New documentary exposes how foreign aid is actually hurting African women
by Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSite:
Several years ago, my wife and I spent some time in Africa for our honeymoon. One night after she’d gone to sleep in the tent, our safari guide and I stayed up chatting. He was about my age, and was telling me what it was like growing up in Tanzania and about his wife and children. He asked what I did “for a job,” and I explained that I worked in the pro-life movement.
I still remember the stunned look on his face when I explained that in Canada, abortion was not only legal, but legal until birth.
“This would never happen here,” he told me, shaking his head sadly.
It was that conversation I thought back to as I watched Obianuju Ekeocha’s new documentary, Strings Attached.
Ekeocha is a Nigerian-born pro-life activist and founder of Culture of Life Africa, and her journey into the pro-life movement is an interesting one. While working as a biomedical scientist in the United Kingdom, she saw Melinda Gates on television, talking about the desperate need for birth control in Africa. Insulted, Ekocha wrote an open letter to Melinda Gates, explaining that contraception is not what African women are asking for. It went viral, and a pro-life champion was born.
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