{"id":52462,"date":"2014-08-07T19:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T23:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=52462"},"modified":"2014-08-07T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T18:22:26","slug":"novelist-wants-new-book-to-cause-people-to-think-about-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/novelist-wants-new-book-to-cause-people-to-think-about-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelist wants new book to cause people to think about abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Kasey Jackson is a wife and pro-life advocate who, in the last two years, had twin boys and wrote the newly released\u00a0pro-life allegorical suspense novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blue-Memorial-Kasey-Jackson\/dp\/1499796978\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1407362556&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=blue+kasey+jackson\" target=\"_blank\"><em>BLUE<\/em><\/a>. The book is written in a a unique histopian genre as it intertwines a fictional story with real-life historical events, namely the implementation of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acts.co.za\/choice-on-termination-of-pregnancy-act-1996\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Termination of Pregnancy Bill<\/a> in South Africa in 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jackson believes that &#8220;<span style=\"color: #222222;\">art influences culture&#8221; and wanted to reach across the pro-life vs. pro-choice divide through her writing. The original inspiration for the story came &#8220;after\u00a0watching a documentary about the social justice issue of the harvesting of body parts of people with albinism in different areas of Africa.&#8221; Her motivation for the story &#8220;was to explore the subject of abortion in a way that was approachable from BOTH sides of the debate&#8211;pro-life and pro-choice&#8211;to hopefully open up a fresh discussion about this issue.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BLUE means to show what is currently going on in the abortion industry, and her next two books she plans to write &#8220;<span style=\"color: #222222;\">are meant to be a picture of what I imagine the abortion industry can BECOME if we don&#8217;t step up to do something about it&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i style=\"color: #222222;\">BLUE<\/i><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0is meant to feel realistic,&#8221; she says &#8220;and is intended to deeply humanize the abortion issue&#8211;to make the reader ask themselves &#8220;What if?&#8221; Even if someone identifies as pro-choice, it would be difficult for them to justify the actions of the antagonist in the story. But the parallels and similarities of the antagonist&#8217;s actions compared to the actual motives and actions of the abortion industry in our society today are evident in this story, and are difficult to overlook.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52464\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BLUEbyKaseyJackson.jpeg\" alt=\"BLUEbyKaseyJackson\" width=\"2061\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BLUEbyKaseyJackson.jpeg 2061w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BLUEbyKaseyJackson-247x300.jpeg 247w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BLUEbyKaseyJackson-577x700.jpeg 577w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2061px) 100vw, 2061px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The parallels are clear, and after reading this book myself, I would recommend it. BLUE causes you to think about the issue of racism as well as abortion, and intertwines fiction with fact to create a unique histopian story that feels like it could be real.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson&#8217;s hope is that pro-life readers will be &#8220;<span style=\"color: #222222;\">moved by the revelation of the last page of\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"color: #222222;\">BLUE<\/i><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0as I was when I discovered it&#8221; and that all readers &#8221;\u00a0think&#8211;even if for the first time&#8211; about abortion.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">What is on the last page? How does Jackson reach across the divide and include both sides of this debate? You can find out by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blue-Memorial-Kasey-Jackson\/dp\/1499796978\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1407365901&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=blue+kasey+jackson\" target=\"_blank\">purchasing the book on Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kasey Jackson is a wife and pro-life advocate who, in the last two years, had twin boys and wrote the newly released\u00a0pro-life allegorical suspense novel BLUE. 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