{"id":26948,"date":"2012-11-21T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=26948"},"modified":"2012-11-21T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:25:17","slug":"promoting-life-in-the-movies-movie-review-of-october-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/promoting-life-in-the-movies-movie-review-of-october-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Life in the Movies: Movie Review of October Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is clearly November, which is National Adoption Month, and the movie October Baby came out on DVD recently. My husband and I finally had some time over the weekend to watch a movie. We have been so busy we hadn\u2019t had time to squeeze in a movie in over two months.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We decided to watch the October Baby movie for the first time this weekend. Honestly, I was expecting a little\u00a0cheese, but it did not have much to my surprise.<\/p>\n

To warn you, there are spoilers in this blog\u2026<\/p>\n

First, the cinematography was beautifully filmed. The plot unfolds and is about a girl, Hannah Lawson, who\u00a0suffers from severe asthma, epilepsy and depression. While in college, she finds out she was\u00a0adopted and finds an even greater surprise. She was a failed abortion.<\/p>\n

Through the discovery of being a failed abortion, she finds out she had a twin brother who died 4\u00a0months after their birth, because of the complications from the failed abortion.<\/p>\n

Hannah decides she need some answers and begins to search for her birth mom. She decides to go on\u00a0a trip with her friends, who are willing to stop in the town, where her own failed abortion took place. A\u00a0combination of adventure and romance ensues.<\/p>\n

This is a very touching story about forgiveness, here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n

For Hannah, it\u2019s because she suddenly has to find forgiveness for being unwanted by her birth\u00a0parents, and by society in a sense, because the abortion attempt was allowed to take place by a\u00a0doctor.<\/p>\n

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For Hannah\u2019s birth mom, Cindy Hastings. Hannah eventually finds her and has to come to terms\u00a0with the possibility her birth mom will never want her.<\/p>\n

My favorite scene is when Hannah is asked by a police officer, \u201cWhat will you say to your birth mother?\u201d\u00a0She responds with \u201cI don\u2019t know. This question is the question I often wonder what the 53 Million\u00a0babies would say. When Hannah finds her birth mom, Cindy\u2019s office, she simply leaves her a note\u00a0written<\/p>\n

\u201cI forgive you.\u201d<\/p>\n

I believe truly this is what they would all say, because they are with God and know God. We have a 53\u00a0million army of babies who have been aborted in heaven we can call on to pray with us to overturn the\u00a0laws of abortion.<\/p>\n

Cindy Hastings, Hannah\u2019s birth mother realizes at that moment she reads \u201cI forgive you,\u201d she has been\u00a0forgiven by God. In a commentary video, Chari Rigby, the actress who was Cindy Hastings, shares her\u00a0story which is similar to the character she portrayed. I have included a link of her actual testimony here.<\/p>\n

Chari regrets her abortion to this day but is still able to find forgiveness through the loving mercy of God.<\/p>\n

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At the end the movie, I thought it was so moving, Gianna Jessen, who is an abortion survivor and\u00a0has cerebral palsy from the abortion attempt, sang the song in the closing scenes and credits.\u00a0Listen to her sing and hear a little about her story here,<\/p>\n

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High quality movies similar to this one, can promote the Pro-life cause to a new level, to communicate the value of life that cannot be denied.<\/p>\n

I am thankful for life this Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for?<\/p>\n

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