Posted on 10/14/2004 12:28:26 PM PDT by mountaineer
It's no coincidence that Brit director Mike Leigh's film "Vera Drake" - a sympathetic portrayal of a working-class lady who performs illegal abortions to help young women in 1950s England - has come out at the height of a presidential campaign.
"When we decided to make the movie a couple of years ago, we calculated that it would be released around about now," Leigh told me yesterday. "I'm trying to get the audience to confront that abortion is a moral dilemma. We know that life is destroyed. But I'm pro-choice. So far as I'm concerned, it is an overcrowded, hostile, chaotic world, and we should think very carefully before bringing unwanted, unloved people into the world."
The pro-choice lobby has embraced "Vera Drake" and its message: Keep abortion safe and legal. This week a consortium of Planned Parenthood, Catholics for a Free Choice, NARAL and others hosted a screening in Washington. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has written a letter urging folks to see the film starring acclaimed actress Imelda Staunton as the good-hearted cleaning woman who ends up in jail.
"I'm very happy for the film to stimulate any discussion," Leigh said, "but when you see it, you'll see it doesn't lay it on in very crude, black-and-white terms, and it's quite subtle. I don't want to bludgeon the audience with a propagandist's hammer."
And this is a year when movies that stir controversy - like Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" and Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" - have also been big at the box office.
"If we are accursed with that fate," Leigh said, "we'll just have to live with it."
I have been wanting to ask someone prochoice why Scott Peterson is on trial. Shouldn't men have the choice to murder with impunity, too?
Sounds like this movie maker would like to be the one "choosing" who deserves to live or die.
I CHALLENGE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU who reads this thread:
Go to Google Images and type in abortion. Take a look at what you get. (This may be hard to see.)
I would post these pictures but I do not want to get banned.
Then you can send the link to your pro-abortion friends and enemies, along with this article.
You see, the argument for destroying human life is in the fact that abortion is destroying human life.
May God each of those babies whose destroyed bodies are out there for us all to see. They are buds in the Garden of the Lord.
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