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Post by hannahmichalek14 on Apr 15, 2013 19:49:08 GMT -5
Responding to joes question, i think that the best thing for a woman to do if she had gone through a tramedic experince such as rape does have the choice to go through an abortion without it being immoral. To me, this is the only exception of getting an abortion becuase rape is a very serious issue and you dont want the long term affects of it haunting you all the time. Yes you can put the baby up for adoption, but there is always that little part of you that you that is wondering what their child is doing or does it look like them? Some may argue against this point but the reality of it is, that a baby and the mother have a special bond that no one can understand and that connection cannot just vanish. So abortion is an option for someone who has gone through rape and doesnt want to have the child. I do not think the catholic church would consider it "immoral"
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Post by meganrux on Apr 15, 2013 19:50:15 GMT -5
To respond to Joe, I believe that since the Church holds such strong beliefs against abortion (calling it an "intrinsic evil" and that it is never "morally permissible), even in cases of rape, the mother would need to carry the baby until term and then either put it up for adoption or to raise it herself. Unless the rape led to some horrible disease or illness that, in order to save the mother, the only option would be to remove the uterus, Fallopian tube, or whatnot (therefore removing and killing the fetus), the Church would always forbid an abortion.
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Post by ryanmcguire on Apr 15, 2013 20:10:57 GMT -5
In response to Meg, I also noticed that instead of being like a normal documentary where there is a narrator, no narrator was present. I think this was the case in the movie because often times a narrator can sway an audience one way or another, and this once again relates to the point that the issue of abortion is much hotly debated and very hard to fully understand.
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Post by meganrux on Apr 15, 2013 20:36:16 GMT -5
Ryan, that's also true. It was nice to have the documentary allow the audience to formulate their own opinions while knowing details of both arguments. It was less preaching and more providing.
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Post by karinad on Apr 15, 2013 20:42:17 GMT -5
If anything, Stacy's background story made me sympathize with the mother, rather than the embryo. I'm sure if I watched a doctor suck out the brain of a viable fetus as the mother was giving birth to it, then I would sympathize more with the fetus. In all, great documentary, I want to watch the rest of it - I liked how it made it clear that the situation is not black and white, there are many shades of grey. I will admit that I think it was leaning toward the liberal side a bit, painting a picture of the left side as level-headed and open-minded, and the right side as screaming church-goers and people who bomb abortion clinics.
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Post by Mr. Daniel on Apr 16, 2013 14:19:23 GMT -5
In all, great documentary, I want to watch the rest of it - I liked how it made it clear that the situation is not black and white, there are many shades of grey. I will admit that I think it was leaning toward the liberal side a bit, painting a picture of the left side as level-headed and open-minded, and the right side as screaming church-goers and people who bomb abortion clinics. I do think that the documentary is pretty balanced. The middle section of the movie (which we did not watch) does spend what may be an excessive amount of time on the anti-abortion extremists, but the beginning of the movie also has some parts from non-religious opponents of abortion. I definitely recommend watching the whole thing if you get a chance. |
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