Pro Choice or Pro Life

ABORTION IT'S YOUR CHOICE TO MAKE: MY BODY, MY CHOICE

For our activist project and film production, my group members and I came to the decision that we wanted to raise awareness on abortion through the production of a 5 minute film.

Our goal for this activist project was based on hard known facts as well as opinion of our interviewers; we wanted our audiences to be aware of abortion and the option available to them. Our activist project was decided to be broadcast through youtube so that not only Guelph-Humber students are aware of our activist project but as well as worldwide internet users. Instead of making a presentation in front of the class or setting up a table in the front lobby of Guelph- Humber like our fellow classmate.

I feel that Abortion is an extremely important issue that should be discussed mainly because many people are sexually active and may or may not be using the right form of protection. These people are being provided with myths rather than compare to hard known facts. In all truth, I admit that I am sexually active with my boyfriend of 2 and half years and there are times where I do not use any protection. Even though I am aware that I could possibly get pregnant as well as receive something from my boyfriend, even though I am aware of this fact somehow it does not affect my decision (stupid, I know).
The reason as to why I am not terrified of getting pregnant is because I was given certain 'myths' about pregnancy prevention from my friends who are also sexually active, myths such as:

• sex during my period, my eggs are being pushed out
  
• sex in the water, gravity.
  
• use of condoms will block out all sperms
• as long as the guy pulls it (penis) out before he needs to bus.

I am not the only person who are unaware of the facts and dangers of unprotected sex that could lead to pregnancy which would forced any individual to choose between abortion or caring for a baby for the rest of their life. The reason why my group decided to choose abortion as our activist project than safe sex is because safe sex is a typical topic where most individuals are aware of what safe sex is all about through their sex education courses. While abortion is a sensitive topic for most individuals and are not allowed to be discussed in school; our film will allow our audience to have an insight on their fellow peers opinion on abortion as well as giving reliable statistics on abortion.
I consider myself to be 'pro-choice' mainly because I believe that it is a women's body so it should really come down to her choice and that no one has the right to protest to her decision. I believe that being pro-choice is not murder but instead its another chance. In my opinion, if I were to get pregnant right now at this point in my life, I would most definitely considered having the baby and picturing myself as a mother at my age, but when it comes down to it I will resort to abortion, mainly because I know that I am financially, mentally and physically not ready to have a child of my own and that I would hate myself everyday if I were to have the baby and unable to provide a stable home for "my" child. I believe that having a baby, when an individual is not ready for one is considered to be murder; because the child will grow up feeling empty and alone, questioning why was they born.
As a group we worked together to find facts on abortion as well as the myths on abortion; as individuals, Devon suggested that she would do the editing of the film because of her knowledge in editing while Susan and myself suggested that we would be in charge of interviewing females and male participant. Our questions to them we fairly simple: Are you pro-choice or pro-life and why?
One of my main concern when interviewing people was the similar answers being provided to us; "I am not mentally or financially stable to care for a baby" or "abortion is murder" I found it difficult when people did not allow themselves to go in depth with their answers. One of our biggest concern with this project was my team members and myself, because Susan, Devon and myself are different people, our work ethics and ideas are also different which has caused problems and differences of opinion.
Overall, with this activist and film production project I believed that as a group we all worked hard on getting our issue across and our participation were also equal; no one did more work and no one did less work. Even though there were many issues that we had with one another, which I do not find appropriate to discuss, there were times where I felt verbally attacked by a certain group member that forced me to decide to take myself out of the group and project. In the end I believed that there will be many disagreements with my future coworkers where I will force myself to deal with and work with it.