Film Reflection

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Introduction

“12th & Delaware” by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing is a documentary film set in an abortion clinic known as a Woman’s World Medical Center, and a crisis pregnancy center called Pregnancy Care Center. The film covers the center along with its patients within a year. The film premiered on 24 -January -2010. The clinic is located in One street corner in Fort Pierce. The mission of this clinic is to stop women from aborting through providing counselling services. Although the abortion clinic takes safety measures against threats of violence and disperses protesters, it actively conveys false information to women concerning the risks of abortion (Grady & Ewing, 2010). This paper provides my personal reflection on the “12th & Delaware” film.

Reflection of 12th & Delaware Film

The documentary starts with a woman trying to bring sense to the doctors by telling them that they can help society in other ways than providing abortion. “Life is precious,” she shouts to them. Abortion is seen as an act of killing. One of the protesters says that 95% of those who have aborted regret doing this act. He further tells those attending the abortion center that they won’t be different from the statistical figure (Grady & Ewing, 2010). Looking at why most women choose to abort, the women give almost the same reasons. Lack of jobs to cater to their unborn babies is one of the causes. The role of employment during pregnancy on reproductive risk is enormous, the pressure for responsibilities that may arise after giving birth has been seen to contribute to causing a woman to choose to abort. The reasons most frequently stated while in the clinic were that giving birth to a child would negatively affect their wok, education, capacity to care for dependents. They see abortion as less interfering with their lives than giving birth.

Young girls who get unwanted pregnancies have also been under constant pressure from their parents and boyfriends. The thinking that getting pregnant early is associated with being outcasts to the family, and the community sees them like sinners. Timing births and the need to control family size have also been connected to why women choose to abort. The standard answer in the film is that women want to have a small family that they can manage.

The anti-abortion clinic has a mission to save women from guilty and keep their babies. I was surprised that the Abortion clinic also targets those with physical and cognitive disabilities; they don’t care about the health of these people. While on the other side, the clinic finds ways to develop strategies to convince women why they must keep the pregnancy. I have learned some reasons women opt to abort as; women experience difficulty conceiving a pregnancy or carrying a pregnancy to term after previous pregnancy termination. The effects of aborting are that abortion might lead to infertility.

The health of aborting women is also at the main risk. The main risk is that after surgical abortion, the doctors have to eliminate the parts of the baby that have stayed in the womb; this enlightens my thoughts. Learning that surgery causes hefty bleeding, which causes loss of blood in the body and might end up causing the woman to die, is surprising. There is this lady who, despite being counseled, she went ahead to abort. Also, the protestors have it that abortion is against human rights. Abortion dramatically affects the overall community of the women who deliberately terminate their pregnancy. Abortion has been found to affect society psychologically and morally, which has long-term implications.

​The film confirms our learning that abortion affects human sexual activity. Legalizing abortion clinics is a significant concern; why should the authority allow people to abort? The protestors, which in this film are likely to be Christians, see the clinic as a way of removing the consequences of child rearing and thus causing increased sexual activities against their religious beliefs. Allowing women to abort is normalizing the killing of humans for convenience. This morally devastating culture shift is seen as a threat to life. Watching this film shows that abortion is one of the causes the society experiencing suicide cases. This relates to the teaching that human sexual activity significantly impacts our psychology.

Conclusion

The decisions to have an abortion are typically due to diverse and interrelated reasons. Human sexuality plays a significant role in human living. Borrowing from the 12th & Delaware film, people have different life goals. The anti-abortion clinic is against abortion, while the other clinic sees this as a business opportunity and justifies that women must be given the freedom to choose. The society has a role to play. Predominant economic condition, the attitudes, and behaviors of adults within the society strongly influence young people. Some might argue that abortion should be legalized due to the health complications of the mother. Social activities fundamentally determine how they drive everyone’s feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. Sexual and reproductive health training needs to be implemented in social education to increase adolescent sexuality and abortion knowledge to improve adolescents’ sexual health.

Reference

Grady, R., & Ewing, H. (Producers and Directors). (2010). 12th & Delaware. New York, NY: HBO Home Entertainment.