The Malayalam movie Sara’s that came out recently is a sorry tale of a self-centered girl whose world revolves around herself – around her pleasure and ego – and who can think no further than that. It is a sorry tale.

This is not a review of the movie, but a look at the fundamental concepts and ideas that are trying to be sold through this sorry spectacle.

It Is A Woman’s Body and She Can Decide What To Do

There is no new idea here, but the old worn-out and false idea that the baby growing inside the woman’s womb, is the woman’s body.

What is growing inside the woman’s womb is not the woman’s body. What is growing inside the woman’s womb, is another human being, a small baby with its own genetic code, its own will and its own personhood.

So what is being done in an abortion is not the removal of a part of the woman’s body, but the killing of the woman’s own child who is growing in her womb [Abortion Photos here and here – Please be warned that the photos are very graphic].

What is being done is that, what is supposed to be the most wonderful, safest and most loving place in the world, is being turned into a butcher’s chamber.

A Baby Is Primarily A Woman’s Responsibility and Therefore She Can Decide Whether She Wants A Baby Or Not

Of course the woman can decide if she wants to have a baby or not. That is not the issue at stake. Nobody is contesting that. What is at issue is the implicit claim that a woman can decide to kill the baby she has conceived.

A woman cannot choose to kill her baby. She can choose if she wants to co-operate in bringing life into the world. She cannot choose to kill the life, after she co-operates in bringing it into the world.

Let us look at the other aspects of the claim.

1. The claim that the baby is primarily the woman’s responsibility

The baby is not primarily the woman’s responsibility. The baby is equally both the father’s and the mother’s responsibility. The father is not supposed to be on some sort of a different mission. He has equal responsibility for the child and his primary responsibility is raising his child to be a holy, virtuous, productive and loving person. It is just that the father’s and the mother’s responsibilities are exercised in typically different ways. The father is typically responsible for bringing in the resources which allows for meeting the material needs of the family as well as the primary spiritual leader in the house, while the mother is more the person who cares for and takes direct care of the child when the father is working to generate an income to sustain the family.

2. The claim that if you are primarily responsible for the baby, then you can decide what to do with the baby.

What is meant by the claim that “you can decide” is that “you can decide to kill the baby or not”. Responsibility for the person is the responsibility to look after, care for and to act in the best interests of the baby and not to kill the baby if you want. If this were the case, then children could be killed as long as they are dependent on the parents (i.e. until they get their own job), parents could be killed by children in their old age, non-working wives could be killed by their working husbands and vice versa (because the wife is also responsible for the husband) and citizens could be killed by the government. This is an illogical, stupid, fallacious and morally bankrupt claim.

Thulli Kalikunna Kunji Puzhu

This, I think, is perhaps the most morally abhorrent idea.

What is being done, is trying to focus the viewers attention on the physical size and shape of the child in its earliest stages of development and thus to sell the idea that the child is a worm. It seeks to totally bypass the question of the nature of what is growing in the woman’s womb.

Now, if the child that is in the womb is a “thulli kallikunna kunji puzhu”, then what are the parents expecting after 9 months of pregnancy – some sort of “thulli kalikunna velliya puzhu”? Is that what they are expecting? No.

If what is inside in the initial stages is a worm, what will come out later will also be a worm; just a bigger one. The nature of species does not change during the course of the pregnancy.

Therefore, if what comes out later is a human being, what is inside the woman’s womb is also a human being.

What is inside the woman’s womb is a human being in development, a human being who is developing and growing [as can be seen from the chart above and the image below].

It Is Better Not To Be A Parent Than To Be A Bad Parent

This is another illogical, inconsistent and morally bankrupt idea.

The idea that is being sold is that if you kill the child, you are no longer a parent and that this is better than being a bad parent.

However, this is a wrong idea. When you have conceived of a child, you can no longer not be a parent. You are already a parent and there is nothing you can do to change this fact. 

Abortion does not make you a “non-parent” anymore. It just makes you a parent that killed your own child. And this very act makes you a very bad parent; precisely the thing that is being sought to be avoided.

If you take this line of reasoning further, it also means that you can kill your children [who are already born] at any time you realize that you are not being the parent you should be. Another morally bankrupt idea.

The best you can do then is to decide to become a good parent.

If you decide that you don’t want to do that, then the next best thing you can do is to give the child for adoption; that the child may be loved and brought up by others, so that they become a valuable human being who contributes to a good human community. You also help alleviate the grief of parents who desire children but are not able to conceive. You give them someone invaluable, perhaps their most precious treasure.

