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New Novel Touches Teen Abortion Issue

Its good that authors can write about real issues and not just fantasy... especially when it means the difference between life and death.

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From:  The Pro-Life Infonet
Reply-To:  Steven Ertelt
Subject:   New Novel For Teens Tackles Abortion Issues
Source:   AgapePress; March 10, 2003

New Novel For Teens Tackles Abortion Issues

New York, NY -- Jodi Adams and Stan Taylor are high school friends in
Black Friday, a new novel that investigates the issue of abortion. Jodi
has a summer internship with the local paper, and Stan has had a recent,
very personal connection to abortion. Without debating or preaching, the
plot creates a context in which questions arise for the young heroes as
well as for the reader.

Seeking answers to their questions, Jodi and Stan go "undercover" to
investigate a local abortion provider. As the young heroes face danger and
death, teenage readers are taken into the dark recesses of the abortion
industry and its unsafe, dishonest and sometimes illegal practices.

Black Friday (W Publishing, 2003) is the fourth in the Soul Survivor
series, authored by Tim LaHaye and Bob DeMoss. "To the best of my
knowledge," says DeMoss, "this is the first and only novel written for
young people on the topic of abortion."

The Soul Survivor series should be on the reading list of every parent,
church youth worker, pastor, teacher and teenager. Other titles include
The Mind Siege Project, which mimics MTVs "The Real World." All the Rave
is on drug abuse, and The Last Dance reveals the dangers of chat rooms.

LaHaye and DeMoss are handing teenagers the truth in a format they can
enjoy; and they are handing adults an invaluable gift to use with their
teens. Fiction is an ideal vehicle to address moral truths with teens.
Jesus used stories to teach. Why shouldnt we?

Fiction allows DeMoss and LaHaye to address a critical issue in a format
that appeals to teens much more than do sermons, cut-and-dried facts,
lectures or debates. Even as it captures the imagination and the readers
attention with its fast-paced narrative, Black Friday subtly reveals many
shocking facts about the abortion industry.

For example, about one in ten "doctors" who perform abortions in America
never graduated from med school. It is not unusual for abortions to be
performed on women who are not even pregnant. Many abortionists double or
triple-bill taxpayers for abortions done on "poverty" cases under Title X.
A garbage disposal is the method of choice for discarding aborted babies.

DeMoss says one former abortionist told him that "such facts are
suppressed by the media primarily because the majority of journalists
favor abortion and would never want to publish a story which cast abortion
in a negative light."

There is probably not a teenager in the U.S. today who does not have at
least one friend or acquaintance who has had an abortion. DeMoss thinks
its time someone tells them the truth before they or more friends become
numbered among the victims.

"Isnt it time young people understood the truth behind the abortion
industry," DeMoss asks, "as well as the risks they would face if they were
to ever place themselves in the hands of an abortionist?" He and LaHaye
have done a masterful job handling that truth in Black Friday.

LaHaye was a prolific non-fiction writer well known in evangelical
Christian circles long before his name became a household word with the
mega-success of his and Jerry Jenkins Left Behind series. Even with 47
titles in 33 languages and more than 50 million books in print, young
adult fiction is a new genre for LaHaye.

DeMoss, on the other hand, brings a wealth of experience working with
teens. He was youth culture specialist for Focus on the Family for seven
years and is acknowledged as one of Americas leading authorities on
popular culture, media and entertainment issues. An internationally
acclaimed speaker, DeMoss has written 11 books.

Their credentials are impeccable. And their work in the Soul Survivor
series -- as we would expect -- is exemplary.

Issue Abortion Teen Touches New

Althought the material may be insightful, how many teens actually pick these books as reading material?