Posted on 01/07/2020 12:59:37 PM PST by Morgana
In Showtime’s Shameless, seedy storylines are not unusual. In fact, it’s the norm. In the episode airing January 5, titled "O Captain, My Captain", as part of a side hustle, bar owners Kevin Ball and Veronica Fisher decide to make medical abortions available to teenagers.
Kevin (Steve Howey) and Veronica "V" (Shanola Hampton) open a mobile health care van to service local residents in need. It was to be a simple operation to make extra money. Veronica has a little medical experience as a doctor’s assistant.
The episode was silly enough with the idea of a mobile health care van delivering basic services like gluing up cuts and using popsicle sticks for finger splints. Then a fifteen-year-old girl from Missouri just happened to stop by with her mother because she is pregnant and looking to get an abortion. Her mother says that abortion is not available to her daughter in their home state because of abortion laws there – no abortions after 8 weeks. Their friend, Dr. Brenda, advises them that she can prescribe medicine to Veronica to give to the girl. Kevin is hesitant about the whole thing but eventually goes along.
Kevin: This does not fall under the scope of Miss V’s Jiffy Care.
V: She’s a 15-year-old Missouri girl who's ten weeks pregnant, and some old white assholes decided she can't terminate her pregnancy in her state after eight weeks. What's she supposed to do, risk her life in some back-alley abortion?
Kevin: We'll take her to the clinic. How much are one of those, Dr. Brenda?
Brenda: Without insurance, it'll run at least $400.
Kevin: That's not that much.
V: They're on the snap program. They can barely afford to eat.
Kevin: What about one of those free clinics?
Brenda: Clinics won't touch an out-of-state patient, free or not. There's always a medical abortion. Mifepristone. Two pills taken over a couple of days.
Kevin: Great, let's point 'em to Rite Aid and send them on their way.
V: Uh, how much does that cost?
Brenda: About the same. But I could always write the prescription in Veronica's name. I mean, with insurance, it's only a $20 copay. You have insurance?
V: Obamacare.
Kevin: So great, on top of all this, we're running an insurance scam now?
V: She's 15. Having a baby this young could ruin her life. We started V's Jiffy Care to do some good. At least it's the lesser of two evils. We both have to agree if we're gonna do this. But remember before you answer if you say no, you’re just another man standing in the way of a woman’s future.
Ah, yes. It’s men keeping women down instead of embracing killing unborn babies for convenience. Sadly, other girls show up after they hear about the pills. In order to get more prescriptions, Dr. Brenda “accidentally” leaves behind her prescription pad for Veronica to use.
Then, in a truly unrealistic move, Veronica recruits elderly women to get pills from a doctor for the other girls. The sight of old women standing in line for abortion pills, using excuses like rape and incest, was really disgusting.
Veronica Hi, ladies. Remember Kevin?
Woman: Uh-huh. Sure do.
Veronica: Gracie explained to y'all what's going on?
Woman: Let's do this.
Veronica: All right, ladies. Saddle up. We're going on a field trip.
Pharmacist: Mifepristone. you need an abortion?
Woman: I told Murray the pullout method was an ineffective form of birth control, but he's a little hard of hearing nowadays. Here's my co-pay.
Pharmacist: I'm afraid you're gonna have to pay full price. Medicare only covers abortion in cases of rape, incest, or when the mother's life is in danger.
Woman: I'm 80 years old. Having a baby'll probably kill me.
Woman #2: Might as well grab some for me while you're back there, young man. I was raped.
Woman #3: Incest for me.
Woman #4: Me too!
Woman #5: Rape again.
Woman #6: I was raped.
The episode ends with even more girls coming for abortion pills. Ugh. Sexual abuse and incest are not something to lie about for any reason. This show is scrapping the bottom with this story plot.
Sick!
watch the video! I can just see them using tactics like that
Are these teens pregnant from encounters with teen boys or adult men?
80 year old fertile women?
I’m guessing this is a show about black people?
—— and the viewers agree —— both of them.
Yes in the TV show women are buying the drug with obozocare to give to teens who can’t afford it.
Yes in the TV show women are buying the drug with obozocare to give to teens who can’t afford it.
Can’t afford or just have other priorities like crack or iphones?
I always find the later to be the case
this was a tv show, correct? NOT true?
Isn’t that fraud?
There are in real life people selling their blood test strips
“Kevin is hesitant about the whole thing but eventually goes along.”
And THERE is the root cause of most of of our troubles.
The story of Eve and the serpent is an early warning to all men: Do not trust women. Kevin’s hesitancy was his conscience working in him, but her T & A led him astray. Again and again and again.
The only option they spoke of to their ‘safe’ abortion was a back alley one. Zero mention of carrying the child and doing adoption, letting two people live. The death the child meant nothing. Nothing.
Lord, if you come now and wipe this all clean...I understand.
what is it with these people abusing a**holes???...
My question: WHERE are those parents? Especially, where are those fathers?
My father had to meet all my dates. He had a mega-deep voice and scared most of my dates. They ALL got me home right on time.
Miss V’s Jiffy Care??
A mobile medi-van dispensing drive-thru abortions??
Farcical. But Planned Parenthood will think this is a great idea.
This is why being raised by a single mother increases the odds of a teen girl becoming a mother 3-4x.
No, there is a black woman, Veronica and her husband who is white(Kevin).
Shameless started out about a defunctional family and their dad Frank (played by William H Macy) stealing from them all the time, not supporting them, instead the oldest daughter 18 goes to work and handles all the drama for the 4 kids. I enjoyed the show in the beginning but then it got into one kid being gay then the youngest daughter got pregnant, then she decided few years later maybe she was a lesbian, etc.
‘Lord, if you come now and wipe this all clean...I understand.’
why would the Lord come now, when legal abortion began 47 years, and some 60 million deaths ago...?
“I won’t sacrifice the million brain cells I would lose if I watched this imbecility. I don’t like to expose myself to stuff that gives me contempt for their human race”
i watched about 10 minutes of the first show of this series because William Macy was in it, not knowing what the show was about ... there was not a single redeeming virtue to this show ... i couldn’t believe anyone would want to watch a show about absolutely disgusting low-life cretins doing nothing but being absolutely disgusting low-life cretins ...
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