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to keep turning the BBC abortion documentary off?

9 replies

EyelinerQueen · 05/02/2015 20:35

This is more a 'what is wrong with me' than a 'AIBU'.

I have started and stopped watching last night's doc three times, never getting more than 10 minutes in.

I can almost physically feel my blood pressure rising and my faith in humanity plummeting Angry .

Background: I'm from NI but live in the UK. I'm an atheist feminist and am unequivocally pro choice. I've never had an abortion but supported a friend who had to travel to the UK for hers. I was taught at a convent school and shown pro-life propaganda videos.

I watch hard hitting documentaries all the time and am not usually this affected/bothered.

Any ideas why I'm having such a visceral reaction to this doc? Is it shame of where I come from?

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WorraLiberty · 05/02/2015 20:43

Dunno but why did you attempt it 3 times?

I mean is there a specific reason why you need to watch it?

CarbeDiem · 05/02/2015 20:47

Compassion maybe? plus of course you know what it was like for your friend.
I can't view the documentary but I read online about it (in the daily mail)
That was enough to boil my blood.
I have had an abortion, when I was young and just the thought of having to travel on a boat or plane to gain access to a Dr willing to do it, not to mention the journey back home afterwards really makes me sick.

BertieBotts · 05/02/2015 20:50

Do you have children? Perhaps it's the memory of being pregnant and the knowledge of how that might feel.

seaweed123 · 05/02/2015 21:33

I found it very upsetting. I've never had an abortion, and tbh, I can't imagine that I ever would. But I am firmly pro-choice, and I felt such massive sympathy for the women featured. They all seemed so young and vulnerable, despite the courage that they showed. I could cry just thinking about it.

mytartanscarf · 05/02/2015 21:35

Carbe - why?

CarbeDiem · 05/02/2015 22:15

Why what?
I'm off to bed so I'll answer all that could be a question before I go :)

I can't view it because I'm not in the Uk and can't access it.

It makes me sick because Women should have a right to choose what to do with their own bodies and have access to Dr's, clinics, hospitals in their own countries so that they can go home and recover in the comfort of their own homes instead of having to deal with the reality of it in a airport/port departure terminal.

ROARmeow · 05/02/2015 22:33

I'm from NI and still live here.

Can you link to the documentary, or tell me the name?

Please and thanks.

TRexingInAsda · 05/02/2015 23:02

There's nothing wrong with you. It's an awful, painful (emotionally - I don't know about physically) thing to go through and watch others go through, of course a documentary about it is going to be difficult viewing. Just because women should have a choice, doesn't make that choice easy or nice or anything other than gut-wrenchingly, heartbreakingly terrible. Like anything, obviously some people will cope with it much easier than others, and circumstances are everything too, but I'm sure nobody is watching that program with the popcorn saying 'mm, that's nice'. It's a normal reaction to a very difficult reality. x

QueenB14 · 05/02/2015 23:48

I watched it and was really annoyed, some really sad stories shown and the pro life protesters got on my tits

Roar

It's something like "abortion; Ireland 's guilty secret" or something, shown on BBC3 last night, should be on I player

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