Posted on 08/14/2016 7:05:14 AM PDT by Morgana
Filmmaker Tracy Droz Tragos hopes that her new documentary, “Abortion: Stories Women Tell,” will move people to compassion when they listen to women share the difficult circumstances that led them to choose abortion. Unfortunately, her film extends no compassion for unborn children.
Tragos told Pop Sugar that she was troubled by all the new abortion restrictions in her home state of Missouri. She said she decided to base her new documentary in Missouri and feature the stories of women affected by abortion and the state laws.
Tragos (pictured) never had an abortion herself, but she interviewed more than 40 women who had experiences with it. She also interviewed several pro-lifers in what she said was an effort to present a more balanced view of the issue. These included a sidewalk counselor and a woman who had several abortions and now encourages women to choose life. The filmmaker said she tried not to “demonize” pro-lifers, but her film is solidly pro-abortion.
According to the article, “The resulting film makes a compelling case that women’s reproductive rights are eroding not only in states like Missouri but across the country, and that we can’t afford to be complacent about it.”
Most of the stories in the film are about struggling pregnant and parenting moms. Aborting their unborn babies is presented as a solution to their problems. Despite the push for abortion, Tragos did bring up one good point that both sides are concerned about – the absence of fathers and the burden that falls heavily onto the mothers.
“From what I saw, and the people that I met, there wasn’t a lot of active participation from the men in the picture,” she said. “It’s a burden that’s really borne by women, and so they’re not allowed to have personal agency.”
However, Tragos’ solution was not to teach or require men to be responsible fathers, but to allow women to “choose” to abort their unborn children. This “choice” often puts an even greater burden on many women, and Tragos interviewed one of them.
A pro-lifer featured in the documentary had several abortions and talked about the guilt and shame she felt when she realized that she had killed her unborn children. Rather than recognize that abortions can hurt women as well as their babies, Tragos criticized pro-lifers for talking about abortion regret.
“That’s not part of everyone’s story; I think it’s rather presumptuous to put that on other women,” she said. “It doesn’t leave room for the stories of women who decided [to abort], but who also have mixed feelings. … I think when people put judgment on top of that, it’s just piling on the bullying, where there really just needs to be a space of ‘what you feel is OK; it’s a decision between you and your doctor.’”
Later in the interview, she added:
PS: Have you kept in touch with some of the women you met? I’m especially interested to know where Amie, who in some ways is the anchor of the film, is today. TDT: She has really blossomed with this platform and really feels strongly about being a voice for women. When she first agreed to be a part of the film, I think she was angry and really disenfranchised and felt judged. She was still living with this “I’m a bad person” and had this defensiveness, like “I am not a bad person. I’m trying to get by.” When she came to the premiere, the audience was really incredibly wonderful. Wouldn’t it be great if everyone had that feeling of it being praised instead of shunned and shamed?
Tragos’ hope for the film is that it will “create a community of sorts that makes abortion not so shameful, or stigmatized, or something that has to be uttered in a whisper.”
“My hope is that this film can contribute in any kind of way to that sharing of stories, and it would be amazing if it had a snowball effect and more women came forward and talked about it. Because that’s where we can change things. We can see each other as human beings and there’s more compassion.”
Compassion is vitally important when women are struggling, especially with a difficult pregnancy. Pro-lifers agree with Tragos that women need better support and resources, and men should be more responsible as fathers. But Tragos limits her compassion to the women alone. She said she wants people to view other human beings with compassion, but she herself fails to extend that compassion to the most vulnerable human beings of all – babies in the womb.
Well, I was shocked, too, just because it sounds so crazy.
Sperm burping gutter sluts.
But truthful. Their beliefs and ideas die with them. Families having children and especially a lot of children own the future. Simple fact.
That is extremely unlikely. If every person retained the ideas of his parents, there would never be any change. For example, we would still live in a society that believes fornication is wrong. We do not. We would live in a society that believes homosexual activity is wrong. We do not.
“That is extremely unlikely. If every person retained the ideas of his parents, there would never be any change. For example, we would still live in a society that believes fornication is wrong. We do not. We would live in a society that believes homosexual activity is wrong. We do not.”
Yes and no.
Fornication and homosexuals have always been with us. Just now it’s being ramroded down our throats. We still don’t accept it as normal. Just those who always have want to force it upon the rest of us so they don’t feel like perverts.
Sodom
Moloch!
How long before we get the first abortion pride parade?
You can’t get widespread acceptance of something unless you remove the social stigma by letting everyone know how positively proud you are of that action.
Looking what it did for sodomy. .
Cheering murderers supporting murderers soliciting murderers.
I’ll remember if I ever come upon a PP abortion mill that’s burning down.
I have a friend who had an abortion while in college. Her boyfriend at the time wanted no kids and brought great pressure on her to abort the baby. She was not on good terms with her family and decided to give in to his demands.
Although she rarely talks about the abortion I believe she still can’t get over it. She accepted Christ and I have told her repeatedly if you ask for forgiveness the Lord casts that sin as far as the east is from the west, you are beating yourself up for something that had been forgiven. Since her college days she has married and has several beautiful children and is a church going, kind hearted woman. But I have no doubt she would tell you that abortion was not anything to be proud of, it still causes her pain decades later.
In response, someone should do a documentary named "Abortion: Stories Women Don't Tell"
ALM = Aborted Lives Matter
What a sick society we have become.
“From what I saw, and the people that I met, there wasn’t a lot of active participation from the men in the picture,”
Because men have been ruled out of the picture.
Not a single one of these babies could not have been put up for adoption rather than aborted. There is always a market for new babies to be adopted. Always.
I bet you that most, if not all, of the ‘stories’ told were that the woman could not either afford the child or did not think she could support and care for a child. I bet every single ‘decision’ centered around the possibility of keeping and raising the child.
This illogical excuse is given 99% of the time even though there is no law requiring women to keep and raise a child.
Scary if 20 million more blacks were alive today demanding Obama phones and reparations. On the other hand, maybe there might be a few MLKs, too.
Important: I do not support abortion and thus for argument only.
While it's true that we (you and I) do not consider fornication and homosexuality to be moral, a very significant percentage of our fellow citizens does.
In the case of homosexual activity, I don't think that an absolute majority of the population finds it acceptable. However, an overwhelming majority of the population, including the FR sample, does not believe fornication is wrong.
These are massive changes in beliefs over the past 60 years, and they cannot be attributed to the greater reproductive success of sexual libertines. Most people have converted from the traditional religion of Christianity to the new religion of untrammeled sexual gratification.
Dumb comment at best, sorry. First, pro-life and pro-abort people have the same genes, are in the same families.The aborted worn and no-show no-’count triflin’ men are in our own families, are our own brothers and sisters, cousins and kin.
Second, what you said means you see abortion as a solution to a problem. Willing to see babies killed if it comes out to be, in your mind, some kind of advantage in the end.
that makes you a pro-abort, you know.
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