On the contrary, if you follow the reasoning of the movie that it is better to kill someone who could turn out bad, than to risk them turning out bad [in the case of babies], then, by this logic, it would be better to kill these self-centered, selfish and evil adults who are willing to kill even their own children in order to have their way [because they are not just potential evil, but actualized evil]. Again, a morally bankrupt idea. But see how the bankrupt idea turns on its own makers.

Career Is More Valuable Than A Child

The notion that a career or a job is more valuable than a person is another illogical and morally bankrupt idea.

There is nothing on this earth that is more precious and wonderful than another human being. Nothing.

All human activity exists for the purpose of human well-being.

Work doesn’t exist for its own sake. All work and careers exists for the sake of one purpose – to provide for the well-being of human beings.

There is nothing greater than raising and forming a person for eternity. There is no greater purpose than raising and forming a soul for eternity.

The Notion That You Can Kill A Baby In Your Womb For The Sake of Career

You cannot kill another person, let alone an innocent human baby. However, let us just briefly look at the notion promoted by the movie.

1. If you follow the notion that a baby in the womb can be killed for the sake of career, then why can’t any other human being be killed for the sake of work [because all human beings have the same nature and therefore the same dignity]? Can you also kill your other children, old parents etc. if they come in the way of your career? Can you kill other co-workers or superiors who come in the way of your career – let’s say somebody is deliberately holding you back because they don’t like you or somebody is occupying a position which prevents you from being able to occupy that position? If you cannot do this, then why can you kill your own child for the same goal?

2. And can you be killed for the sake of someone else’s career goals? If you say that you cannot be killed for the sake of someone else’s career, then why can an innocent baby be killed for the sake of your career goals? That is pathetic.

This is not progressivism, but barbarism.

The Woman’s Happiness Is What Matters

The unspoken idea here is that a job can make the woman happy.

A job – a contractual relationship in which you are paid money, if you do what you are instructed to do – cannot make a woman happy. A job never cares about you, but only what you can do to increase the company’s bottom line profit. Such a relationship can never make a woman happy.

Applause, honor and fame cannot make a woman happy, because honor is something which is in someone else’s mind and happiness is something which is inside you. If this were the case, then the famous would not be searching for happiness through pleasure, sex and drugs and would not be suicidal [rock stars come to mind]. 

It is a loving human relationship, than can make the woman happy. This is the very thing which the child offers, which a job can never offer.

Flawed View Of The Ultimate Aim Of Life

The movie puts forward the idea that the ultimate aim in life in contributing something of value so that people remember us after we die, as opposed to people remembering us through our children.

What does it matter if people remember you after you die or not. You are dead and what they think of you does not affect you in any way.

You would not even know what they think of you – if you follow an atheistic mindset.

If you are religious and believe that you would know what others think of you, still it would not matter what people think of you. What would matter is if you are in heaven or hell. If you were suffering in hell and people said good things of you, what would it matter? Would it take away your eternal suffering? No.

People thinking well of you now does not help you in any way. People thinking well of you after you die matters even less.

What matters is that when you stand before God to provide an account of your life, that He thinks well of you.

“Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell” [Mathew 10:28].

The Promotion of Sexual Promiscuity

The movie also promotes sexual promiscuity [sleeping around with the guy when on tour, when she is not married to him, giving the idea that it is fun].

It further glorifies the guy, by saying that he has been sleeping around and is very experienced and is hence desirable. What a pathetic idea – as though some sort of expertise and experience in the physical act of sex is the greatest thing of value in a relationship.

Now, I don’t know of any woman who finds guys who are sleeping around desirable. They may desire to tame such a guy and have him under their spell, such that he does not stray any more. The reason for this desire, is that, this gives the women a sense of superiority, because she imagines that this makes her superior to all other women [and all beautiful].

This however, is a false hope. No woman is all beautiful, such that the promiscuous man desires no other woman. Promiscuity is not overcome by encountering a beautiful woman, because there will always be other desirable woman – woman who are beautiful in ways that no single woman can always be superior in.

So, a sexually promiscuous man will always be sexually promiscuous and pursue other woman.

And sleeping around can seem fun on screen, but it is not fun in real life, when the person sleeps with you and then ditches you when he is bored of you or when you fall pregnant. Then life turns downhill very fast.

