The return of the back-alley abortionist. Laws favoring fanatical religious bias against the rights of women over their own bodies. The rise of injuries from self-inflicted abortions. Poor women targeted while rich women can just jet out of the country for their procedures.
All we need is the law jailing women for "fetal murder" and we'll be EXACTLY where this film predicted, 30 years ahead of time.
Good job, America!
I'm shocked there's only one post on this board. I just came across this on netflix. The slow chipping away of rights ... here we go. It's disgusting and frightening.
shareI am in the process of watching this film for the first time.
Had I seen this film in 1992, I probably would have dismissed it as pro-abortion hysteria...a work of fiction. Roe V. Wade is safe.
I'm not laughing now. The recent fortunate defeat of the Personhood bill in Alabama is laudable, but the mere fact that such legislation was even on a ballot in ANY state is terrifying.
This film predicted over twenty years ago what seems to be taking place right now at an early stage.
I sincerely hope that this film will have some renewed interest among thinking, reasonable people.
Now take a look at the current crop of Republican candidates including Ron Paul (an ardent anti-abortion supporter and religious zealot) and be concerned...be VERY concerned. And not only for Roe v. Wade...be concerned that the potential for the US to become an intolerant nation with religion infesting each and every law exists. It exists in the hearts and minds of those candidates.
Don't watch this film and say "Oh, that could never happen here..." for you do so at your peril.
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I'm watching this on Netflix now (damn them but they DO justify their existence), so sad to see the truth in this. I hope santorum doesn't see this.
shareI have an extensive Netflix account with over 100 documentaries ; 75-odd science fiction films & series ; and 25-odd films devoted to women's interests (societal, familial, & sexual). Netflix has never suggested "Without Rain" to me. That boggles the mind. . . . I heard about this film from Thom Hartmann's radio program (www.thomhartmann.com).
shareThis really was a prescient movie. I am in the process of re-watching and it is truly frightening how accurate this movie is.
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An interesting, if somewhat biased, movie.
For many years,I was pro choice, but the last few years I've had a change in thought. The pro choice advocates can try and justify abortion as a woman's choice and that what is removed from the woman's body isn't really human, but it is a human life that is ending. If not, why is a person charged with murder if, say, a drunk driver causes an accident that ends a pregnancy? What's the difference between causing an accident that ends the pregnancy and a medical procedure that ends a pregnancy? And it totally disregards the father's rights, as it is his child, too. The father's rights are disregarded until a child is born, then he becomes very important.
It's a very difficult question, as the "back alley" abortion is a real threat. Maybe if contraception were more readily available and people taught how to use them, many of the millions of abortions wouldn't have been performed. That's one of the problem with the current abortion culture; too many abortions are performed as birth control. Maybe better sex education that stresses the responsibility that comes with intercourse, education not shackled by the religious right, might light a light bulb in the irresponsible that shows the consequences of unprotected intercourse (and yes, I know about the failure rates of birth control.).
It comes down to,in my thinking, that nobody has the right to end a human life, and a fetus is a human life.
I started watching this on THIS TV, but went to Netflix to watch it unedited. They really need to add another star in the rating system, between I like it and I don't like it. Maybe label it Meh? That's what I would have rated this one. Although seeing Carolyn McCormick during her "Minuet" stage was nice.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
I rented this film out and watched it over a decade ago---as much as I used to love renting out (or going to see) indie films back in the day, I'd never heard of this flick---the only reason I found out about it is either from the long-defunct John Stanley's CREATURE FEATURE GUIDE, or Leonard Maltin's VIDEO GUIDE. In the pre-Internet days, these were the go-to guides for film geeks like myself to find strange,interesting and virtually unknown films (like RWT) that never even got a review in the local paper by critics. Interesting film though---I didn't quite catch on to the futuristic slang at first,and it was kind of off-putting, but as the full implications of a possible future with abortion being re-criminalized in full force dawned on me while watching the film,it did become slightly downright chilling. The only other film I've seen deal with the topic of abortion (with some humor) is CITIZEN RUTH--that's worth checking out,too, and it's funny on top of that,considering the subject matter.
RWT was pretty good when I saw it---the title always sounded very intrieging to me, so it was cool to find out that it's from a quote by the great Frederick Douglass (shown at the end). Missed it on the THIS channel, but they'll probably rerun it again, hopefully. Interesting to see it actually being shown on TV---with all the current debates and hell-raising about abortion and having birth control covered, it ought to be worth watching even more so now
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All we need is the law jailing women for "fetal murder" and we'll be EXACTLY where this film predicted, 30 years ahead of time.
Good job, America!
I am watching this film right now. It reminds me of Handmaid's Tale.
We ARE heading in this direction and we - women - need to take control back. First stop: ABORT TEXAS.