Review: Unplanned - Alana Terry
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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