I was quite perplexed while reading this recent opinion piece by Josephine Tovey in the Sydney Morning Herald. Tovey wants to know why the upcoming comedy Knocked Up, which deals with a woman falling pregnant after a one night stand, doesn't discuss abortion as an option. She says,
In reality, most women would at least consider an abortion.I haven't seen the film, and from the little publicity I have seen it doesn't look like my kinda movie, but still - why should it be an automatic assumption that the woman would want to terminate her pregnancy? True, the conception has occurred under less than ideal circumstances. In fact, the whole premise of the movie says some really sad things about how our world views sex, relationships and conception - so far away from what our amazing God intended.
Yet the female protagonist of the film, Alison (Katherine Heigl), doesn't even entertain the possibility of terminating the pregnancy, and the a-word doesn't make it into the script.
But is it true that all women, "in reality", would consider an abortion under these circumstances? Or would it just be all women with Tovey's worldview?
1 comments:
I haven't seen the movie either, although I'm tempted to see it. I'm sure it portrays a world far from God, a world that is all too prevalent and one that I think most of my friends live in. Given that we live amongst a world like this I wonder if it's bad to just kick back and laugh at it sometimes because to consider how far from God it is all the time can be overwhelming depressing.
I think you're right, it is silly to think that every woman would consider abortion. Perhaps Josephine Tovey should look up and see that there are people who value life strongly and who are willing to face the consequences of their actions.
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