Dr. Richard Stuntz
				"When I was first asked to participate in the filming of On Hostile Ground, I was concerned that the exposure would increase the risk to my family. On further thought, I recognized that unless this story is told, and the threat of violence by fundamentalist groups against the freedoms of American women is revealed, neither I nor my family would ultimately ever be free of this risk. Let the sunlight of knowledge and reason scour out this bed of hatred."
		Dr. Richard Stuntz, an OB-GYN and a psychiatrist who lives in Baltimore, Maryland, spends three days each week providing abortions at clinics in Mobile, Montgomery, and Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Stuntz is 76 years old. He has been commuting from Maryland to Alabama for over twenty years. His wife, a psychiatric nurse, is concerned about his health and would like him to retire, but the clinics he serves have been unable to find a doctor to replace him. Dr. Stuntz wishes that more unwanted pregnancies were prevented through contraception, but he sees that ours is not an ideal world. The son of Methodist missionaries, he sees the Christian qualities of helping people in need and refraining from judging others as central to his work. The women who operate the clinics he serves in Alabama share his views, suggesting that in the South, the abortion debate might well be understood as a conflict between two opposing views of Christianity.