Response to Pro-Choice Argument
I just felt the need to re-post this for all to see because I think it's important. In response to the "pro-choice" issue...
It IS the woman's choice whether to keep her child or not - it's called adoption. Not to mention, people act like us women don't already have control over our bodies. We do. Have we forgotten that sex itself is a choice? We don't need to and shouldn't have sex if we can't handle the responsibility that comes with that.
People say that abortion is about defending women's rights but in actuality, if you really want to make it a women's issue I argue it's quite the opposite. I'm made to feel like I need to be "fixed" because I was born a woman and able to bear children. Pregnancy is a gift, not a burden.
Lastly, no one is being "forced" to have a child - if you don't want children, don't have sex. I don't care how much our society glamorizes careless sex as if it's a need as common as putting food in our bodies. Sex is supposed to be a beautiful experience between two people who love and are deeply committed to one another and ready to have children. If it's used any other way, the consequences are always ugly and in the likely event that a child is conceived, it's absolutely despicable that he or she is the one who suffers and has no right to life for the sake of the selfish parent(s) supposed "right" to live without the terrible, horrible burden of *gasp* having a baby inside for 9 months. Hmm, let's see... compromising 9 months of an adult's life for the entire life of another. Murder one for the convenience of the other. Make one person's life a little easier by destroying another's life. Does that really seem like the right thing to do?
Of course, in the rare cases of rape (only 1% of abortions mind you), I entirely sympathize with the mother. Rape is one of the most terrible things a person can experience but it still doesn't make abortion acceptable. We can't be so relative - what if I were to say "well, this person did something bad to me, so I should be able to steal their car". Stealing is still stealing, wrong is still wrong. It doesn't matter what that person did. Don't steal. It's the same thing with abortion. It is much more painful to carry the guilt of killing your child than it is to have one. In fact, children do just the opposite - they bring us joy. That woman's pain could be completely erased the day that her child is born and she understands the true meaning of unconditional love when he stares into her eyes.
Bella is definitely NOT a "pro-choice" movie. As another user said, you can't be pro-choice just for the sake of being able to make a choice. The entire point is WHAT you choose - and whether or not you do the right thing. There are really only two choices: the child lives or dies.
The point was not that Nina could have gotten an abortion and chose not to - it's the fact that she made the RIGHT choice by keeping her child. And as we see later in the movie, because she did, Bella brought her joy.