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Pro-Life Guest Appalls Hosts of ABC's 'The View'
Media Research Center ^ | January 22, 2003 | Brent Baker

Posted on 01/22/2003 12:11:50 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen

The View gang ganged up, though politely, on a guest on Tuesday who dared to suggest that abortion may not always be a wonderful experience. Actress Jennifer O'Neill came aboard to promote her “Silent No More” campaign and told how she regrets having an abortion and how pregnancy sites with which she's affiliated inform mothers of the physical and emotional risk of an abortion.

     Her variance from the “pro-choice” line clearly appalled the regulars on the ABC daytime show, especially Joy Behar and former NBC News reporter Star Jones, though former CBS News reporter Meredith Viera also revealed where she stands. (Barbara Walters was out, replaced by former Saturday Night Live cast member Ana Gasteyer who was also appalled that O'Neill's work might threaten Roe v Wade.) In the next segment, actress Katey Segal scolded the View team for being so “polite” to O'Neill.

     Some of the comments and exchanges on the January 21 The View, as transcribed by MRC intern Rudy Peseckas:

     -- Before O'Neill appeared, Behar was upset that a poll about abortion included the views of men:
     Behar: "Just ask women because we're the ones who have to do it all, so I just think that it's our business, it's our problem and leave them out of it [audience applauds]....Look, if I had a set of scrotum then it would be my problem, right? If my scrotum was in trouble -- scroti [everyone's laughing, crosstalk]. Since I'm the one that's carrying the baby, I want to be the one to decide....I think it's a woman's issue and just be concerning women, and the Senate is comprised of majority of men, the Congress is men, and they're making decisions for women, and I don't like it."

     -- O'Neill noted that “80 percent of women that go in and have the opportunity to have an ultrasound change their mind. They do want their babies. I was not told that, and a lot of women–"
     Behar jumped in: "There seems to be a lot of shame around just having an abortion, though, which I think, I don't understand. It's a legal thing in this country, but a lot of women are embarrassed to say that they've had one. Maybe we should change that."

     -- Jones lectured her: “But Jennifer, there is a difference between secrecy and privacy, and there are some women who say this is a matter of my business and my body and I need to make a choice that’s right for me at this time.”

     -- O'Neill advised that if you “have a teenager and you think you are doing them a favor with an unwanted pregnancy to go and get an abortion you are sentencing them to 30 percent higher risk of cancer. That’s a fact that you need to know before you make that choice.”
     Behar countered: “But it is also a fact that it’s a higher risk to have a child, to give birth than it is to have an abortion.”
     O’Neill: “That’s not true.”
     Behar: “That’s what I read.”

     -- Viera worried: “But prior to abortion becoming legal that’s when things were really secret much more so than after it became legal, and very dangerous. So there is going to be abortion one way or the other.”

     -- O’Neill urged adoption: “Offer adoption as an option. One-third of our babies conceived in this country are aborted, now perhaps it's a little better now.”
     Behar complained: “I think that adopted children have issues of their own too and giving up a baby after its come to term is a very painful thing also. I know girls who gave up babies years ago in the '60s before Roe v Wade and they suffer to this day that they gave up their baby so theres that issue too.” 
     O’Neill: “I just want them to have the option, look at all the different ways that you can go-”
     Behar: “Well I’m afraid that your particular thing that you are going to thell them is going to influence them to roll back their abortion rights.”

     -- Jones proposed: “Suppose I am eighteen years old. I’m going to college. I was careless I made a mistake. My life is ahead of me and I have chosen that I want to terminate that pregnancy and I don’t want to hear from you Miss O’Neill. In the first trimester, I make the decision in seven weeks. I don’t want to hear the options. I’ve made an informed decision.”
     O’Neill zinged her: “How can you be informed if you haven’t heard the options?”
     Jones: “Because I am a smart women who is at eighteen, I have looked it up. This is what I want to say, if I’m that person what do you say to me?”

     -- Ana Gasteyer inadvertently suggested most women are idiots: “The whole point of family planning is to give you options and alternatives. In fact the whole rollback is the fear that people don’t know that they have the option of abortion.”

     -- In the next segment, actress Katey Segal, best-known as the mother in Fox's old Married....With Children, came aboard to plug her new ABC sit-com, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. She scolded The View crew: “Well I thought you girls were extremely polite....I think she is not going to Washington to do much other than probably try and alter things. I mean I have a lot of opinions about that but do you really want to talk about that? It seems you covered that a lot, I’m definitely pro choice that's what I will say [audience applause] and I thought you girls...but you know I like that everybody has an opinion and I think you are extremely polite.”

