Posted on 01/05/2020 3:52:42 AM PST by Morgana
Netflix’s Soundtrack is a charming musical telling the story of the interracial relationship between musician Sam (Paul James) and artist Eleanor "Nellie" (Callie Hernandez), partly through flashbacks. The show’s charm, however, is ruined by the character’s selfishness centered around an abortion.
The first hint the show gives about an abortion is at the end of episode 6, “Track 6: Joanna and Eleanor,” when Nellie has just found out she’s pregnant. It also conveniently comes at a time when she and Sam are at an off-point in their relationship. “Whatever you decide I will support you, because it will be your choice,” says her mother, Margot (Madeleine Stowe).
When Nellie says she has something to tell Sam in the car, whatever it is is interrupted by a terrible accident. Viewers may presume that Nellie was telling Sam about the pregnancy, but we discover that she’s already had the abortion when going through her medical history at the hospital, Margot mentions “she recently terminated a pregnancy, surgically last week.”
Nellie’s father, Frank (Campbell Scott), assuming that Sam surely must know, let’s the abortion slip, which is how Sam first hears of it. Not only has he gotten into a car accident, the mother of his child had an abortion without any of his input.
What’s glaringly and completely absent from the show is any support for what Sam’s decision would have been. Any shock and disappointment Sam might be feeling is dismissed by his cousin Dante (Jahmil French) who visits him in the hospital.
Sam: Apparently, she might’ve an abortion last week and she didn’t tell me.
Dante: Shit, you think she’s two-timing you?
Sam: What? No.
Dante: If she had to get rid of it, it’s somebody else’s.
Sam: Fuck, are you high? ...
Dante: Listen to me, don’t freak out. Eleanor can do whatever she wants with her body and she doesn’t have to tell you nothing. You know De’Andra took the morning-after pill and didn’t tell me for seven months after. Women do things to protect themselves, you know that.
During an emotional reunion between Sam and Nellie, after she’s just gotten out of surgery from the crash, Nellie delves into the love she has for Sam, “us,” and herself. It’s also a way for the show to remind viewers that it’s all just about Nellie and her choice.
Sam: I know about the abortion.
Nellie: Sorry, I should have told you.
Sam: It’s all right, it’s… you know. It’s your choice.
Nellie: No, yeah, definitely my choice. Maybe a few months ago, not now. I was just scared to tell you ‘cause I was just afraid that…
Sam: What, that I would want it?
Nellie: No, more.
Sam: That you’d want to keep it because I’d want to keep it. El…
Nellie: I love you. I love us. But I’m just now starting to figure out how I’m gonna love myself. I’ve been doing what everybody else has wanted me to do for so long. And now that I am finally doing things that I want to be doing…
Sam: You meet me.
Nellie: Yes.
Is it really “all right,” though? Not only did Nellie have an abortion for frankly a selfish reason, but she didn’t even tell Sam. Would she have told him if not for the accident?
As it turns out, it’s not the only unplanned pregnancy Nellie and Sam face. In the show’s finale, Nellie finds out she’s pregnant, again, since the abortion supposedly re-started Nellie’s cycle and threw them off. It would seem the couple wasn’t using reliable birth control then, wouldn't it?
Ultimately, Nellie decides to keep this baby, who we presume is her present day son, Barry (Isaiah Givens). The life Barry is given is a precious and fortunate one, but Nellie choosing life for him does not negate the fact that she aborted her and Sam’s child and Barry's sibling, another African-American baby lost to abortion, as so many are.
It seems as though it’s a fictional character who had a fictional abortion, rather than the “star” of a program.
That doesn’t negate the heavy-handed “choice” propaganda, of course. Did it ever occur to these people not to fornicate?
Of course it’s propaganda. Telling the young skulls full of mush that abortion is okay and will not harm you mentally or physically. Just like having your tonsils removed.
This trend should raise a red flag for those who contend that promotion of contraceptives is a “solution” for abortion, out-of-wedlock births, or “overpopulation.” That ship has sailed, as the saying goes, and the culture has determined that it’s too much to expect.