Happiness does not lie in a rush of blood to your genitals, in a higher heart rate and in the release of hormones. Human beings are more than bodies. Human beings are a composite of body and spirit, and a hormone release in the body cannot make a person happy. Happiness and joy are primarily experienced in the human spirit through being loving and being loved; in a genuine relationship in which the ultimate good of each other is desired [as opposed to momentary hedonistic pleasure].

Who Do These Ideas Benefit? Do They Benefit Women?

Who are these ideas [the ideas sold by the movie] good for? The ideas are good for almost nobody.

1. Women – These ideas are not good for women. Sexual promiscuity and killing one’s own child, runs against the deepest desires and instincts of women to be nurturers and care-givers, who deepest instinct is perhaps to be a mother and to feed her children from her very body. The ideas pushed by this movie invert these desires and instincts and seeks to make women murderers, through a false promise of fulfillment [through a job and through drinking, smoking and sexual promiscuity]. Motherhood is sometimes difficult, but it is also joyful, beautiful and deeply rewarding – becoming holy yourself and raising innocent souls to purity, holiness and everlasting joy.

2. Men – These ideas are not good for men either. The availability of women as objects for hedonistic sexual pleasure can seem alluring, but it only seems so. Promiscuity leads to a loss of trust between spouses, thus leading to friction, pressure, betrayal and heart break. It changes the relationship from a dynamic of trust and love to a dynamic of mutual suspicion, never ending competition, pressure and heartbreak. It also runs counter to the deepest instincts in a man to be a hero and to sacrifice him for the sake of those he loves and the weak who are dependent on him. It turns him from a protector to a predator.

3. Children –   Children also suffer, starting with being killed by their own parents. Then children who are born suffer from the tension and pressure of being in a family based on mutual suspicion, competition and rivalry. Then the children suffer from broken families [from the absence of parents at home, from knowing that their parents have children in other relationships], from abusive short term partners of their parents and generally have lower mental health outcomes and educational outcomes.

4. Society – Virtuous, -sacrificing and loving individuals who look after their families and who work for the common good are the glue that holds societies together. If we are to keep society together, these traits must be inherent to individuals. Such a society is better for all involved. The type of individuals that this movie encourages – self-centered individuals who only think about themselves and are willing to kill anyone for the sake of their pleasure and at the service of their power – are not the sort of individuals by which a healthy, good and prosperous society can be built. They are akin to being a cancer to society.

The ideology that this movie pushes is by no means new. It is the idea which is being pushed in the west for over 50 to 60 years, and it is the ideology which is bringing down those societies from their previous eras of prestige and influence. And if we don’t want our society to breakdown, we need to stop these toxic ideas right at the beginning.

The only people for whom this ideology is beneficial is for sexual predators, who want an endless supply of women whom they can use and discard.

Abortion Is Legal

1. If something is legal, it does not make it right or just. It was legal and a duty for Germans to kill Jews during the holocaust. The fact that it was legal and even mandated by the state did not make it right. Just as the holocaust is wrong, so is the killing of innocent babies wrong, irrespective of what anyone says.

2. Further, the state has a responsibility and duty to protect innocent human life. That is the fundamental duty of the state. There is no other duty which is more primary and fundamental than the protection of innocent human life. Everything else the state does is secondary. The state however has unfortunately abdicated that responsibility. The fact that the state has abdicated its most fundamental responsibility does not morally justify the killing of these innocent and fragile human beings.

Jolly [The Serial Killer]

As per the logic of Sara’s, what exactly is wrong with what Jolly did when she murdered six family members? She also had dreams and she killed those who stood in the way of her dreams.

If Sara is right to do that, why is Jolly wrong?

We All Know The Truth, But We Pretend That We Don’t

When we all take off our masks, with the exception of the ignorant few who think that what is in the womb is not a baby, we all know that abortion is the killing of a baby. But we are unwilling or unsure about our ability to control our sexual urges and just want this easy way out, so that we don’t have to bear the consequences and responsibilities arising from our actions. Therefore we pretend not to know what we know.

Summary

Is this the culture we want to create; a culture of self -centered people who are willing to kill for their own motives?

The idea that you can kill your own child for the sake of a few people applauding for you, is a shallow and sick idea.

Don’t buy it under the idea it is progressive. There is nothing progressive about it. It is a barbaric idea, a regressive idea and a diabolical idea. It is nothing more than a new manifestation of the ancient barbaric idea of child sacrifice to please the gods, for the sake of one’s position, power and prosperity.

The only difference is that there are no god’s anymore who give you position, power and prosperity. Position, power, prosperity and pleasure themselves are the new gods.