Maya Dusenberry writes for RH Reality Check. I guess she watches a lot of television too because she’s spending her Friday nights rooting for a fake abortion of a pretend character on a television show. Dusenberry writes:
I’m rooting for an abortion.
There’s sure to be an exciting football game in this week’s episode of Friday Night Lights (which has already aired on DirecTV but airs on NBC on Friday), but it’s the outcome of Becky’s pregnancy, not the game, that I’ll be interested in tonight.
In last week’s episode, 15-year-old Becky found out she was pregnant and is considering an abortion. If she has one tonight, it will be one of only a few abortions shown on network television since Bea Arthur’s Maude had one back in 1972. That would be a victory for Becky—and the millions of women like her who choose abortion every year.
Maya is a communications specialist for NARAL in New York so I would just wonder when is she not rooting for abortion? Doesn’t her entire job depend on women getting abortions?
Friday Night Lights is a well written show which has treated religion pretty fairly over the years, even having the “Our Father” prayed before a football game. What they decide to do with their character is up to them.
But Dusenberry writes that she’s sick and tired of there not being enough abortions on television since the television show “Maude” (Let’s face it, the only shocking thing about Maude getting an abortion was that someone got Maude pregnant.) But many television shows since “Maude” have made a business decision that having a character get an abortion would likely decrease viewership so they make business decision not to do so. Morality has nothing to do with it, it’s business. Hey kinda’ like NARAL.
Oh and one more thing if you like abortions on screen so much why don’t you like ultrasounds?
July 9, 2010 at 5:18 pm
To actually speak those words? I think I would throw myself over a cliff. That's like saying, "I hope someone gets murdered tonight." They know it's true. They just won't admit it.
July 9, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Her comments only show how callous and hypocritical she is. But then, pro-aborts have never been ones to let hypocrisy keep them from making $$.
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July 9, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Pro-aborts always claim that "everybody wants fewer abortions, not more." And yet she's rooting for an abortion…I don't get it.
July 9, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Sometimes, you read or hear things that drive home how very, very, VERY different someone's world view is; this would seem to be one of those times.
July 9, 2010 at 7:03 pm
The character gets an abortion. The character's mother goes to the school board to demand the firing of the principal that gave the character abortion info without contacting the parents, leading to "the killing of (my) grandchild". The school board suspends the principal and is ready to fire her. The principal "stand up for herself" in a speech before the school board, which then back paddles and does not fire her.
I saw it on DirecTV last season before NBC ran it.
July 9, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Let's face it, the only shocking thing about Maude getting an abortion was that someone got Maude pregnant.
*Snort!* Good one!
July 9, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Krickey, dm60462!!
How about a "Spoiler" Warning at the head of your comments!
The Fat"Yes, my life is THAT small"Man
July 9, 2010 at 8:52 pm
I'm sure she's not advocating showing a real abortion…probably a scene so sterile that the character lays down and moments later the doctor says all done. I think showing real abortions on TV would be counter-productive to the pro-choice movement….making people think "who would choose that?"
July 9, 2010 at 10:36 pm
I remember a made-for -tv drama in which a young woman ended up choosing to have an abortion. Ed Asner played the father of the girl, and I think he held her hand afterward and it was implied that she did the right thing for the usual reasons, i.e. the baby would ruin her life, she could go on and finish her education, etc. This was a long time ago. I was disgusted with the ending. Anyone else remember it? I also remember a tv drama in which Colleen Dewhurst(I think) played an older woman who finds herself pregnant when she thought she had gone through menopause. She courageously decided to have the baby although her husband and others encouraged her to abort.
July 10, 2010 at 3:26 am
Like a great sign I had seen at a March for Life event: EVEN JUNO CHOSE LIFE!
Well if that character does choose an abortion and make that disturbed pro-abort's day; fat chance they'll come anywhere close to portraying what a real abortion procedure is like! Think about how upset people get when signs are displayed of babies destroyed from abortions. I was standing next to one of those graphic posters once at a sidewalk vigil and this woman began screaming at me and how I could display such morbid pictures; I interrupted her rant by explaining that the people she needs to yell at are not the ones displaying the pictures but rather the butches in those mills who made the pictures a reality!!
As for this show, I've never seen it, however they should do a follow up show some years into the future regarding the complete wreck the character is as a result of her abortion; that would be must see TV