Thanksgiving has come early this year. The dialogue comes from the movie Lifemark, currently in a limited run at theaters. It’s a true story of adoption. Lifemark was inspired by the documentary I Lived on Parker Avenue, which chronicled a young man (David Colton) as he journeyed to meet his birth mother and father. (The abortion clinic that Colton’s birth mother walked away from in Indiana is on Parker Avenue.) The words above come from when they finally met.
Lifemark doesn’t sugarcoat the pain that is involved in separation or the emotional uncertainties. At the same time, it presents the blessing a child can be to both a couple and a young mother who is not prepared to raise the baby within her. Since the Mississippi abortion case that ultimately ended Roe v. Wade was argued before the Supreme Court, we’ve seen some hostility to adoption as an option for a pregnant abortion-minded woman. Lifemark shows quite clearly how it can go from a non-option to transformational for all involved — most especially the child who is allowed to be born.
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