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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: Jon Geb
I watched "The View" once when it first came on & decided the name really was "The View From Up Here Where I Am & You're Not". I have never watched it again.
81 posted on 01/22/2003 3:23:48 PM PST by Ditter
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To: OldFriend
This lady from NARAL was interviewed on Fox and she was upset that young women today risk not having the same right to choose if Roe v. Wade is reversed and if that's the case, they won't enjoy reproductive rights as their mothers' did.

Does she not realize what she is saying? Those young women she is talking about lucked out - they weren't sucked out and down the drain.

82 posted on 01/22/2003 3:26:38 PM PST by 3catsanadog
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To: clintonh8r
Got your point, but you know what? We all have choices...there are no "have-to's" in life. Everything is a choice. So the whole effort to protect "choice" is bogus!
83 posted on 01/22/2003 3:27:49 PM PST by LiteKeeper
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To: Stand Watch Listen
"it's our problem and leave them (men) out of it "

Oh yeah, the courts just love to hear that one regarding child support.
84 posted on 01/22/2003 3:29:20 PM PST by Rebelbase (Rock with Celtic roots at http://www.sevennations.com)
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To: toenail
Somewhere I saw a graph that showed the number of women who died from abortions prior to Roe v. Wade. The total number was only around 2,000. And, unbelievably, the number of women who died from abortion was less in 1972 than 1973 - the year abortion was legalized.

Feminists try to convince us that there were 10's of thousands every year.

What Roe v. Wade has done is murdered 42,000,000 souls to save a couple thousand women.

85 posted on 01/22/2003 3:32:36 PM PST by 3catsanadog
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To: Stand Watch Listen
One of the most difficult things to do is to contain my anger with the pro death crowd's insane inhuman beliefs about abortion. As for the media types - I just tune them out as much as possible.
86 posted on 01/22/2003 3:33:36 PM PST by eleni121
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To: americanbychoice
I am always amazed that they use the old adage "it is my body"

That statement proposes a problem. If a woman's right to her own body is of ultimate importance over everything else, how can she validate an abortion if her baby is a female?

87 posted on 01/22/2003 3:34:57 PM PST by 3catsanadog
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To: GraniteStateConservative
She's one of them pro-choice Catholics.

She is also the one that mentioned the day before the 2000 elections AND on election day that airlines in NYC had specials on flights to Florida,and how it would be possible to vote in NY that morning,fly to Florida and vote there,and then still be back home in time for dinner.

She is a Dim because she is so stupid thinking makes her head hurt.

88 posted on 01/22/2003 3:35:05 PM PST by sneakypete
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To: amused
I believe Star Jones is an African American right? Well someone should inform her that 50% of Black babies are aborted in the US. If that isn't racial genocide I don't know what is. Certainly far worse than the slave ships and slavery combined!
89 posted on 01/22/2003 3:36:54 PM PST by eleni121
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To: JimRed
From what little I know of Joy Behar (she had a radio talk show on ABC New York years ago) that statement about a "personal relationship" with Jesus was probably delivered in sarcasm. BTW, I hope I'm wrong!

Since she is a Italian who THINKS she is a Jew,this seems unlikely.

90 posted on 01/22/2003 3:38:04 PM PST by sneakypete
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To: FoxGirl
And tell the boys to keep their pants zzzzzzzipped!

Good point. Now, when do they get a say in the decision to kill the baby or save it?

91 posted on 01/22/2003 3:38:11 PM PST by Protagoras
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To: mass55th
I don't think Star Jones has to worry about getting pregnant anytime soon...unless it's by artifical-insemination....
92 posted on 01/22/2003 3:38:50 PM PST by little-e
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To: hattend
The grace and beauty of Jennifer O'Neill stands out in comparison to the harridans prodding her. ... And her countenance is lovely, too! Jennifer, good on ya, Lady.
93 posted on 01/22/2003 3:38:59 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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To: Stand Watch Listen


94 posted on 01/22/2003 3:40:27 PM PST by HighWheeler
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To: dead
Roughly half the dead kids in the trash can are male.

I think the stat is 51% male,49% female to account for the higher postpartum mortality of males. But ALL of those poor babies were one HALF of their fathers! Men should have a voice in trying to save their babies from abortion.

95 posted on 01/22/2003 3:40:56 PM PST by Vic3O3
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To: Jon Geb
Email the View woman and tell them how you feel. The start of the program has Barbara Walters saying "Five Women, 5 different points of view"- what a crock. Five liberal elitist snobs. Laura Ingraham was great on the show today. I was truly surprised they allowed her on the program. Ingraham said to the women on the show today that America was split down the middle on the abortion issue and she couldn't believe they could sit up on a stage and ignored the other half of the population that was pro-life. Star Jones said under her breath that she knew the other side was out there from the amount of email she received yesterday.

Email Star Jones! Email her many times!

http://abc.abcnews.go.com/theview/main.html
96 posted on 01/22/2003 3:41:43 PM PST by Republican Red
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Liberals truly are pro-death... it's not just a mean name to use for their stance on abortion. Look at their stances:

If THAT isn't a pro-death platform, I'm not sure what would be.

97 posted on 01/22/2003 3:48:33 PM PST by Teacher317
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To: ThomasJefferson
when do they get a say in the decision to kill the baby or save it?

They should have that as well, you're right.

98 posted on 01/22/2003 3:49:47 PM PST by FoxGirl
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To: FoxGirl
Only the right to save, no one has the right to kill.
99 posted on 01/22/2003 4:00:16 PM PST by Protagoras
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To: reformed_dem
...when Star Jones explodes

Talk about a supernova.

Except there will be nothing "bright" about the event at all.

100 posted on 01/22/2003 4:03:22 PM PST by semaj
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