One could look at nearly a century of statistics and see that promotion of contraception correlates with both a higher rate of abortion and a higher rate of out-of-wedlock births. However, a society that insists a man can turn into a woman by an act of will isn’t going to be persuaded by boring, hatey statistics. “Bad, bad statistics, hurt my feeling!”
Sexual continence is the only answer.
Her ‘choice’ was when she decided to spread her legs. You should not get a do-over after you concieve, otherwise it is murder.
My experience was that Planned Parenthood only paid lip service to advocating for the use of contraception. In reality, when their sales staff discussed contraception, it was to say how likely it is to fail, and how dangerous it is--neither of which are messages that promote the use of contraception. They talked about the rhythm method, in which they described the signs of ovulation and told us that that is the "safest" time to have sex and avoid pregnancy. Couple the misinformation about contraception with the message that abortion is perfectly safe and that there are even health benefits to having abortions, especially late abortions, they had a very strong abortion sales pitch.
I was subjected to this sales pitch in the 1970s. To this day, I have scarcely heard any abortion advocate even acknowledge the existence of contraceptives, much less advocate their use. About the only time they mention contraceptives is when they are running a campaign against a pro-life politician. Then they fear monger by claiming that Republicans want to make abortion *and contraceptives* illegal.
It is rather unfair to claim that the availability of contraceptives causes women to have abortions, when the abortion industry that is presumably providing them actually discourages their use. If pro-aborts were as adament about pushing contraceptives as they are about pushing abortion, the abortion industry would all but fold.
It is rather unfair to change my statement regarding correlation to a claim of causation that I did not make.
That said, your additional information is very interesting. I have not had experience with Planned Parenthood - different generation, perhaps.
Abortion is coercive. No love of any kind.
As long as artificial contraception is used, abortion will always be legal as the “Plan B” since no method is 100% guaranteed effective. The craziest thing is when libs rant that abortion is NOT birth control - it is precisely that.
I agree. A fornication society can’t function without virtually unlimited and inexpensive abortion.
It will never be outlawed because of that society.
They are nearing the 50th March for Life, and I don’t understand what the marchers think they’ll achieve; I attended years ago, but after seeing successive Republican administrations come and go I have accepted that neither party wants this outlawed. We’ll just let those inclined to murder their babies do so, while those who aren’t so inclined will keep their children.
I think the March for Life is a statement rather than an effort to influence the Federal government. It also lets the Supreme Court know that a substantial portion of the public has not accepted the unlimited abortion license as “fixed law.” The laws passed in the various states send the same message, even if they can’t be implemented due to Roe v. Wade.
I understand the statement it originally sent - but now I don’t think it says anything that isn’t represented just as powerfully as at the ballot box and through prayer. I don’t foresee any situation in which abortion will be outlawed; too few people desire that outcome. Too many people (including many who may never obtain one themselves) see it as a means of eliminating undesirable parts of the population.
Good point. I am surprised by how many people, both "left" and "right," are completely open in advocating the elimination - by "choice," of course - of discrete groups in our population.
It's ironic, too, that it's the "better" people who are statistically declining as a result of "choice."
I believe the “better” people are much more serious and successful about avoiding pregnancy altogether - but they want the legal option to kill a “mistake” if an unwanted pregnancy results.
That is why I’ve accepted it will always be legal - and why I’ve doubled down on openly calling it murder. The law won’t change, but hearts might. In some areas there are no abortion mills because the demand is 0 - regardless of the law.
Available data supports this. They're still disappearing, though.
Hormonal contraceptives are abortifacient. Surgical abortions are just the tip of the horrific iceberg. There may have been thousands upon thousands of times as many abortions caused by chemical warfare contraceptives as by the surgical butchers. God only knows.
I am so thankful I NEVER signed up for Netflix or the like.....utter libtard progressive SWJ, etc. filth and cancer, but yeah, some of you keep on with it cause of your binge habits, etc. GG.
In alternative news, the city council in the East Texas town where I live is considering becoming a
SANCTUARY CITY FOR THE UNBORN.
Signatures are being gathered & will be presented this Thurs, Jan 9.
Please pray for us.
Oh, I know - I wasn’t mentioning it as a positive thing at all - just a reason why abortion primarily targets minority/low-income areas.
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