Selda: A short feature about an abortionist justifying her profession as God's calling

Date of Publication

2009

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts Major in Communication Arts

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Communication

Thesis Adviser

Elvin Amerigo D. Valerio

Defense Panel Chair

Maria Angeli H. Diaz

Abstract/Summary

Selda is a 20-minute drama feature about a 30-year-old abortionists who believes that her profession, which she considers as God's calling, enables her to help women form their unwanted pregnancies. After being charged with the death of a young girl, Selda evades the accusation and continues her job amid the watchful eye of the police. Due to her husband's prodding, she decides to lay low for a while but if offered by her regular customer another job, which she finds hard to refuse. She accepts it with the condition that this will be her last. Unfortunately, she gets caught by the police and learns that her belief cannot contest the law.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU15613

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

59, [45] leaves ; 28 cm.

Keywords

Women physicians--Crimes against--Fiction; Mothers--Death--Fiction; Abortion--Fiction; Drama

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