I happened to meet Sarah Weddington, who was the lawyer who argued Roe v. Wade. I was at a small dinner that she was at and everyone was talking about the crises in abortion access and the shortage of abortion providers and the fact that so many people don't realize that abortion rights are threatened simply by the fact that people aren't being trained and aren't learning how to do it. Jenny had also been thinking about this issue because one of her best friends is a leader in this organization called Medical Students for Choice. And then whenever we talked to anyone about the statistics everyone was always so surprised. It seemed like this was something that really needed to be gotten out there.
Doctors have plenty of other ways to make money.
There have been many good documentaries that have talked to activists on both sides and talked to women making decisions, and these were very powerful films. But we felt that the debate had become so politicized that it's easy to forget that it's a medical issue. We wanted to bring it back to the doctors who are dealing with it as a medical issue everyday. So far we've worked with Dr. Richard Stuntz. He lives in Baltimore and flies to Alabama every week for 3 days to do abortions at clinics in Mobile, Montgomery and Birmingham.