{"id":177819,"date":"2018-01-23T17:21:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=177819"},"modified":"2018-01-24T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T19:25:12","slug":"roe-v-wade-movie-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/roe-v-wade-movie-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"New Roe v. Wade thriller drama set to tell story of abortion in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
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It has been 45 years since the Supreme Court ruled abortion legal under the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Roe v. Wade<\/em> story is getting cinematic treatment as a historical drama for the first time.<\/p>\n

Rather than contribute another documentary to the subject, producer and spokesman Nick Loeb describes the feature-length vision of the latest production as comparable to “JFK,” starring Kevin Costner. The film has already secured Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight for a Supreme Court justice role, and has garnered the interest of Janine Turner and Jennifer O’Neill.<\/p>\n

The idea was conceived roughly a year and a half ago when Loeb was an actor on the set of “15 Rounds,” directed by Ken Kushner, now a producer of “Roe v. Wade.” \u201c[Kushner] heard my story and pitched me the idea\u201d explains Loeb, who has been in a publicized custody fight over two frozen embryos<\/a> he fathered with ex-fianc\u00e9e Sof\u00eda Vergara.<\/p>\n

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Nick Loeb (Photo credit: Nick Loeb Facebook page)<\/p><\/div>\n

Loeb tells Live Action News that he spent the next year studying the Roe v. Wade<\/em> case, reading over forty books about the case along with relevant court transcripts. The research\u00a0brought Loeb to a story that runs deeper than the lawsuit that put Norma McCorvey (“Jane Roe”) on the national stage.<\/p>\n

In the resulting script for “Roe v. Wade,” created with a team of professional screenwriters, Notre Dame law professor Charles Rice is the protagonist who discovers Lawrence Lader’s conspiracy to legalize abortion, from craftily co-opting Betty Friedan’s feminist movement to pawning na\u00efve young McCorvey. Working alongside Rice is Dr. Mildred Jefferson, a pro-life activist and the first Black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School. Jefferson sees abortion as especially threatening to the Black community. Dr. Alveda King, an executive producer of the film, is slated to make a cameo appearance as Jefferson’s mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cMargaret Sanger is an essential character,\u201d says Loeb, \u201cnot only because she was the founder of Planned Parenthood; she was also the mentor of\u2026 Larry Lader,” who founded NARAL and was “the father of the abortion movement in America.”<\/p>\n

Lader was a writer and Sanger biographer who was smitten with Sanger’s intellect and took her ideas to another level. His book, “Abortion,” was cited multiple times by the Supreme Court in the Roe v. Wade<\/em> majority opinion.<\/p>\n

“Even though Margaret was against abortion, that’s how Larry made a living,” says Loeb, “referring girls to a league of doctors” such as Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who performed more than 60,000 abortions. A second trimester abortion is explained below by former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levatino:<\/p>\n