Posted on 03/20/2016 9:05:15 AM PDT by Morgana
How can abortion advocates call abortion a complex, emotional decision when they also argue that it’s nothing more than a medical procedure?
The question is hard to avoid after watching a new pro-abortion short film by BuzzFeedYellow contributor Ali Vingiano. The 8-minute film “Unplanned” is a fictional account that explores the “complex emotions of an unplanned pregnancy” and stars Vingiano, according to the website.
The film shows the young woman pacing around after a pregnancy test reveals that she is pregnant. Her pregnancy is the result of her first one-night stand with a guy who she met at a bar. The character texts the guy but doesn’t hear back right away; so she calls her best friend and asks her to come with her to the abortion clinic.
When the young woman explains how she got pregnant, her friend jokingly replies, “That’s like getting food poisoning the first time you have Taco Bell.”
Though the friend tries to make light of the situation, she also tells the young woman, “I’m sorry,” and sympathizes with her. The young woman’s face is clearly troubled.
Later, the two friends joke about what the young woman’s child would look like. As the young woman reaches for a french fry, her friend scolds her that she should not eat before her abortion.
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“Put them down or I’m going to show you what your child would look like,” the friend says, pulling up a program on her laptop that generates the image of a toddler using the parents’ photos. Instead, the friend uses her own photo and the young woman’s to create the image of a cute little girl. The friend beckons the young woman to come over and see the picture.
“I like her,” the young woman says.
But she still goes to the abortion clinic. In the waiting room, the two friends joke around as if to ease the tension. Then when the young woman’s name is called, her face falls. Her friend looks at her with a sad smile before she walks back the hallway.
After the abortion, her friend is waiting for her outside with a “Good Luck” balloon and a hug. The two agree that the balloon is in bad taste and leave it on the sidewalk as they walk to the car.
When her friend asks if she feels relieved, the young woman says she is, but her face is pale and uncertain. The film ends with the young woman receiving a text from the one-night stand guy who still does not know about the abortion or their unborn child.
Vingiano said she wanted to portray the complex emotions of a woman having an abortion; but she stops there. The problem with these popular “shout your abortion” stories and short films is that abortion advocates rarely get around to the why – why abortion is a complex, emotional decision, why even they don’t treat abortion as the simple medical procedure that they claim it is.
Though Vingiano’s film makes a passing reference to a child, she, like so many abortion activists, avoids exploring the reality of the decision. If she did, she would have to acknowledge the truth that abortion kills an innocent human being, and that’s why it never will be just another medical procedure.
Shouldn't Taco Bell be very offended to have their name brought into this?
Tax funded abortions are the womanizing young men’s dream. All the fun, no responsibility
I think Taco Bell should sue them.
When a girl makes the decision to have a one-night stand without using any protective measures, she has already effectively decided to have an abortion.
Such film shorts only show what happens as she is closer to dealing with the consequences of that decision she made weeks before. Maybe the fact that the baby she already decided to abort is now real, and no longer the theoretical concept that it was when she chose to engage in the irresponsible behavior is what makes her uncomfortable with the decision.
As pro-lifers, we should be hammering the message that women always make that decision BEFORE they get pregnant. You can tell what the decision is by their sexual behavior. We need to reach them with the message that they can never feel guilty or suffer stigma if they decide not to abort and follow through with responsible behavior that prevents “unwanted” pregnancy in the first place.
Instead of Taco Bell, the script should have read Chipotle.
If you don't want to get pregnant, don't let a guy release 300 million live spermatozoa in or anywhere near your genital tract.
Or on the woman's hands, or his (a very common vector for the inadvertent transfer of fertile sperm.)
I wish more young women --- and men --- would get a more effective comprehension of reproductive reality. It would save them a lot of unnecessary grief, and prevent the careless begetting and murder of their offspring.
Given the stigma surrounding abortion, especially when the woman having the abortion did nothing to prevent the pregnancy, the numbers given for contraceptive use prior to abortion are extremely likely to be inflated. By how much, we cannot know. Another factor in those numbers is the possibility that Planned Parenthood and similar business that depend on abortion for their profits purposely give out birth control that is inadequate. When a business model is built around abortion and that same business is handing out birth control--well, there is a huge conflict of interest there.
The fact is that properly used and correctly prescribed birth control is quite effective, well over 90% in clinical trials. My personal experience is that I've been pregnant twice; when I decided I did not want to get pregnant again, I didn't--because I used birth control.
In any case, even if half the women having abortions were using birth control (a number which is probably drastically inflated), that means that the number of abortions could be cut by half, today, by conditioning women to not even consider consenting to sex unless they are using birth control. And that would mean half a million lives not destroyed for no reason, and half a million women who would not have to spend the rest of their lives with the stigma of abortion hanging over them (not to mention sparing them from the physical and mental problems that abortion causes).
I would love to see all young people educated about reproductive reality--and not propagandized by Planned Parenthood the way I was subjected to during high school.
I do too.
You don’t want to be punished with a baby. Just like Obama says.
Historically, I don't think there's any country on earth (except, admittedly, one big exception: Russia), where rising contraceptive acceptance wasn't immediately followed by rising rates of both nonmarital childbearing *and* abortion.
When she's sober she'll admit to two and say it was the right thing to do. When hammered she'll admit to four and sob uncontrollably.
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