Actress grateful for positive response to pro-life play
Mexico City, Mexico, Jul 16, 2010 (EWTN News)
Mexican actress Laura Zapata expressed gratitude for the positive response to her play, “Life for Love” (Vida por amor), which is based on the conversion of abortion doctor Bernard Nathanson.
In the play, “the public encounters something they don’t expect. They say it is a moving work,” the actress told Desde la Fe, a Mexican weekly. “We have only had one run and we have already seen great things in Mexico. I can say that what it has done has been because of the Lord,” Zapata declared.
“Life for Love” recounts the conversion of Bernard Nathanson and Norma McCorvey, repentant abortionists and now defenders of human life. Nathanson, a doctor by profession, personally performed 5,000 abortions in the U.S., including one on his own wife. McCorvey was the Jane Roe in the notorious case, Roe v. Wade.
Zapata said she was not motivated by success to write her play and that she was surprised by the reception it has received. “Rather I did so because … someone has to talk about this. I don’t agree that young people should be encouraged to see pregnancy as a problem, as if having an abortion were like getting a manicure. Someone has to explain what an abortion really is,” she said.
The play debuted in the city of Chihuahua. Zapata is now looking to bring it to Mexico City and to middle schools, universities and high schools, “where young people can see it, because they have to reconsider how they think about life and protecting the weakest of the human race.”
Zapata recalled the day on which abortion was legalized in Mexico City. She was meeting with colleagues and exclaimed, “How can it be that I live in a place where it is illegal to smoke but legal to abort!”
That’s when she felt inspired to write a play on abortion. “I didn’t even think about it, it was a desire that came from my soul, from my spirit,” she said.
She said that in her play, “Nathanson and McCorvey walk us through the satanic world of abortion to their conversions. They experience a spiritual conversion after going down the road of alcoholism, drug addiction, self-help books, psychoanalysis and suicide attempts.”
In the play, “the public encounters something they don’t expect. They say it is a moving work,” the actress told Desde la Fe, a Mexican weekly. “We have only had one run and we have already seen great things in Mexico. I can say that what it has done has been because of the Lord,” Zapata declared.
Zapata said she was not motivated by success to write her play and that she was surprised by the reception it has received. “Rather I did so because … someone has to talk about this. I don’t agree that young people should be encouraged to see pregnancy as a problem, as if having an abortion were like getting a manicure. Someone has to explain what an abortion really is,” she said.
The play debuted in the city of Chihuahua. Zapata is now looking to bring it to Mexico City and to middle schools, universities and high schools, “where young people can see it, because they have to reconsider how they think about life and protecting the weakest of the human race.”
Zapata recalled the day on which abortion was legalized in Mexico City. She was meeting with colleagues and exclaimed, “How can it be that I live in a place where it is illegal to smoke but legal to abort!”
That’s when she felt inspired to write a play on abortion. “I didn’t even think about it, it was a desire that came from my soul, from my spirit,” she said.
She said that in her play, “Nathanson and McCorvey walk us through the satanic world of abortion to their conversions. They experience a spiritual conversion after going down the road of alcoholism, drug addiction, self-help books, psychoanalysis and suicide attempts.”