The Fourth Trimester, based on a short story by the writer / director of the Student Emmy® award-winning short of the same title, is set in the not too distant future, when the right to life has been Constitutionally redefined as beginning twenty years after conception. Subsequently made into a feature film, shot on 16mm, the full length version uses footage from the short, and was made while Michael R.R. McLaughlin was still a student.