Check out this review of Lake of Fire, a new documentary from Tony Kaye (American History X) on abortion.  Kaye claims that the documentary affords a balanced view of the issue and doesn’t take sides.  Is it, and does it?  National Review says not really, maybe.  According to the review, there’s a terrific amount of highlighting nutball pro-lifers, but there’s a little but of highlighting nutball pro-choicers, too.  And then there’s this:

[W]e must laud Kaye for the most talked-about scene in the movie: It shows an actual abortion. You see body parts as the doctor assembles them on a table.And Kaye’s words are revealing:

“From the moment I started making the film I thought I have to show an abortion, which at the time had never been done before.”

That’s right. You see lots of bloody hospital procedures on Grey’s Anatomy each week, you see grisly autopsies on CSI nearly every day, but we have never once seen the most common surgical procedure performed on women under 40 – not even on Nova.

That might help the abortion debate.

I’m not sure I could watch this, or what good it would do.  The ultimate message of the film seems to be summed up by Alan Dershowitz in the film: “‘Everybody is right when it comes to the issue of abortion,’ he says in the film. ‘In the end human beings have to decide.’”  Basically, then: “Believe whatever you want to believe, but whatever you believe, you had better be “pro-choice.”