Posted on 01/25/2013 2:36:27 AM PST by Kaslin
The NBC series "Parenthood"' has drawn raves from TV critics this season for a storyline about a 40-something mother fighting cancer. Then on Jan. 1, NBC asked viewers to tune in the following Tuesday for an "unforgettable" new episode. A teenager would get an abortion at Planned Parenthood. Such is NBC's definition of "parenthood."
Drew, one of show's leading teenager characters, has an ex-girlfriend named Amy who comes back to tell him "I'm pregnant." The high school seniors go to the Planned Parenthood clinic, and the scene plays like a political commercial.
The counselor says, "If you decide to continue the pregnancy, we'd be happy to refer you for prenatal care. Of course, there are resources for teen moms who decide to raise a child. Adoption is also an option for you to consider. Now, if you decide to end the pregnancy, you have two options." But then NBC swells the sensitive guitar-strumming music up. They don't really want viewers to hear the abortion pitch. Oh, the irony.
The couple returns to the car. Says Amy, "Well there's only one option, right?" Drew replies, "That's not the only option." But Amy is traumatized: "If I have this baby, my life is over!" You can almost feel her channeling her inner Barack Obama. She doesn't want to be "punished with a baby."
Drew isn't so much pro-life as he is pro-Amy, wanting to convince her he supports her choices and hoping for a future with her. "Look, obviously I'm gonna support you no matter what. That's all I'm saying." This neatly matches the laughable new Planned Parenthood slogan, selling the idea of their neutrality on abortion: "Care. No matter what."
Care to murder a child if you believe the fetus to be a child?
The girl blankly insists, "I need help coming up with the money." Guess what Planned Parenthood called it on Twitter? A "refreshing" episode about "the real issues teens face."
After the off-camera abortion, Drew drives Amy home and asks if he can call later. She thanks him for the ride, but says she needs "a lot of space." At the episode's end, he arrives home crying and falls into his mother's arms. Is the crying from the trauma of the abortion? Or is he just distraught at being dumped by the girl? NBC ends the show without any actual explanation.
Of one thing we can be certain. NBC will never portray him as guilt-ridden for taking the life of his own child.
The next week's episode skipped this life-and-death chapter completely, but not for long. On Jan. 22, the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade abortion decision, the story arc wrapped up in a brief scene placed smack-dab in the middle of the show. Drew shows up on Amy's doorstep and says he's been accepted to college at Berkeley. She says she's been accepted to Tufts in Boston. With the realization that this "love" will never last, Drew gives Amy a hug and they say they'll never forget each other, and he leaves. Life goes on -- for them, anyway.
At the end of that episode comes the obnoxious feint toward "balance." Two adult characters smile at a sonogram of their unborn baby. They're apparently old enough to be "punished" with it.
The abortion plot gets sillier if a viewer rewinds back a few episodes to November to the beginning of this "unforgettable" plot. Seemingly out of nowhere, Amy shows up at Drew's home and agrees to sex with the boyfriend she had freshly dumped just because she felt sorry for him that his aunt was suffering with cancer. "Reality," 90210-style.
This isn't the only recent teenage abortion on TV. In 2010, NBC's "Friday Night Lights" featured a high school freshman getting an abortion after her high school principal hinted at that "choice." It's not a coincidence that both episodes were written by the same man -- Jason Katims. He told Entertainment Weekly in 2010 NBC offered "minimal drama" in reviewing the episode. "I honestly felt surprised that there wasn't more of a conversation about it."
Entertainment Weekly felt compelled to editorialize back then on behalf of more TV abortion scenes: "That there was so little uproar around the episodes proves we may be ready for a real discussion that television can lead -- if it so chooses." But only if that "discussion" is stilted toward sexually rambunctious children killing their unwanted babies.
NBC entertainment = NBC news division = Democratic Party. The lines are no longer blurred.
This goes all the way back to Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Nothing new.
