Posted on 11/16/2019 2:03:32 PM PST by Morgana
It turns out network television isn’t done lecturing us on abortion yet. We’ve had series after series come at us with pro-abortion stories, but NBC’s The Blacklist may have brought us the strangest case of them all. Let’s just say if this is where the propaganda is headed, liberals should stick to copying The Handmaid’s Tale.
The November 15 episode “Hannah Hayes” concerns the strange case of a kidnapped governor reappearing on the day of a new election. The governor, however, isn’t sharing any details of his abduction, forcing the FBI to investigate the crime on their own. The agents soon come across similar high-profile male kidnapping victims, learning that they all share the same politically conservative background. By narrowing it down, they find one victim willing to discuss what happened to him.
Here’s the part where it gets weird. It turns out that a doctor named Hannah Hayes (Stacey Roca) has kidnapped the men to surgically impregnate them. She inserts a uterus into their bodies, implants an embryo, and then holds them hostage until they can no longer abort under fetal heartbeat laws in their states. This is to protest her own treatment after she was raped and then apparently jailed for trying to defy late-term abortion laws to end her pregnancy.
If you think that sounds crazy, you should hear Hannah herself explain her actions after being confronted by FBI agents on her multiple crimes.
Hannah: Think? What do you imagine I've been doing for the last seven years, every waking hour, every time I gaze into the loving face of my beautiful daughter? You'd think the miracle of life would erase the violent act that produced it. That's what they'll have you think. They're wrong.
Aram: This is the man who raped you.
Hannah: He got out early. Prison overcrowding. And you know the first thing he did? Filed for parental rights. And you think I'm crazy. Fortunately, I had room for my own prison.
Man: She is crazy. You got to stop her.
Hannah: Shut up! Shut up!
Kessler: Hannah, don't!
Aram: Don't. Come on. Your little girl wouldn't want you to do this.
Hannah: What kind of example would I show Daisy if I don't fight those who demand control over me? My decisions. My body. And I'm not alone. It was easy to find people to join me, and we decided the best way to change minds is to make those responsible experience the same rape that I did.
Kessler: Wait, wait. Are you telling me that this guy's the father of those men's babies?
Hannah: Well, why else would I keep him around?
Aram: Hannah, I think it's safe to say that you've made history, but it's over now.
Hannah: No. No, it's not over. No matter what happens here, you're gonna lock me up, and this creature will continue its petition and end up with my daughter.
Kessler: Yeah, but if you shoot him, you're never gonna be a free woman again.
Hannah: Daisy will.
It’s almost hard to fathom how much awfulness is in this one clip alone. Not only does Hannah violate acts of nature, but she uses her daughter as a prop to do so. Plenty of women and rape victims would beg to disagree, but she still spits in their faces. In addition, she seems to overlook the fact that plenty of pro-life activists, like the ones she’s trying to punish, would help her fight against her rapist gaining parental rights. Clearly, no one on this show has ever met a genuine pro-life person.
Not to mention the fact that Hannah’s actions contradict the “my decisions, my body” mindset. The series basically argues abortions are necessary even when we have the technology to render them obsolete. If Hannah can create and support a pregnancy outside of a female body, then there’s no real "need" for abortion. An unborn baby could still survive, and the mother wouldn’t have to use her body to carry the baby to term. Scientists say we’re within a decade of using artificial uteruses to support human embryos, but feminists are already protesting artificial wombs, because it’s really all about the right to kill a baby.
It doesn’t matter to The Blacklist either way. The conservative governor proves Hannah right by sneaking to New York to abort his baby, hypocritically violating his own law and principles.
How about Gilligan's Island?
Skipper??
Little buddy!
Skipper??
Little Buddy!!!
Yes I'm losing it but not half as much as TV today has!
I think this explains why people may seek out MeTV or Cozi TV, if they have those options.
She realizes that is physically impossible right?
Oh, never mind.
Women are just men with breasts after all.
I self-dentify as the mother of octuplets. And the 8 voices in my head will back me up on this.
The Blacklist is one of the better shows around, and there s no way to interpret this character other than as an unusually cracked vigilante. The issue of rapists filing for custody is a problem that should be addressed. This whole abundance of caution in treating violent criminals like some sort of fragile endangered species is bull.
Anyone who thinks men should be forcibly implanted with uteruses bears watching since that is Joseph Mengele territory. It is certainly a concern that the Left is verging on Nazism and this storyline can illustrate the problem for anyone who doesn’t realise that this is the case.
I can’t read this sh*t anymore. It is too disturbing.
I quit watching TV years ago if it were not for Newsbusters would have no idea how bad it’s sunk!
MeTV has all of those, and is on the air. It is also inexpensive to get those DVDs lightly used on ebay (I have nine years of Perry Mason, five of Rockford Files and five of Brady Bunch). Some series are harder or prohibitively expensive. For instance, Season 1 of Maverick is easy enough to get, but seasons 2 and up are costlier and rarer.
Sounds like “Must Not See TV”.
Spader’s character is great, but the writers write his script too. I just think it’s an unusually good show.
“It doesn’t matter to The Blacklist either way. The conservative governor proves Hannah right by sneaking to New York to abort his baby, hypocritically violating his own law and principles.”
Who writes this crap? The governor would be on anti-rejection drugs anyway which would kill the fetus. And if not on such drugs, the uterus would be rejected outright. Never mind all of the other hormone replacement drugs that would need to be taken. Feminists are delusional.
That and the transparently "multicultural" cast:
Their lunchroom looks like the United Nations General Assembly.
So, so glad I quit watching TV back in 2008.
We watch Blacklist and saw this episode, it was pretty ridiculous. They basically produced a science fiction episode and tried to pass it off as socially relevant.
I saw that episode today. The Blacklist is normally a good show but this kind of political nonsense ruins good shows.
I could see their point but this was not the place to make it.
I saw this episode last night and it was too in my face. It didn't feel like the plot line of an episode of Blacklist. The preachy SJW Law & Order SVU more likely.
While the missing white male governor didn't have the baby, going to NY instead for an abortion, the black male pastor went ahead and had his baby. The abortion councilor/provider made comments to the governor about it being illegal in his state and he said he knew, it was his law, etc. seemed out of character for a someone in her position.
She was a black female, he's a white male. He justified going forward with termination because he was "raped" but I don't see what an abortion provider could do in this context. The usual ways of killing a fetus wouldn't apply in this case.
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