Abortion: Desperate Choices (1992)
An intensely personal exploration of an explosive issue -- abortion in America. Wrenching first-person narratives from seven decades of women, each one facing an unplanned pregnancy -- and the dreadful decision that no one wants to make. Both pro-life and pro-choice, both out front on the picket line and inside the clinic, these women's stories turn politics into heart-searing drama: a pregnant 17-year-old and her pro-life mother whose conflict unfolds in front of the camera; a 22-year-old who became a pro-life protester when she learned that her mother nearly aborted her; an unhappy mother-of-two who's expecting a third when her marriage suddenly hits the rocks; a 71-year-old grandmother who still grieves for her mother, an early victim of illegal abortion. In this fusion of past and present, the history of abortion is the history of women -- told at a time in America when yesterday's back-alley abortions may be the only choice left for tomorrow.
Directors: Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson, Albert Maysles.
| Directing | Susan Froemke | Director |
| Production | Susan Froemke | Producer |
| Sound | Susan Froemke | Sound |
| Camera | Albert Maysles | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Susan Froemke | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Deborah Dickson | Director |
| Directing | Albert Maysles | Director |
| Production | Nell Archer | Co-Producer |
| Production | Deborah Dickson | Producer |
| Production | Albert Maysles | Producer |
| Production | Sheila Nevins | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Wendy Blackstone | Music |
| Editing | Deborah Dickson | Editor |
| Camera | James D. Cooper | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | John Romeo | Assistant Camera |
| Editing | Sakae Ishikawa | Assistant Editor |
| Production | Martha Wollner | Researcher |