They want as many peoples’ hands dirty with abortion as they can get; despite the fact that it often ruins them mentally, they feel it will ensure that it remains legal forever. I’d love to be a fly on the wall as these baby-murdering girls (or their complicit boyfriends) age, and have to deal with hordes of children chattering in foreign tongues.
“If I have this baby, my life is over!”
If you don’t have that baby, “your people” are over...
Movies are finally getting financed by Conservatives. Until Wealthy conservatives start contributing towards conservative tv shows and news stations, we really can’t complain that the liberals put their money where their beliefs are. Complaining is fine but nobody really does anything.
Sadly, “shame”, like modesty, common sense, responsibility,
sacrifice, truth....are just words that mean nothing in todays world.
Beam me up, I’m ready!
I realized how dark modern morality had become when the 16/17 year old daughter of a friend was pregnant. The girl’s father had just died. The teenager was adamant of keeping the baby, not wanting more death in the family. The mother was freaking out that her youngest was ruining her life. They acted as if there were NO other options.
I’d tried to mentor the girl the past, so I contacted her after she’d moved out of her mother’s home. I provided her with information on several adoption agencies near her, those that would pay for living expenses and such if she needed it, an adoption attorney and related resources.
The girl called her mother, livid. Then I was at the receiving end of two furious women. One was angry that I was undermining her daughter, suggesting she be pregnant in high school. The other was angry I was telling her to give away the baby, though we’d both agreed it was very hard for a girl in school to handle a baby and she wanted a two parent family and the baby daddy was an irresponsible jerk.
On the plus side, the girl found enough help to live somewhere until she had her own daughter. Then she moved back in with Mom.
But it was bizarre to be the focus of such hatred. To suggest adoption to a pro-abort was to be undermining her “choice”, though giving the baby to a stable family let the mother move on in life. Suggesting adoption to the girl who grew up with the image of the single mother making Christ-like sacrifices they endure for the good of their children and supposed superiority of them over partying childless was to denigrate her choice. As if having the baby and putting it up for adoption was EVIL, but raising it at 17 was OK.
Until Wealthy conservatives start contributing towards conservative tv shows and news stations, we really can’t complain that the liberals put their money where their beliefs are.
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So true.
Do you really, really believe there is a different outcome? I think that Jean-Paul Sartre worded it best (though not referring to the current situation): "Les jeux sont fait." This can be translated to "the die is cast."
But, then again, I am a pessimist and you may be an optimist.
“If you decide to continue the pregnancy, we’d be happy to refer you for prenatal care. “
Why? There is nothing of value there in your eyes.
Irony can be so ironical.
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Those who do not procreate, do not get a say in the second generation after them.
That sounds really great, except for the fact that I’m a high earner whose burdensome tax rate is financing the education (and a lot of other things) for that second generation. Just sayin’.
this is what really takes the lives of so many babies..it is not guns....and the tools of this trade are not outlawed...they are used every day....from Roe vs Wade 55 to 60 million lives have been lost
Evil does that... Satan convinced 1/3 of the angels to go with him when he was kicked out.
Anyone in the dramatized situation will have a couple of paths to pursue, post-abortion. They can repent of their murder and seek God’s forgiveness, or they can spend the rest of their lives denying they did anything wrong, justifying their “choice”, and denying God’s right to judge them.
You’ll find that most “pro-aborts” have chosen the second path. It’s not that they want the “option” in the future, but they want to justify their “choice” in the past.
“Do you really, really believe there is a different outcome?”
It’s up to us; when France fell in 1940 the generals lamented they hadn’t had enough children; their opponents, rising from the ashes of defeat in 1918, did.
As far as optimism, I agree with Pope Benedict XVI in a comment he made as Cardinal Ratzinger (discussing the birth dearth in Europe): How do we lament the passing of people with such a hand in their own demise?
“It’s not that they want the “option” in the future, but they want to justify their “choice” in the past.”
Well put; I also believe many people don’t want the option removed for urban blacks. In fact, they want it mandated.
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