A woman and her family somehow wind up living in a depleted forest due to a series of unfortunate events outside of her own control, except for one mistake which is both her and her husband's fault. Due to this mistake, her husband leaves and is never heard from again, not wanting to deal with this mistake. Now the woman is left alone with her kids, barely surviving as it is. One day, the most beautiful, innocent deer comes across the woman's path. While the woman acknowledges that this may be the last deer that may ever cross her path and she would normally NEVER kill any animal, she knows that her family is struggling as it is and competing for such minimal resources with another creature takes away from the sustenance her family could be provided, so she decides she wants to kill the deer. Luckily, an environmental activist walks through the forest for his daily exercise and comes across the family. The woman begs him for help and explains how she wants to kill the beautiful deer in the hopes of saving her family, but he scolds her and tells her how wrong it would be to kill such a beautiful creature even if it is a huge detriment to the survival of the family. The man offers no apparent help to the woman and walks away feeling proud of himself. The woman begins to question herself but realizes that she has to kill the deer for the survival of her family, even though she would never otherwise do so. Because of this decision, her family is able to continue surviving on the minimum resources that she would otherwise have to share with the deer.
If you empathize with the family who lost their main breadwinner because he could not deal with his mistake, you see the precarious situation many women in the U.S. have unfortunately had to deal with after an unwanted pregnancy occurs.
If you were appalled by the man who had no influence in the woman's family life but felt the need to make a decision for her anyways, then you should see why women are so offended that the government (consisting primarily of men) wants to make decisions for women. Why should I, one who does not necessarily approve of abortions, make a decision for millions of families who are in situations I will never understand. What makes me (or the man in this case) more qualified to make that decision for these women? If you cannot answer that question, then you see my pro-choice viewpoint.
If you were angry at the man for scolding her but offering no help and abruptly leaving the family to struggle, you understand why I believe Planned Parenthood is needed. If it becomes defunded, where will these women get the help that they need that is not being provided by those who want to take it away? The government wants to take it away but does not want to offer any help either.
If you agree with this woman's decision to kill the deer so that her family would not have to share the minimum resources they barely survive on with an additional creature, then you see why a woman may decide to have an abortion who would not normally decide to do so and why I believe Planned Parenthood should not be defunded.
If you understand that this decision was much more complicated than just life and death of the deer and making a "selfish" decision, you understand the internal conflict many women may have in making these decisions. Everything is not just black and white and taking away these resources (screenings for diseases, affordable health care) that many women cannot otherwise obtain (not entirely because of their own faults), would be a detriment to millions across the country.
