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Rosie O’Donnell Show Compares Post-Abortion Guilt to Blaming Rape Victims
Life News ^ | 5/29/11 | Tim Graham

Posted on 05/30/2011 10:50:44 AM PDT by wagglebee

On Thursday’s edition of Rosie Radio on XM/Sirius, Rosie O’Donnell discussed talk show host and comedian Chelsea Handler’s recent statement in a New York Times interview that she had an abortion when she was sixteen and still feels she made the right choice. Rosie and her executive producer Janette Barber agreed that it was courageous of Handler both to reveal the abortion and to say she doesn’t regret it.

But when the Rosie crew took a call from woman who had several abortions in her late thirties and early forties and feels guilty about it, Barber really lost it, and compared that guilt to blaming a rape victim’s outfit for rape:

JANETTE BARBER: To me, it’s almost like saying, ‘Yeah, why were you in that alley in short shorts when you got raped?’

O’DONNELL: Well, it’s different, because one is preventable and one isn’t, right? If you’re in an alley and you’re raped, you don’t have any control –

BARBER, not budging: But [people will say] ‘ your problem was you shouldn’t have gone in the alley, you shouldn’t have worn that outfit…’

You know it’s bad when Rosie O’Donnell sounds like the voice of reason. She hired this person to call shots for her. A few minutes later, Barber added:

I think if you want an abortion, you get an abortion. If you don’t want to get an abortion, I would never force anyone to get an abortion, but I’d fight to the freakin’ death for somebody’s right to have an abortion. When I was a kid, I thought, ‘If we lose this right, I’m leaving this country.’

I had plans [in the event of pregnancy]…I’m gonna wear a tent dress while I don’t eat so I can get big and I can go in the woods, have it, kill it, and bury it, ’cause I didn’t know how else I would get rid of it if I lost that right. I was pretty young when I had that plan, and I got over it.

This sound of desperation easily might remind readers of the abortionist writing on the Daily Kos a couple of weeks back with his motto: “A woman does not want an abortion like she wants an ice cream cone, a new dress, or a Porsche; she wants an abortion like an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg to escape.”

LifeNews.com Note: Tim Graham is the director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, a media watchdog group. He was a White House correspondent for World magazine in 2001 and 2002. The following originally appeared on the NewsBusters web site.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; moralabsolutes; prolife; rosieodonnell
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To: Stoat
The moral depravity of voices such as these speaks to the likelihood that our society is beyond saving. The need for leaders of absolute moral integrity has reached its climax. We are witness to the victory of corruption in every aspect of our society. We must demand an end to the persistent expression of social filth.
As to the notion of pregnancy as a trap, it would be better to gnaw off one’s leg than kill an innocent.
21 posted on 05/30/2011 12:44:29 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (For love of Sarah, our country and the American Way of Life.)
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To: Steely Tom
Steely Tom compares Rosie O’Donnell to toxic shock syndrome.

To be fair ... as the article noted, Ms. O'Donnell was the semi-sane person in the exchange. It was the Producer which she hired (and apparently hasn't fired), a Ms. Barber, who bristled at the notion that the right to murder one's baby should not be celebrated.
No fear of God leads to depravity which leads to insanity.
This Barber person is over the edge.

22 posted on 05/30/2011 12:55:00 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: JoeFromSidney

Some women have their abortions reluctantly and suffer greatly.

Some have them casually and callously. Not a big deal, not human, not her baby, not gonna burden her.


23 posted on 05/30/2011 1:15:44 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: wagglebee

http://www.rachelsvineyard.org/ Racehl’s Vineyard


24 posted on 05/30/2011 2:18:32 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: wagglebee



25 posted on 05/30/2011 2:18:55 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: wagglebee
...she wants an abortion like an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg to escape.”

This is the depth to which the left would drag us. God intends much more for us.

26 posted on 05/30/2011 6:34:32 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: wagglebee
"I had plans [in the event of pregnancy]…I’m gonna wear a tent dress while I don’t eat so I can get big and I can go in the woods, have it, kill it, and bury it, ’cause I didn’t know how else I would get rid of it if I lost that right. I was pretty young when I had that plan, and I got over it." --Barber
27 posted on 05/31/2011 7:07:04 PM PDT by Morgana (I speak no more)
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