     The Web site for The View: http://abc.abcnews.go.com/theview/main.html

     The Internet Movie Database bio page for Segal: http://us.imdb.com/Name?Sagal,+Katey

     Web site for 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter:
http://abc.abcnews.go.com/primetime/8simplerules/index.html

     Jennifer O'Neill is best-known for her role in the 1972 movie, Summer of '42. For her IMDB bio: http://us.imdb.com/Name?O%27Neill,+Jennifer+(I)

     Fun fact, she's in her ninth marriage: http://us.imdb.com/Bio?O%27Neill,%20Jennifer%20(I)

     For an old picture of her, check out a poster for the Summer of '42 movie: http://us.imdb.com/Posters?0067803

     Her abortion alternatives Web site: www.PregnancyCenters.org

     The View boasts having women hosts “with different points of view,” but on abortion they all have one view. -- Brent Baker



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To: Stand Watch Listen
Jones: “Because I am a smart women who is at eighteen, I have looked it up."

So smart you couldn't prevent youself from getting pregnant in the first place. If you can look up abortion, you can look up birth control. These people make me laugh.

21 posted on 01/22/2003 12:41:50 PM PST by mass55th
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Behar: "Just ask women because we're the ones who have to do it all, so I just think that it's our business, it's our problem and leave them out of it [audience applauds]....Look, if I had a set of scrotum then it would be my problem, right? If my scrotum was in trouble -- scroti [everyone's laughing, crosstalk]. Since I'm the one that's carrying the baby, I want to be the one to decide....I think it's a woman's issue and just be concerning women, and the Senate is comprised of majority of men, the Congress is men, and they're making decisions for women, and I don't like it."

Oh, sure. And since almost all rapes are commited by men, we really aughn't ask those women about how to sentence such crimes. Y'know, there's way too many women in congress, I don't like them making these policies to govern me. (Sarcasm)

Remember, unless your in China, about half those procedures very much involve people with "Scroti"

22 posted on 01/22/2003 12:42:16 PM PST by sociotard (I am the one true Sociotard)
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To: Xenalyte
Dammit, I used to LOVE Katey Sagal.

I'm rather surprised that Sagal is pro-choice. Didn't she go through an almost 9 month pregnancy and found out that she was carrying a dead child? You'd think she would hold life, especially that of an unborn child, more closely to her heart.

23 posted on 01/22/2003 12:45:19 PM PST by mass55th
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Isn't Joy Behar the one who caused a flap last year about saying "Thank you, Jesus" over losing weight or something? At the time she was pilloried for her remarks for invoking His name. She stated she had a personal relationship with Him, as I remember.

I wonder what Jesus would think of her comments on abortion?

24 posted on 01/22/2003 12:47:15 PM PST by mombonn
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To: Stand Watch Listen
I have a question. I've always had a question. And nobody's ever answered it. What did those innocent babies ever do that gives us the right to MURDER them?

These same people who promote abortion think a death sentence for a proven hardened killer is immoral. But they think nothing of killing innocent babies.
25 posted on 01/22/2003 12:47:27 PM PST by kitkat
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Visit the Blackmun Wall


26 posted on 01/22/2003 12:47:37 PM PST by toenail
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To: Stand Watch Listen
read later
27 posted on 01/22/2003 12:48:27 PM PST by LiteKeeper
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
ping
28 posted on 01/22/2003 12:52:16 PM PST by habs4ever
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Jones proposed: “Suppose I am eighteen years old. I’m going to college. I was careless I made a mistake. My life is ahead of me and I have chosen that I want to terminate that pregnancy and I don’t want to hear from you Miss O’Neill. In the first trimester, I make the decision in seven weeks. I don’t want to hear the options. I’ve made an informed decision.”

Because that decision in itself is so selfish it defies belief.

There are certain instances where I can see abortion as a decision between a woman and her doctor (I know some will disagree with that) but it is this type of attitude that strikes me as so selfish.

29 posted on 01/22/2003 12:54:15 PM PST by amused (socialism is totalitarianism in sheep's clothing)
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To: mass55th
I am always amazed that they use the old adage "it is my body"
I am even more surprised that prostitutes are not using the same mantra. It is only their body and much less lethal.
Go figure..............
30 posted on 01/22/2003 12:56:50 PM PST by americanbychoice
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To: Jon Geb
I have only ever even seen segments of it, enough to know that I have better things to do than watch a bunch of death worshipping hags sit around pontificating on issues of which they nothing. I did, however, just send them my opinion of them.

