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AFTER TILLER

“Our agenda is not political, but humanist, as Dr Tiller once said, we are all prisoners of our own experience, and we hope that our filmmaking will help people evaluate their positions in a more honest, thoughtful, and complicated way.”
– Martha Shane, Lana Wilson

After Tiller is a feature documentary by Martha Shane & Lana Wilson that goes inside the lives of the last four doctors in America who openly provide third-trimester abortions.

Dr George Tiller was a faithful churchgoer and a father of four. He was also one of the only doctors in the country who performed third-trimester abortions, and in 2009, he became the eighth American abortion clinic worker to be assassinated since Roe v. Wade. With his death, there are now only four doctors in the country who openly provide late abortions. After Tiller moves between the stories of these four doctors – two men and two women – all of whom were close friends and colleagues of Dr. Tiller, and are fighting to keep this service available in the wake of his death.

After Tiller paints a complex, compassionate portrait of these physicians – Dr. LeRoy Carhart, Dr. Warren Hern, Dr. Susan Robinson and Dr. Shelley Sella – who have become the new number-one targets of the anti-abotrion movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day to do work that many believe is murder, but which they believe is profoundly important for their patients’ live.

Rather than trying to take a comprehensive look at the heated political debate surrounding abortion, the film weaves together revealing, in-depth interviews with the doctors with intimate verite scenes from their lives and inside their clinics, where they counsel and care for their anxious, vulnerable patients at an important crossroads in their lives. By sharing the moving stories of several of these patients, After Tiller illuminates the experiences of women who seek late abortions and the reasons why they do so.

After Tiller follows these four doctors as they confront a host of obstacles – from moral and personal dilemmas to restrictions placed on their practices by state legislation. For all these doctors, the memory of Dr. Tiller remains a constant presence in their lives, serving both as an inspiration to persevere in helping women, and a warning of the risks they take by doing so.

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