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Women's Voices as Evidence: Personal Testimony is Pro-Choice Films

Barbara A. Pickering Barbara A. Pickering is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. Portions of this essay are drawn from the author's dissertation, “The Rhetoric of Visual Images: An Analysis of Pro-choice/Pro-life Films,” directed by Dr. Randall Lake. An earlier version of this essay was selected by the Western Forensics Association for presentation as a top three paper at the Annual Meeting of the Western States Communication Association in Monterey, CA, February 1997. The author would like to thank Edward Schiappa, Dale Herbeck, Cate Palczewski, Chuck Gentile and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and supportive feedback on this essay.Correspondence[email protected]
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Films Cited

  • Goodwin, T. , & Wurzburg, T. (Producer and director), Hatgan, R (Associate producer). (1985). Personal Decisions. [Videocassette]. United States: Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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