrupt president?
Well, you say it's OK by saying,
"But... but... we were able to get abortion outlawed".
And, really kind of the political...
the political deal-making that's happening,
and it's happening, you know...
..you know, off the backs of women.
All of it comes from a very deep place of distrust of women.
You know, I hate to say, but it's kind of the whole idea of, um...
Eve's original sin, right?
One of the big dividing lines of the upcoming election
is the practice of late-term abortions.
For the past four years,
Donald Trump has falsely accused his Democrat rivals
of advocating abortion even up to the point of birth.
What Hillary is saying, in the ninth month,
you can take the baby and rip the baby
out of the womb of the mother,
just prior to the birth of the baby.
At his State of the Union speech this year,
he promised to pass drastic legislation if re-elected.
I am asking Congress to pass legislation
finally banning the late-term abortion of babies.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Don't, like... Oh, you are?
Well, you're the first, so don't stress...
I was gonna say, don't stress about being late.
Trinity is a lawyer who lives in Georgia.
When she was 20 weeks pregnant, she had to make the decision
to have an abortion for medical reasons.
I cannot make the tuck.
I need a French tuck!
She now runs a support group for women
who have undergone the same traumatic loss as her.
She had extra fluid on her brain.
As less than 10% of them live to their first birthday,
I felt like... I think at that moment I knew,
she's going to die, either way, if I end the pregnancy,
or if I don't in the pregnancy, I knew she was gonna die,
and I was like, "Man, I have to give her a name",
and so we named her...
we named her Angelica that night.
And I know we made the best decision that we could for her
because we just did not want Angelica to suffer.
We didn't want... our living child to suffer, and...
When we went in for the CVS,
they did a full, really detailed ultrasound,
and the valves... the valves were backwards.
And the doctor said because of all that,
he would never grow lungs and would never...
..would never take a breath.
And I remember going out to my car,
and then I just screamed in my car.
I felt so guilty.
And I have no reason to feel guilty, because he would never have ever
drawn a breath because he would have never grown lungs.
But I still wanted to carry him, because I wanted to meet him.
I know you did too.
If late-term abortion is banned,
women like these would have been forced to carry their babies to term
with fatal medical conditions.
Although he later withdrew the claim,
during his election campaign in 2016,
Donald Trump accepted that women should be punished
for having an abortion.
Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no?
The answer is that... there has to be some form of punishment.
For the woman? Yeah. There has to be some form.
Ten years, what? That I don't know.
Statements like these
have distressed and angered Trinity's group.
When the President... Yeah, when the President goes on TV
and says that you should be punished
for something that you know you did out of love for your child,
but you should be punished,
or that you are just wanting to kill your child,
or just waited till your second trimester to do this,
to me, it just made me so angry. I could have...
How dare you? How dare you? And people are cheering him on
like he's saying something that's accurate.
We are so divided, and there is so much blind hatred right now.
And there's someone that has given all of those people
a free pass to do it because he does it so much himself
and seems to feed off of it.
I head back to Dr Robinson's clinic in Huntsville.
A high percentage of her patients
come from the poor, rural areas of Alabama.
Although the war on abortion is often spoken about
in terms of women's rights, what's often ignored
is the particular impact it can have on women of colour.
Through poverty or lack of access to care, a disproportionate number
of African-American women have abortions.
This is Rebecca.
I'm here to terminate a pregnancy
because I'm high risk,
and I'm really young, and I already have a four-year-old daughter.
I'm not financially stable enough to carry another baby,
and I'm not even mentally in a place to carry another baby.
This is not a place for my baby boy right now.
This world? This world.
No. I'm sending my baby back with the angels.
Not here in this hell on Earth. Uh-uh.
Lashonda is the head nurse.
There is no area that women of colour
are gonna be equal to their white counterparts.
We die at alarmingly high rates just from natural childbirth.
So, no, women of colour don't have the same level of care,
they don't have the same access, they don't have the same privilege.
We don't have the same resources
as far as if abortion is illegal in Alabama,
my parents can't fly me to Wisconsin to get an abortion.
Most people don't have that level of care,
they don't have that level of access.
You know, I've never been more afraid
that our rights as women are gonna be taken away.
Dr Sanithia Williams works alongside Dr Robinson at the clinic.
You are told that... somehow, it is wrong
for you not to continue your pregnancy, but...
you don't have access to housing,
you don't have access to healthy, nutritious, affordable food.
You don't have access to...
safe living areas for your children to play.
You're basically told by your government
that you gotta just figure it out.
Don't have an abortion, but figure it out.
Racism touches everything in this country.
We are birthed into it.
It is...
It is in everything, right?
It is in every, you know, experience that I've ever had.
Um...
..even though I know that we have made a lot of progress,
you know, racism is still alive and well.
It's not just us complaining, saying that we are treated differently
and we don't have access to the same things. I see it play out.
Being a woman of colour,
it's like we're not seen. We are not...
We're not seen as important.
And I think that's why, in this whole war,
that women of colour have been forgotten.
Under Donald Trump's term in office, a number of Republican states
have passed laws severely restricting abortion.
In 2019, Alabama banned it even for rape or incest.
None of these state laws
can come into action because they're overruled
by the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe vs Wade.
But just as I finished making this film,
the nightmare of America's abortion providers came true.
CHANTING: Honour her wish, honour her wish...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died
and gave Donald Trump the chance
to establish a decisive conservative majority
at the Supreme Court.
If Roe vs Wade is overturned,
states such as Alabama may be allowed
to severely restrict or even ban abortion.
An American woman's right to choose hangs in the balance.
Trusting patients to know what's best for their lives
and allowing them to make those decisions -
when you have people in office who don't understand that
or who don't care about that, it's gonna hurt women.
Jesus says, "If you love me, obey my commands."
His commands are, "Thou shalt not murder,"
and they are murdering these babies.
It's a war on children.
It's a war on a human being in the womb.
You know...
you're kind of taking the lid off a really dark...
kind of place in this country.
This is... I mean, this is the battle.
The soul of the country, right?
And maybe we aren't exactly where we thought we were.
It's such a tragedy that we just... we can't just let it be.
We just have to do all we can.
I'm 78 years old,
but I'll take my last breath trying to save those babies.
Can I... What can I do? What do you need?
Yeah.
OK.
You can do this. You all can do this.
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