Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Accepting the 2010 Peabody Award for “12th & Delaware”
In 1999, an anti-abortion organization in Fort Pierce, Florida, bought a house across the street from A Woman’s World, an abortion clinic, and established the Pregnancy Care Center. The center provides health services and alternate counseling — some women understandably mistake it for the clinic — while serving as a de facto home base for protestors who patrol the clinic’s sidewalks day and night. 12th & Delaware, named for the intersection, covers a two-year span during which filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady had stunningly intimate access to both camps. If this somber documentary doesn’t resolve the long-standing debate, it presents the two positions honestly and fairly.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/12th-delaware