Review: Unplanned - Alana Terry






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Unplanned (Kennedy Stern #1)

Review: Unplanned - Book #1 Kennedy Stern Series - Alana Terry - May 2015

This book was a timely read as I was scrolling last weekend through my kindle and came across this book, not knowing what it was about - I clicked into it. Turns out that Unplanned by Alana Terry was a CF edgy Teen/NA series featuring a young college girl Kennedy Stern. Why this book was timely, is that the day I read this book was the beginning of the Roe vs Wade case being overturned which as a result is making abortions in some states illegal and considered murder - just as if they had killed someone walking down the street. Myself, I am pro-life but I do acknowledge that there are a few cases where abortion in my mind is an acceptable course of action. I think it is something though that should be allowed because sadly the alternative is back-alley abortions which cause the death of the mother in a lot of instances e.g. septic, not done correctly, etc. Again, this is another case of the US going backward not forth into a world that is a massive contradiction at the moment as Hello, we accept LGBTQ+ and Black Lives Matter, etc but not Women's rights in terms of Abortion care which can be an actual life or death situation. It just doesn't make sense to me at all and as much as I wish I lived in the US - right now is one of those few times where I am thankful to be in a country like New Zealand. 
Anyway, back to the book "Unplanned" which as readers need to note was published and released in 2015 and we are in 2022 now. Unplanned introduces us to Kennedy whose parents are missionaries and she has lived in a small Chinese province for the past ten years and now is back home in the US studying at the local university. Kennedy has reconnected with a Christian family who is the Pastor of a church and good friends with her parents. They have started a pregnancy hotline and community center and trying to recruit Kennedy into helping. She reluctantly agrees and takes home the phone not expecting it to ring, but it will and it will be a 13-year-old girl on the end of the line. As the call goes on, Kennedy is really worried and knows the girl is somehow connected to the congregation. What will happen though when she connects the girl to a powerful political family whose stance is pro-life? Kennedy and the young girl will find themselves kidnapped as someone who wants the baby gone and will do anything to protect the family's image even if it means going to an extreme of a back-alley abortion.  This was quite a powerful read and one that does give you more views on the current state of the hot topic issue as it touches on a few points that translate into reality and the current situation of the abortion laws. As this is a CF read, it does have a huge input of religion and a strong Christianity view on the topic of abortion and body rights, which is brought up as a Christian I didn't mind reading about.

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