Starting today, a web-based video series entitled “Bump” will begin, featuring three fictional women who are trying to decide whether or not to get an abortion. Viewers will then VOTE, American-Idol style, to determine whether the women will abort their child. I want to stress that all of the women are FICTIONAL, so no one will really get an abortion. The purpose is supposedly to provoke positive discussion–which will also take place from viewers on the site–about the “choice” that pregnant women face of whether or not to keep her baby.
My first reaction was to be appalled. My second reaction was that maybe this could be a forum for pro-lifers to make their case, as well as to flood the voting. What do you think?
Here is the site: Bump+ | Share your story. Join the conversation..
HT: Kathleen Parker, whose reflections about this are worth reading.
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