The annual Abortion Pipeline Project is back as part of the Athena Film Festival’s Creative Development Program, offering five pro-abortion writers grant money to create abortion-friendly films.
A collaboration involving Jess Jacobs, filmmaker and activist; Renee Bracey-Sherman, co-executive director of We Testify (an organization that aims to share stories about abortion); Dr. Gretchen Sisson, lead researcher of (Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health Care at the University of California San Francisco) ANSIRH’s Abortion Onscreen; and Melissa Silverstein, the artistic director of Athena Film Festival, the project also connects writers with “reproductive justice experts and writing coaches” to help facilitate the process. ANSIRH researches abortion and trains abortionists and has the Abortion Onscreen program that exists to research abortion stories in film and television and keeps a database of the shows and movies that depict abortion.
(L – Renee Bracey-Sherman; R – Jess Jacobs; Screenshot: Athena Film Festival/YouTube)
The selected projects are required to include a woman, trans, or non-binary character in a leadership role or position. They also “must center around an individual who has decided they will have an abortion and the potential obstacles to receiving a safe abortion.” Those obstacles could be “legal, medical, cultural, or religious.”
Of course, there isn’t likely to be any centering of the projects around the human individual who is being killed by abortion. The abortion industry and its allies are fond of ignoring the victim of abortion entirely — unless, of course, there’s a story to be told about how greatly that child might suffer if he or she were allowed to be born. In the latter case, the preborn child is humanized only to make the case for “compassionate” killing.
None of the groups or individuals involved in the project are likely to be open and truthful about abortion and none of the projects are likely to show what abortion truly looks like and involves — the violent, direct, and intentional act of killing a live human being in the womb.
The five projects chosen for last year’s Abortion Pipeline Project included the horror film “Baby” by Brandy Carie, “Bringing it Home” by Sabine El Gemayel, “Let Their Hearts Beat” by Emily Saunders, “Mambaby” by Xenia Matthews, and “Situationship” by Luisia Fernanda Alvarex Restrepo and Rahul Arun Chaturvedi.
The deadline to submit projects for consideration was originally February 3, but it has been extended to March 17. The annual film festival will take place at the pro-abortion Barnard College in New York City, which prides itself on its efforts in “leading the way in supporting” abortion.
