mmgraff Review of A Healthy Baby Girl

A Healthy Baby Girl (1997)

Saw film at Sundance in 1997. Powerful, moving, thought-provoking.

[10/10 · 30 November 2001]

Saw the film in 1997 at Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah with Filmmaker, Judith Helfand. Many in the audience were DES children, both men and women. After the film, discussion ensued, which quickly became an opportunity for DES children to talk about their own experiences with the effects of DES, how their health has been affected by chemicals both those prescribed and those in the environment. I went to see the film for the selfish reason that I am a DES daughter and thought I would gain some insight because I didn't know much about it except what my mother had told me. I found a community. From the group, one DES survivor in the Salt Lake City, UT area has organized around the Tooele Army Depot chemical weapons disposal and the risk to residents' health.