When I first met Amy in the emergency room, she had a slight rupture of her finger. She claimed that it was an accident in the kitchen, but her reckless situation, her textures and the responses that were hesitant to the basic questions that suggested that there be more than what she was abandoning.
Amy reminds me of the girls you grew up with. Sensitive, but exhausted and under pressure. Long hours work in a store with a manager who does not provide any flexibility. Determination of determination to save the college’s classes to her degree, Amy also borrowed the responsibility of her mother’s support, which has grown dependent on pain relievers. It cleans homes to cover unexpected expenses, such as pregnancy after the condom erupted during sex, but they were not able to detect enough money to buy morning control pills.
On June 3, Trump Administration Canceling the guidance Which required hospitals to provide emergency abortion for needy patients. this National guidance It was issued in 2022 by the Biden Administration, using the medical treatment law and active employment (EMTAL), after the Roe V Supreme Court canceled. Wade, and it was intended Help women Facing medical emergencies and other serious complications. The Trump administration’s work is just the latest Salvo in An ongoing battleOne of which seems to be reproductive freedom loses the earth every day. Mood, between both doctors and patients, is one of the uncertainty and constant fear. Here in the emergency room, my mother and I feel.
Amy’s finger was a trick – a desperate act to reach care. She is pregnant and does not want to be. But in our case, abortion is illegal. As an emergency doctor, he told her – quietly – that if she travels to another country, she can obtain appropriate care. You will need a budget for a certain amount of cash for travel expenses. We keep this conversation between us.
The possibility of this scene has become very familiar in real life, but the truth is that Amy is not real. I am not really an emergency doctor, but I play one in a movie.
A few months after the Supreme Court is canceled in the ROE V case. Wade on June 24, 2022, while we were still going to the New York University Press School, my friend Netjartner called me about a movie that he wanted to write and direct it about the moral effects of the post -Rahma world. He has taken into account that I play a doctor in a rustic town torn between her duty to help her patient and the need to obey new restricted laws. Tell me it will be an American horror story. At that time, it seemed prophetic but impossible, a little oily exaggeration to warn of Dystopian. Today, it is our reality, and in some respects, things are worse.
The consequences do not receive women who do not receive reproductive health care from choosing a person like our fictional hero to inspect their ability to create a life on her own conditions, besieging her in a course of poverty with a lack of education.
In Georgia, a pregnant woman was announced that was announced Continue So her child can be delivered. All over the country, women were It turned away from the emergency rooms After suffering from ectopic pregnancy, which requires an emergency abortion to prevent potential fatal results. It was doctors Tobacco and a fineand Including Ketlin BernardOB-GYN of Indiana, who had aborted a 10-year-old victim of abortion in Ohio. Three years ago, all of this seemed to be a fiction, the story of a dream of fever from the tale of maids.
Achievement by propublica In December 2024, it was revealed that doctors in the states who have a miscarriage often feel the abandonment of lawyers and hospital leaders when requesting guidance on how to move forward with patients in emergency situations. Since information about the prohibition management in every state was only provided on the basis of “the need for knowledge”, many doctors are left to move in alternative options on their own, as some have become very afraid of providing care, for fear of professional and personal consequences. Senator Ron Widan (extending Oreg) described the situation as “playing a lawyer” and “playing” lawyers, leaving pregnant women who face life or death in the middle. Experts warn that the decision to eliminate abortion in life -saving emergency situations will exacerbate the crisis for doctors.
The Trump administration order to cancel abortion in emergency situations send a clear message to women who lack adequate resources to provide appropriate care. EMTAL, which was enact in 1986, was designed to protect patients and ensure that they receive installed emergency care, regardless of the insurance status or their ability to pay. While all pregnant women have benefited from this law, it now seems that only those who suffer from health care and sufficient life conditions will be able to survive in possible emergency situations.
I am a writer and actor, not a doctor. But for a while, I imagined how sitting on the other side of a frightened and indulgent woman was about the options she could make around her body. Amy may not be real, but her ordeal is. Many of us may not recognize this, but we have our concerns, the moments when we had to think seriously about the possibility of what we will do if we face a pregnancy we were not ready. In an era I am thinking about the future of childbearing, I temporarily stop: How can anyone assume that there will never be complications in her pregnancy? Stories like Amy are not only the right to make decisions about our bodies; They are also about the painful truth that these options often come at a cost.
When we started making this movie, no choice, we were hoping to imagine a reasonable future – we do not predict our current reality. We could never predict how quickly the real world headlines were not correct, but outperformed the darkest capabilities. Making a movie was just one of many measures that we hope would take others to challenge the belief that the woman’s body belongs to the state, not for herself. There is no choice for the first time in Los Angeles at the Dance Festival with Films on June 23 – just one day shy of the third anniversary that determines the fall of the Roe V. Wade.
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