I recently found this website while surfing around the net: http://www.birthornot.com/
The website allows anyone to vote on whether or not the woman running the site should abort her baby. She claims she will do whatever the majority of people vote for. It is clearly designed to be dramatic and controversial. She posts regular updates showing ultra-sound pictures of her unborn child and tell what organs it has developed so far. She states that the purpose of the site is to allow people to turn their view on abortion into action, in the most direct way.
Despite the obvious objection that such a major decision should not be placed in the hands of strangers, does this "performance" serve a purpose? I think it can have the potential to cause people to really examine their beliefs critically. In many ways, the drama in films has caused us to view death dispasionnately: we are confronted with fictional deaths more frequently that real ones. This may cause a reverse in the trend: if someone really supports abortion, they will have to take responsibility for the death of a baby, and if they are really against it, they will have to make the committment to tell lots of people to vote against it. If people decide to do nothing, it may reveal their selfishness.
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