POLITICAL leaders including John Howard and Mark Latham voiced concern yesterday at the ABC's decision to screen an abortion on national television, but there were no moves to ban the controversial documentary.The British film contains confronting footage of a doctor scraping a woman's uterus and sucking out blood and foetal tissue using a syringe-like instrument. There are shots of a doctor sorting through foetal tissue, and of the remains of foetuses up to the age of 21 weeks. My Foetus, produced by pro-choice Briton Julia Black, will screen in an Australian first on the ABC's Compass program on August 8, as revealed in The Australian yesterday. Black, the daughter of a pro-abortion doctor, reflects on her decision to terminate a pregnancy at age 21.
