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Sharon
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Date Posted: 07/19/06 8:18pm
Jacqueline and Luka (and anyone else who is interested),
(Sorry, this is REALLY long!)
I originally posted this as a reply to Jacqueline's post, but it's buried kind of deep. So, I thought I'd repost it here as a new thread and invite others on the board if they feel inclined. It is a very odd request and I apologize if it's out of place here. (Tracey, if you feel you don't want to approve it, I understand completely and trust your judgement on this ;-)
My question is, would the two of you (or anyone else on this board) be interested in being interviewed by two documentary film makers from New York who are creating a documentary on the pro-choice and pro-life sides of the abortion issue? The documentary will be aired on Showtime in about 18 months. They've come out to South Dakota a few of times this summer and have interviewed me, among others, because of my pro-life position and my personal experience with almost aborting my first child, and because I live in South Dakota where we just passed the Women's Health and Human Life Protection Act (known by the pro-choice side as "the abortion ban".)
These two filmmakers feel that the whole issue has been reduced to stereotypes and soundbites by the media. They are trying to offer an indepth look at why people are so passionate on this issue. They want to accurately and fairly portray BOTH sides without a bias toward EITHER side (a difficult task.) And they want to, most importantly, tell the STORIES of real people...giving them a voice and allowing their voices to blow away the stereotypes on BOTH sides.
I mentioned to the two filmmakers that one of the things I feel drawn to do in my personal support of life, women, and their babies is to visit this board and try to provide life-affirming support and encouragement to women facing unplanned pregnancies. I feel that my own life experience (of having almost aborted my first child) gives me a particular perspective that I feel compelled to share - for the sake of the women AND their babies.
I've shared how I've found that MANY times, the whole concept of "choice" is ridiculous. As you pointed out, Luka, everyone around the woman seems for "choice" as long as the choice is to abort. They resist supporting her when HER choice is to try to protect and have her baby. The culture has become so insensitive to life that a woman is seen as "selfish" to WANT to protect her child. It's absurd...but it's very real. And women run up against these attitudes all the time. It's particularly hurtful and difficult for them because they run into these attitudes held by the very people they love the most.
I mentioned to the filmmakers that MANY of the woman on this board report feeling a sort of excitement and glimmering of "joy" - sometimes mixed with fear and apprehension, of course - when they first find out they're pregnant. But, it's when they tell their boyfriends or their husbands or their parents and find that THOSE people - people they love and trust and thought loved and wanted what was best for them - try to convince them to have an abortion that they feel abandoned and helpless and lost...and begin to view abortion as a viable option - even though they don't really WANT to have an abortion.
In essence, the women are coerced - either by people or by circumstances - into abortion. It's not a choice - it's a NON-choice. They "choose" abortion because they are painted into a corner, they are desparate. Someone once said a woman chooses abortion like a trapped animal chooses to gnaw off it's limb in order to escape from the trap.
So...back to my very odd request: Would either of you (or anyone else reading this) be interested in being a part of this documentary film? It will potentally have a very wide audience and would allow people who might never have thought of the complexities involved in the issue of abortion to think more critically about it.
The filmmakers are Henry Corra and Celia Maysles. Their company is http://www.corrafilms.com if you want to check them out and see what sort of films they've done. They could do interviews where your face and identity are not disclosed if you'd feel more comfortable with that.
I thought I'd put this out there for you to think about. If you would like to contact either of them, their e-mail addresses are festival@corrafilms.org (Celia Maysles) and henry@corrafilms.org (Henry Corra). If you want, you can contact me at either gray@augie.edu (my main e-mail address) or sharongray99@yahoo.com and have me as a go-between if you'd rather not disclose your e-mail to them.
Sharon
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