Last week I blogged about a study released by Planned Parenthood’s research arm, the Guttmacher Institute. Abortion rates have dropped to their lowest point in 30 years, but black women are still overrepresented among the statistics. In 2004, black women aborted at five times the rate of white women.
Matt Jones, a student at Biola University, GodBlogCon sponsor, wrote and directed a short film called “Choices.” (Click on link or image to watch trailer on YouTube)
Matt’s goal is to get his film, released last year, into high school classrooms.
Along with films like “Choices,” there needs to be an emphasis on abstinence in so-called sex education programs in government schools. The first “it’s my body” choice a woman (or girl) has on the road to “unplanned” pregnancy is keeping her legs closed. If, after she chooses to open her legs and have sex, she ends up pregnant, she has more choices of the non-fatal variety. She can marry the father and create a stable, intact family, and raise the child. If she doesn’t want the baby, she can carry him to term and give him to a family who wants him and will love and take care of him.
Killing the child should never be an option.
Totally unrelated note: This week, I’m preparing to leave my temporary home in SC and move permanently to Southern California. I’m taking a brief break from updating this blog. Thanks again for all the well wishes and kind words about my decision to leave DC after 10 years (more backstory).
See you later.
