6351 Week 4 Discussion 1

Logan Family Episode 4

Logan Family Episode 4 Program Transcript

FEMALE SPEAKER: Ebony and I have been talking about what's been going on. And I know she's been getting your differences of opinion. So I thought it would be a good idea for us all to meet and talk about her choices and the implication of those choices.

MRS. JOHNSON: You are the reason we are here. Maybe you'd like to go first. What choices you think you have? I'll tell you what choices you don't have. You have this baby, and you want me to take care of it. I can't afford it. I am done raising kids.

FEMALE SPEAKER: Mrs. Johnson--

MRS. JOHNSON: No, you want to talk about choices. So let's talk about choices. You don't have any but to not have that baby. That's what I think. Where are you going to live? Because we are not going to have another baby in my house.

FEMALE SPEAKER: Mrs. Johnson--

MRS. JOHNSON: And where do you think you're going to get the services that you need? When I was pregnant with you I was on Medicaid. But it was nothing, and it only lasts a few months. Men tell you what they want. But when it comes to children, women do the raising, the worrying, making ends meet. Listen to your mother. Get an abortion.

EBONY: I don't know.

MRS. JOHNSON: An abortion is a hell of a lot cheaper than it's going to be to work 16 years to feed and clothe and raise that child, Ebony.

EBONY: Will you stop talking about money? It's a baby, and it's in me. It's my choice. And I don't know what to do.

MRS. JOHNSON: You're right. It's your choice. I just don't want you to end up like me, be a single mom at your age, just like my own mother was. I want you have all the things I didn't get, college, a good job, that's all. I just want you to have better.

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Logan Family Episode 4

Music by Clean Cuts

Original Art and Photography Provided By: Brian Kline and Nico Danks

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