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MY FOETUS

Filmmaker Julia Black is heavily pregnant - and her foetus is forcing her to address the abortion debate.

In this unique documentary she takes the viewer on her personal journey to find out whether she could still be pro-choice when confronted by the reality of abortion.

The 1967 Abortion Act made abortions legal in Britain. Today, there are 180,000 abortions a year in Britain and 87% take place before 12 weeks. The legal limit of abortion is 24 weeks.

In this programme, Julia meets with people from different sides of the debate: the doctors who perform the procedures and the campaigners who believe abortion is murder.

For the first time on British television, the programme shows an abortion procedure at four weeks of pregnancy, an inspection of aborted foetal remains of a seven-week pregnancy and images of a 10, 11 and 21 week aborted foetus.

Ultimately Julia remains pro-choice - believing women should not be forced to bear children they do not want.

"Having looked at the facts, uncomfortable as they are, you have to make up your own mind as to which life takes priority. That decision is a moral one, that only you can make," she says.


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