Public Enemies, Private Friends | Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 10 | 1m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
Leaders from opposing sides of the abortion debate meet in secret talks following deadly attacks.
On December 30, 1994, a man entered two abortion clinics in Brookline, MA. By day's end, two women were dead, five wounded, and a community was left mourning. Thus began a clandestine dialogue between leaders of the pro-choice and pro-life movements and the beginning of the most unlikely friendship.
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Public Enemies, Private Friends | Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 10 | 1m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
On December 30, 1994, a man entered two abortion clinics in Brookline, MA. By day's end, two women were dead, five wounded, and a community was left mourning. Thus began a clandestine dialogue between leaders of the pro-choice and pro-life movements and the beginning of the most unlikely friendship.
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(crowd chattering indistinctly) A gunman opens fire at two reproductive health clinics killing two and injuring five more.
- There had been a 10 year period of some pretty serious attacks on abortion clinics, culminated in the worst one the country's ever had.
- [Crowd Together] Right to choose- TINA: In a remarkable response for the first time, leaders on both sides of the debate begin secret meetings.
- To be in a room with people that you thought were involved in taking human life was very scary.
TINA: Against all odds, the conversations changed their lives.
- If you bring passionate people close enough together, even though they would ordinarily repel, they can connect and create something very powerful.
They understood that what they had accomplished in the room could have a bigger impact and could change the rhetoric across the country.
And so the question was, how do they do that?
TINA: Public Enemies, Private Friends on Local, USA.
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