Pro-life vs. Pro-choice

Wow what an interesting documentary. 12th and Delaware was definitely unlike any other film that I have ever seen. I really liked how it really wasn't bias towards either side of the argument. It showed a really fascinating case where right there on the same street you could see people who really felt strongly towards one side or the other. From the very beginning we couldn't tell if we were trying to be brought to one side or the other. I think I can pretty surely say that a majority of our class is of course pro-choice so I couldn't help but of course agree with what the people from the abortion clinic were saying. It was really easy to see the people from the Pregnancy Care center as crazy and just clearly out of their mind. The beginning made it seem like the people from the Abortion Clinic were these mysterious rich doctors that didn't care about rallying back. So needless to say I think we were all excited the moment they showed the shot from inside the closing garage door. We really got to see a personal in with both people from both sides of the street. Each felt so strongly affected by the decisions of these women to either get abortions or not. I for sure had shivers through a good portion of the film when the anti-abortion people were promising the women who were considering abortion money and other financial help. The tactics that the anti-abortion people were using were unbelievable and really just made me want to cry for the lies that the women were being told. So much of what they were preaching had no credibility. However as easy as it may be for me to think the women are being ignorant for being so easily convinced to have the baby instead of going through with the abortions would be wrong. Clearly when a woman is in such a state of extreme confusing and stress almost anything could possibly persuade her to choose not to get an abortion when she is having multiple people yelling at her that she is doing wrong or that she will instantly regret what she is about to. The hardest part for me was watching these people tell so many lies to the women. When the one man protester said that women don't have a choice about there decisions about there own bodies, I wanted to get up and find him and honestly hurt him. It just made me cringe.