Gotta love liberal Hollywood. The movie tries to justify killing an unborn baby because she was raped. It's their underhanded way to say that abortion is needed. You feel a little bit more at ease with the killing of an unborn baby conceived through rape, don't you? The writer of the story is slick, but not that slick.
I'm sorry, but killing an innocent unborn baby is never right.
Oh, thank you so much Jamaal. People everywhere really need more opinions from perpetually single men like you with religious afflictions who do nothing but park their a$$es in a classroom and in front of the television playing video games. By the way, how many times under different user ID's are you going to make this same comment on this board? A real sign of superior moral integrity there, hahahahahaha!!!!
shareActually, this has very little to do with "liberal" Hollywood. The film is based on a terrific book by John Irving (who is from New Hampshire, not California). Irving also wrote the screenplay.
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Agreed.
Perhaps the original poster is against someone having a tapeworm removed because...it's a "life that's growing inside you"
I have come here to chew bubble gum and to kick ass...and I am all out of bubble gum.
Perhaps the original poster is against someone having a tapeworm removed because...it's a "life that's growing inside you"You know, you're real good at putting words in other people's mouths which they never said. And it just shows how sick and perverted your mind is that you see no difference between a tapeworm and a living, breathing fetus. The sad truth is that many of you pro-death people would rather protect tapeworms than the unborn.
Wow talk about someone being sick and perverted and putting words into another's mouth.....why that's called "projection", big x.
Choice is just that, choice.....to have a baby and raise it or have an abortion is a woman's choice, not yours.
Anti-choicers and others like you are the ignorant ones.
Call yourselves "pro-life" but have an image of violence in your siggy....typical.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and to kick ass...and I am all out of bubble gum.
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It is just a collection of cells. You confuse abortion with infanticide. 70% of the population is pro-choice. Letting women decide for themselves to give birth or not is a choice that's here to stay. You may not like other women's choices on reproduction, but it's not your choice now is it?
So get off your high horse and find something else to complain about on these boards. I get so tired of this.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and to kick ass...and I am all out of bubble gum.
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Classic right? With the guns? Love these pro lifers... usually guarantees nothing more than a high school education.
shareOh, please. Heaven forbid a movie should show both sides of an argument. In addition to the pro-choice message, this film portrayed the most beautiful pro-life message anyone could ask for: all those wonderful little boys and girls at the orphanage who could have been aborted. Not to mention the main character himself who ultimately led a wonderful fulfilling life. How could a pro-lifer ask for a better argument to support their side? Despite what many pro-choicers and pro-lifers would like to believe, this is not a debate that can ever be won. That said, I thought CHR did a brilliant job of portraying both sides effectively.
shareI can understand both sides, but I do get upset when people say that I can't have an opinion because I'm a guy. Most everyone tried to get my 16 year old mom to abort me, except for my dad's mom. In the end, she won out and I'm alive because of it. I figure that when those in my family who believed that abortion was the way to go and that the solution was to have me brutaly murdered, I can have some opinion on abortion...
shareI completely agree with the original poster. I enjoyed this movie, it was very well written, but the abortion scenes bothered me. I am a mother of two beautiful little girls and with both of them I felt them kicking at a very early age, my oldest sucked her thumb during her ultrasounds at five months. Whether you like hearing it or not a fetus IS a baby and abortion is wrong.
shareAnd having your father's baby is "right"? Okay...
shareThat situation is one of the few where I would be more understanding of someone having an abortion. But, I would still say that I think it would be best to have the baby and give it up for adoption. I think abortion is murder, under any circumstance. And like someone said this movie uses such an extreme case to try and make its' point, this obviously does happen, but it is not the main cause of abortions. They 95% occur because of selfish, disgusting people who have no sense or morality.
shareI feel like even if a person is raped, or the baby is a product of incest, if you belive in no abortion that means NO ABORTION. Even for rape and incest babies. You can't play it both ways. And anyway, as someone previously mentioned, this had nothing to do with liberal Hollywood. John Irving wrote this book and screenplay. And the book is amazing. It changed my views about abortion. Even if abortion is illegal, people are going to have backalley jobs done by people who don't know what they are doing. They could end up dying by the hands of some hack-job and then we got two dead people. The book really is wonderful, it shows you how complex that life can sometimes be.
I personally think that this country needs to focus on taking care of the poor people that are all ready in this country and not worry about bringing more babies in that they won't take care of in later years anyway. But I am sure it is a much better solution to have them be born but later die in poverty.
And it doesn't even matter if you think that abortion is wrong or right. Ultimately, the main debate seems to be when life begins. Conception, when the baby can live outside of a mother without her fluids and such...
This past Sunday was Sanctity of Life Sunday at my church and we had a very long sermon on how babies are aborted. It is horrible, and I know that I will never do that. But can I tell other people that they can't? Again, if you are wanting to say, "What about the baby's rights?" Again. When does life begin? You can say what you believe but no one has been able to settle that yet.
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I feel like even if a person is raped, or the baby is a product of incest, if you belive in no abortion that means NO ABORTION. Even for rape and incest babies. You can't play it both ways.
I personally think that this country needs to focus on taking care of the poor people that are all ready in this country and not worry about bringing more babies in that they won't take care of in later years anyway.
Well, I think people who call abortion MURDER and consider it equal to purposefully killing a born baby or child SHOULD be against abortion in all cases, even in case of rape or incest. Regardless how the child was conceived it's still 'innocent' and should have much right as any other foetus or embryo.
So I think people that think abortion is murder are hypocrites if they want to allow it in case of rape/incest.
Personally, I am pro-choice.
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Yes it was. They tried to portray the complexity of the issue.
shareSeriously? Are you saying that having a baby because of rape, that you don't want, and will probably end up in an orphanage is right?
God forbid, I exude confidence and enjoy sex.
Maybe if you had a vagina, uterus and ovaries and were raped and impregnated by your own father your self-righteous judgemental opinion would matter. But you aren't, so maybe you should just shut it and stop being so obsessed with what happens in other women's uteruses. It's really creepy.
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