Scary movie

Culture | A PBS documentary should worry abortionists but cheer pro-lifers | Gene Edward Veith

The state of Mississippi now has only one abortion clinic. Over the past decade, the pro-life movement has shut down the others, one by one. Now the state's last abortion clinic is in trouble and may close down by the end of the year.

"The Last Abortion Clinic," a documentary on the PBS show Frontline (Tuesday, Nov. 8, 9:00 p.m. ET) chronicles how this happened. The show's bias is pro-abortion, clearly designed to alarm PBS viewers who consider abortion to be what the program calls "a fundamental right." But pro-lifers will find the documentary encouraging. And it will give them ideas.

Producer Raney Aronson earlier gave us "The Jesus Factor," a documentary on the political influence of American evangelicals. In the same vein, "The Last Abortion Clinic" shows how Christian sidewalk counselors and organized activists are succeeding in putting abortionists out of business.