Englewood, New Jersey, September 23, 2020
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Though abortion advocates laud themselves as champions of choice, the sad reality is that most women who procure an abortion feel like they had no choice due to pressure or threats from other people.
This tragic situation is the subject of a new 9-part documentary series, “In the Name of Choice,” released by the Missions and Evangelism Department of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, reports the archdiocesan press service.
The series, directed by Dcn. Adam Lowell Roberts, “has but one message,” the Archdiocese writes, “that about 80% of young women who have gotten abortions report that they felt like they had no choice but to abort their unborn child. They express that they felt they were either being forced by someone else to go through with the abortion (boyfriend, husband, father, mother,) or they did so to satisfy another person.”
“In other words, the decision to have an abortion was not really THEIR choice.”
The series features a number of agencies and Christian ministries, including many that are Orthodox, that present alternatives to young pregnant women who feel trapped, without any support.
The series also features the well-known Orthodox author Khouria Frederica Mathewes-Greene.
A study guide for parishes is forthcoming.
Watch the first part of the series here:
