That's interesting that you say that. Have you ever watched that show "Six Feet Under" on Showtime? They had an awesome episode a few weeks ago. One of the main characters, Claire, is this art student who gets pregnant by her ex-boyfriend. She decides to have an abortion, and they actually showed the whole process! Along the way they made so many awesome jabs at the hypocracy of the pro-abortion movement:
1. They film her going to Planned Parenthood, making an appointment. The nurse (or whatever she is) suggests Claire find someone to bring her home afterwards since it is a rough procedure and she will feel sick afterwards. Claire is nonchalant, asserting, "Oh, I'll just take a cab."
2. Back at home, Claire does ponder asking someone from her family to take her, but everyone is busy (plus she doesn't want to tell anyone about the upcoming abortion). Finally at the last minute, her brother's ex-girlfriend happens to visit and asks her "What's up?" Claire blurts out, "Oh I'm going to have an abortion today, want to take me?" again revealing the nonchalance.
3. So now they are at the clinic waiting. A nurse comes out, and reads out six names, and six girls file in, go to some locker room, and all don surgical gowns and get ready for the abortion. The way they filmed this scene, you really got the impression that this abortion thing is like some factory line, where they do these things in batches. My fiance pointed out, "And they don't think abortion is used at a form of birth control???"
4. So then they actually have a scene where Claire is hooked up, put on the table, with her legs spread, falling asleep as the doctor ducks between her legs to begin the procedure. I don't know how many other people would be bothered by this, but seeing the scene where the abortion was about to be done was grotesque to me.
5. The next scene is very unsexy indeed. You see the same six girls in a row in post-op, (again think factory line), all throwing up and generally feeling pretty sick and looking pretty crappy. Abortion is not as glamourous or simple a procedure as you'd think!
6. Then as Claire and her friend leave the clinic, passing by the waiting room, you see the nurse come out again, calling yet another six girls to the factory line. (Another dig to those who think abortions are rare and only performed in serious situations. You really got the sense that getting an abortion was about as trivial as ordering a BigMac from McDonalds!)
7. So then Claire goes home, still feeling sick. There is some reference to her still feeling nauseous and (sorry guys) "changing her pad," making people realize that you bleed afterwards and that it is not a simple procedure. (More gross stuff.)
8. So then in another episode you see Claire playing with her baby niece, and she starts staring off into space, and you realize she feels guilty about the baby she killed.
9. In the last episode, there is this scene where she visits "heaven" (or something like it), and meets some of her dead friends, including her father. She runs into another friend as well as a tiny little baby boy. She looks at it, and realizes, that's her kid, and her friend tells her, "Don't worry, I'll take care of him."
But the last two scenes were cool because it showed that many women do realize that they killed their own child, and feel grief for it. Perhaps there are a lot of girls who have abortions, but don't realize they killed a person until afterwards (like Claire). So maybe this show will make them realize this before it is too late.
It isn't glamourous??? I thought it was so trendy and hip that I was planning to have one, and I'm a man!
She FELL ASLEEP??? More like pass out from the most intense pain you will ever feel in your life...