Posted on 02/17/2006 5:57:07 PM PST by Coleus
February 14, 2006
HOLLYWOOD AND ACLU VS. CATHOLICISM
One of the stories on tonight’s episode of “Boston Legal” concerns a teenage girl who is raped, becomes pregnant and then wants to sue a Catholic hospital for denying her emergency contraception. Catholic League president Bill Donohue took note of this show today:
“If there is one Hollywood producer who has shown himself to be positively obsessed with Catholicism, it is David E. Kelley. His treatment of Catholicism on ‘Ally McBeal,’ ‘Picket Fences,’ ‘Chicago Hope,’ ‘Snoops,’ ‘The Practice’ and ‘Boston Legal’ is so well known that we have a big fat file on him. This time Kelley has decided to hook up with the equally anti-Catholic folks at the ACLU: the Pennsylvania affiliate is providing a viewing guide that can facilitate discussions at a ‘Boston Legal Viewing Party’ (courtesy of RaisingHerVoice.org, a project of the state affiliate).
“Tonight’s plot is the work of Corinne Brinkerhoff. The 26-year-old started as an intern for Kelley, then became his personal assistant, then was promoted to development manager and now has been hired as a script writer. It is said she ‘won over Kelley and the show’s writing staff on her first attempt,’ which, of course, is entirely believable: the show puts a lousy face on the Catholic Church. What’s not to like?
“The Pro-Life Office of the Bishops Conference, by the way, holds that ‘A woman who has been raped should be able to defend herself from a potential conception and receive treatment to suppress ovulation and incapacitate sperm. If conception has occurred, however, a Catholic hospital will not dispense drugs to interfere with implantation of a newly conceived human embryo.’ But don’t look for the party animals at a ‘Boston Legal Viewing Party’ to be instructed in such nuances.
“Whoever thought that Hollywood and the ACLU would unite to present the Catholic Church with a Valentine’s Day gift? And all along I thought these guys didn’t like to party—I just thought they were always out of their minds.”
And what amazes me the most - they actually think they are right pushing the anti-life agenda.
Kelley is obviously an Orangemen (the second "e" stands for England).
His religion, politics or nationality is irrelavent, it's his anti-life agenda I don't care about.
They would be amazed at your thinking.
Their thoughts are for the FEMALE who was raped, or the woman who doesn't want her baby (inconvenient/imperfect). They think that any woman has the right to abort her baby at any time during her pregnancy....even the late-term, that is, already born.
They really don't think of a fetus as a baby human being. It's simply a lump of flesh subject to whimsy of mothers.
Who knows how they arrived at such a terrible conclusion about our unborn babies, our future generations, about the sanctity and beauty of life.
It doesn't say anything good that we have such abortion laws ... and it says even less about the Sleazywood writers, producers, directors and actors that who continually produce, write and act in "entertainment" that validates this culture of death.
Fish gotta swim
ACLU Commies gotta attack Christians
That's true - I remember arguing with a hysterical bitch once in a pub about abortion - she basically questioned the very fact that I am male, basically how dare I hold an opinion about a woman's womb.
In a shrill voice;
"Excuse me" and "what would you know?"
I said I know abortion is murder - black and white!!
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NBC on the anti Christian warpath again.
Who's in charge of programming at this outfit?
Where do you start with something like that?
Notice the GE connection. That is where our efforts should be aimed.
JEFF ZUCKER
Chief Executive Officer, NBC Universal Television Group
Jeff Zucker was named chief executive officer of the NBC Universal Television Group in December 2005. Zucker is responsible for all programming across the company’s extensive television properties, including network, news, cable, and Sports and Olympics. His responsibilities also include the company’s studio operations and global distribution efforts. Zucker reports to Bob Wright, vice chairman of General Electric and chairman and CEO of NBC Universal.
In the latest episode, a major subplot involved a young girl seeking abortion without parental permission, a doctor who had been giving women such abortions for a while without telling anyone, a president who has always been on the side of "women controlling their own bodies", and a statement that abortion was legal in the colonies. The girl who ran away was from a religious sect that opposes abortion and it an important part of the president's constituency for her re-election. Ultimately, the president decides to ban abortion to please the constituency (and for another reason that I'll get to in a moment) but makes it clear she finds the position distasteful and not before she approves the abortion for the girl against her parent's wishes. As a final self-righteous point, the president points out that the girl has a name and makes a point to mention it, to "humanize" her problem, but how much do you want to bet that the writers never mention this girl again, nor follow up on how she fares now that she's been alienated from her family in what is essentially a refugee situation. Her use to the writers, as a prop, is done. And of course her parents, who oppose the abortion, are never allowed to be humanized, either, and are spoken for via a stiff and formal representative.
While the debate against abortion on the show is framed in terms of vague religious oposition (the favorite argument of pro-abortion forces -- they argue that the only opposition to abortion comes from unreasonable religious fanatics and that straw-man is in full force here) and never suggests that what's being killed might be a person, the show does allow an interesting anti-abortion argument that reflects some other arguments seen recently here on Free Republic. What ultimately changes the president's mind is that early in the show, she looks at the number of human survivors (about 50,000) and points out that if the human race is going to survive, people need to start having babies.
In a fairly well-done scene, while trying to decide how she'll handle the situation, she sits down in front of the number of living humans she keeps written down on a white board near her desk while the military commander points out that the number rarely goes up, pointing out that abortion is stopping the population from growing, throwing that point back at her that if the human race is going to survive, people need to start having babies. She goes to her science advisor vice president for a demographic projection. He points out that at the current rate of births and deaths that the human race will be extinct in 18 years. That changes her mind, though she clearly finds it distasteful. It's possible that the show will allow an honest debate about abortion but I doubt it. It's also possible that the show is going to ultimately give a pro-life message, since the writers seem to like reversals like that in the plot. But I honestly doubt it. More likely, given the liberal stars of the show, the authors were guilty about sounding too pro-life in a previous episode and this is their chance to "repent" and support abortion.
I may be too complicated to explain but the show has a sub-plot about dealing with a human-Cylon hybrid being born to a pregnant human-like Cylon. My guess is that the writers disturbed some pro-abortion people by using the word "baby" to describe the child before birth and by attempts by the heroes to kill it via abortion (the president wanted the baby aborted against the wishes of the Cylon monther, which she doesn't consider a person, and the human father, averted by a rather shaky plot twist -- so much for "choice" but that's hardly surprising given pro-abortion support of China's population control policies).
Hey, your pals from Dover!
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