31 posted on 01/22/2003 12:59:05 PM PST by sweetliberty (Go Al, go!)
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To: Stand Watch Listen
I watched that yesterday, but I was only half paying attention since I don't agree with anything that any of those ladies say.

I don't know how these women, all of whom have had children except Star, could even consider having an abortion after knowing the miracles of birth. It just shows that they are heartless and self-involved. They care about themselves only.

And as for Star Jones being a smart 18-year-old and knowing all the info on abortion, all I can say is "Yeah right!" First of all, if she was smart, she would have kept her legs shut, second of all, I don't know too many 18 yr old women who have all the info or access to that info about abortion. And most of the time, they don't even do research on abortion. They just make the appointment and kill the baby because it isn't a convenient time for them to have a child.

They can't brainwash me with all that Pro-Choice crap!
32 posted on 01/22/2003 12:59:20 PM PST by azGOPgal (Get well soon, RWP!)
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To: LiteKeeper
Too bad Star's mommy didn't have a "choice"....
33 posted on 01/22/2003 1:00:17 PM PST by clintonh8r (It's better to be feared than to be respected.)
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To: Stand Watch Listen
I saw "The View" once. It was a few days after 9/11. I kept watching that one show because I didn't believe anyone on Earth could be that stupid ( the cast of The View ) and wanted to give them a fair shake. By the end I was praying that crowds would break into the studio and slap some sense into those inane "women".
34 posted on 01/22/2003 1:01:33 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (YATTA!)
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To: Jon Geb
Mark that up for anouther show I will never watch again.

Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

Watch a show of liberal idiots, expect to be offended.

35 posted on 01/22/2003 1:03:28 PM PST by Bullish
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To: mass55th
I'm rather surprised that Sagal is pro-choice. Didn't she go through an almost 9 month pregnancy and found out that she was carrying a dead child? You'd think she would hold life, especially that of an unborn child, more closely to her heart.

She miscarried one baby in the second month, and her second baby was strangled in the seventh month by its umbilical cord. She and Jack White (her now ex-second-husband) now have a son and a daughter.
36 posted on 01/22/2003 1:05:03 PM PST by Xenalyte
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To: Stand Watch Listen
When the President gives his speech on the sanctity of life, which he will do at some point, he will make these women look like fools. Over 2/3 of the public favor restrictions on abortion. That speech will show compassionate conservatism at its best. He reiterated today that he will sign a ban on partial-birth abortion - to great applause.
37 posted on 01/22/2003 1:06:57 PM PST by Wait4Truth (I HATE THE MEDIA!!!)
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Behar: "Just ask women because we're the ones who have to do it all, so I just think that it's our business, it's our problem and leave them out of it [audience applauds]....Look, if I had a set of scrotum then it would be my problem, right? If my scrotum was in trouble -- scroti [everyone's laughing, crosstalk]. Since I'm the one that's carrying the baby, I want to be the one to decide....I think it's a woman's issue and just be concerning women, and the Senate is comprised of majority of men, the Congress is men, and they're making decisions for women, and I don't like it."

I assume Ms. Behar would never think of filing a paternity suit or accepting any alimony payments should the situation arise. Right?

38 posted on 01/22/2003 1:10:26 PM PST by NittanyLion
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To: Stand Watch Listen
"Just ask women because we're the ones who have to do it all, so I just think that it's our business, it's our problem and leave them out of it [audience applauds]....Look, if I had a set of scrotum then it would be my problem, right? If my scrotum was in trouble -- scroti [everyone's laughing, crosstalk]. Since I'm the one that's carrying the baby, I want to be the one to decide....I think it's a woman's issue and just be concerning women, and the Senate is comprised of majority of men, the Congress is men, and they're making decisions for women, and I don't like it."

OK JoyLess ... what about those cases where the man wants the woman to have the abortion, but the woman wants the baby? What about those guys? Do they get to opt out of supporting a child they didn't want and which may or may not even be theirs?

The only role a man has in these feminist's worldview is to shup up and pay for whatever decision the woman makes. Then we wonder why we have so many children growing up without a father.

39 posted on 01/22/2003 1:10:27 PM PST by YankeeReb
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