Posted on 02/01/2010 9:10:34 PM PST by It's me
The "Bump" was conceived after President Obama's commencement address at Note Dame University last year where he said he wanted "to find ways to communicate about a workable solution to the problem of unintended pregnancies."
First it was the Real World, then came the Jersey Shore. Now, a new pseudoreality show is hoping to make an impression – only this time the cameras are following three actresses pretending to have unwanted pregnancies, and whether or not they decide to get an abortion is up to the viewers.
The "Bump" was conceived after President Obama's commencement address at Note Dame University last year where he said he wanted "to find ways to communicate about a workable solution to the problem of unintended pregnancies," executive producer Dominic Iocco told The Washington Post.
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I'd like to think that this show is trying to get the dialog (how I hate that word) going. Danielle Bean, who blogs at National Catholic Register, seems to take a different look at this web series. Take a look here.
Society is about to hit rock bottom.
Pro-Life ping
Sounds like a game show.
“Let’s get an abortion!”
Celebrating deviancy.
Downward death spiral of society.
What a sick idea even by today’s tv standards.
Who is producing this? Where will it be aired? I even went to the website to see what network this might be connected to—
Evil begets evil.
My first reaction is wanting to puke!
How can an actress portray a mother who has murdered her child in a realistic manner? It goes against all civilized human sensibilities. The only way that abortion can be discussed is in a political setting. This allows the reality of the horrific act to be abstracted enough to be ‘discussed’. IMHO
What’s next? Which Grandma gets the bitter pill?
Sick people, sick in the head
Ok
ought
See what Danielle Bean says on her blog:
“Perhaps the confusion was a part of the show’s producers’ plan all along—a gimmicky means of getting people’s attention. But perhaps it was an unanticipated part of their cultural experiment. My own experience in writing online is that if there is even the slightest potential for people to misunderstand something ... they will. People read quickly and casually online, and then react instantly. That can be a public relations nightmare.
After I read a bit about the show’s background and watched the first episode, I determined that much of the initial negative response to Bump+ was based on misunderstanding. (You can watch the first episode here and the trailer video is embedded at the bottom of this post.)
I am intrigued.
Some have argued that ultimately this series fails because its promotes the idea that abortion is a “choice” and that all “choices” are equal.
But I don’t think that’s what viewers of this series will come away with. Whether we like it or not, abortion is still 100% legal in this country and thus it is absolutely open to women’s choices—both good ones and bad ones. In Bump+, we will watch these female characters make decisions about their pregnancies that mirror the kinds of decisions women in this country make every day.”
WAIT!!!
I think we may have stumbled onto Obama's motivation. He wants to screw America, and is impotent as a POTUS - the "workable solution"!
And back in the 70s we thought Big Bamboo was just a comedy album...
There is no bottom. Just a gradual, relentless decent.
I still think its horrible.
Like Newspapers catchy headlines; anyway I don't watch tv.
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