30 Days
So I'm watching Morgan Spurlock's television show 30 Days and tonight's episode was about a very liberal pro-choice woman who was living with pro-life advocates. I find it so interesting how so many of these pro-life advocates slant information to pressure women to conform to what they believe those women should be doing. A pro-choice women's shelter calls itself a "maternity home" and yet the only informational video they require women to view is the one that discourages abortion. They have many educational videos on labor and delivery, healthy practices while pregnant etc. and yet the women are not required to view any of those. If the place is a maternity home, shouldn't they be working to provide women with as much information on childbirth as possible, and yet they only strive to get the anti-abortion message across. There are women in this home that are pregnant with their 5th child and just recently stopped shooting heroin, young girls between 14 and 18 who are on their second or third child, and almost none of these women have any contact with their previous children because they were taken from them by child protective services for being unfit parents. These people refer to any abortions as being the "American Holocaust". I find myself offeded by all of the protesters on this show who were on the streets of Hollywood with grotesque signs while children are walking around with their families trying to enjoy their vacation. Why should people be exposed to images like the ones pro-choice advocates like to put on their posters? There are children who have no business seeing those images, but unfortunately the advocates make it nearly impossible to avoid them.
I love the pro-choice woman on this episode, because she asks all of the uncomfortable questions that the pro-lifers don't want to address. She asks why they only show the pro-life slanted video rather than more informational videos on labor and delivery. She asks why they feel justified in shouting that someone is a murderer when they have no knowledge of the situation that woman is in. She asks what solutions these pro-life advocates for women who decide not to abort but can't afford to care for their child. It's interesting, because they have no solutions. They say adoption, but they can't answer the question of who is going to adopt children who are drug addicted or have fetal alcohol syndrome, or who happen to be minorities. They can't explain what sort of social system will be put into place in order to provide some sort of future for these children who are being "saved". I love that pro-life advocates want to save babies until they're born, and then they do nothing to provide a future for those children.
Anyway, this episode just made me think, and I think it made me more solid in my pro-choice point of view. Women are people, they are capable of thinking and making their own decisions. Women are no longer mindless drones who do as their husbands tell them. Women are strong people, sometimes stronger of spirit than the men they take a back seat to, so to watch people calling them murderers and scream profanities at them makes me sick. Perhaps those people should think that the decision to abort was actually the harder one to make for a lot of those women and trust them to know what is best.
I love the pro-choice woman on this episode, because she asks all of the uncomfortable questions that the pro-lifers don't want to address. She asks why they only show the pro-life slanted video rather than more informational videos on labor and delivery. She asks why they feel justified in shouting that someone is a murderer when they have no knowledge of the situation that woman is in. She asks what solutions these pro-life advocates for women who decide not to abort but can't afford to care for their child. It's interesting, because they have no solutions. They say adoption, but they can't answer the question of who is going to adopt children who are drug addicted or have fetal alcohol syndrome, or who happen to be minorities. They can't explain what sort of social system will be put into place in order to provide some sort of future for these children who are being "saved". I love that pro-life advocates want to save babies until they're born, and then they do nothing to provide a future for those children.
Anyway, this episode just made me think, and I think it made me more solid in my pro-choice point of view. Women are people, they are capable of thinking and making their own decisions. Women are no longer mindless drones who do as their husbands tell them. Women are strong people, sometimes stronger of spirit than the men they take a back seat to, so to watch people calling them murderers and scream profanities at them makes me sick. Perhaps those people should think that the decision to abort was actually the harder one to make for a lot of those women and trust them to know what is best.