I know...this sounds like an oxymoron. Believe me, I know. But, I just read a blog entry that supports that very assertation. You really should check it out.
Now of the six movies that are listed in this blog, I've only seen one of them - Knocked Up. And I must admit how surprised I was by the pro-life themes woven subtly throughout the movie. While graphic and admittedly quite vulgar, the main character (played by Katherine Heigl of Grey's Anatomy) steps up in a big way when she winds up unexpectedly pregnant. Not only does she choose to keep the baby, she also chooses to establish a relationship with the baby's pot-smoking, porn-watching idiot father. And...over time, he too steps up and cleans up his act before the baby arrives.
It was quite different from all of the pro-choice political jockeying and monologuing that usually comes from Hollywood's stars and starlets. But...as the point is made in this blog, Abortion is neither sexy nor heroic - its killing an innocent, defenseless baby. How are you supposed to defend that in film? Simply put - you couldn't. Not in a film that the public would actually want to see and pay $10 to see it.
Too often, our society tends to gloss over the real facts of pregnancy and instead allows women (and men, too) to make decisions that appear to make sense in the short run without any consideration for the long-term implications (death for the baby and profound medical and mental risks and complications for the mother.)
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