{"id":5204,"date":"2006-01-23T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/keep-keeping-up.html"},"modified":"2006-01-23T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T13:03:08","slug":"keep-keeping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/keep-keeping-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Keep Keeping Up…"},"content":{"rendered":"

with the day’s events over at After Abortion. They are liveblogging and posting up a storm. <\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of storms, here’s a column by Chris Weinkopf in the LA Daily News<\/a> about the makers of the film A Distant Thunder<\/em>, about which we’ve blogged here a while back:<\/p>\n

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When Northridge residents Deborah and Jonathan Flora join the March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Monday, they won’t be carrying the usual signs or banners, but a burden – and a film. <\/p>\n

The burden is the agony, guilt and regret that still plague Jonathan nearly three decades after he helped procure an abortion for a girlfriend during his freshman year in college. To this day, he’s haunted by "the idea that I could have a 26-year-old son or daughter, especially when I look at those statistics that one in four people in that age group aren’t here." <\/p>\n

And from that burden springs the film. <\/p>\n

The Floras understand that if you want to change the culture, you need to engage it. So the couple put their talents – he’s a producer for Disney’s Buena Vista Home Entertainment, she’s an actress and former Miss Colorado – to work, creating an independent movie that raises chilling and provocative questions about our society and our attitudes toward unborn children. The movie is being screened <\/a>for activists and politicians alike in Washington this weekend, and it’s generating profound results across the nation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

with the day’s events over at After Abortion. They are liveblogging and posting up a storm. Speaking of storms, here’s a column by Chris Weinkopf in the LA Daily News about the makers of the film A Distant Thunder, about which we’ve blogged here a while back: When Northridge residents Deborah and Jonathan Flora join…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nKeep Keeping Up... - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/keep-keeping-up.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keep Keeping Up... - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"with the day’s events over at After Abortion. 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