If you couldn’t tell by the
name of this post, then I might as well do a warning of this post’s content. I
am talking about the very serious topic of abortion and how it relates to the
world of TV today. It does seem very strange just how normal this topic has
become and also how one sided the issue always seems to be portrayed in the
news or TV shows. I don’t like this one bit. You are going to get a lot of my
thoughts on this issue and hear (or read) some of the other side of this issue.
Starting back a long ways ago,
television would never cover this issue. It wasn’t something that TV would ever
cover. And when it did cover it, it didn’t side with those in favor of
abortion. Back when Law and Order first aired, an earlier episode on the
bombing of an abortion clinic lead to most advertisers pulling out. The same
was true with other shows that covered it way back when at the time, such as a
really old show called The Defenders.
Even covering the topic of
pregnancy after the Roe versus Wade decision was made, you would NEVER have a
character on any show that I ever watch even consider getting an abortion. They
would just live with their decision and have the baby. While the world of
television sadly became more and more immoral, it would never be so immoral
that characters on shows would have abortions. And yes, abortion is immoral. It
never was the case, that is, until it was.
I’ll have no way of knowing
for sure when it changed or which show ushered in the change. What I do know is
that the show of Parenthood was among the first things that I watched that
showed a character getting an abortion. It wasn’t focused on too much, but it
was clearly in there. Another shows that I like, Jane the Virgin, also had it
happen to a character and it was also a fairly minor plot point and detail with
the show hardly focusing on it that much. I doubt that these were the only ones
that covered it. And Jane the Virgin was a show that made it clear in another
part that abortion was the wrong choice and idea to do for that character. But
that same character was the one that later got an abortion.
But some shows went much
further than this in the end. In Grey’s Anatomy, a person was shown at one
point taking abortion pills. But the part of that franchise that made me want
to write this post was in the show Station 19. A character is shown taking the
pills and then her abortion is shown a lot in whole and gruesome detail, but
with some implications that this could be a happy choice. She was clearly in a
whole lot of pain through this, but we still see it and it was so wrong, this
episode may wind up on my list of worst episodes of the year should I do
something like that in the future.
The fact that abortion is now
constantly being seen as the correct choice is all kinds of wrong. Even the
people who are against abortion are now labeled anti-choice. But abortion is a
choice that one does not have to make. And I despise the fact that many
pro-choice people are labeled baby killers when a lot of them don’t actually
perform or get abortions. And the idea that people don’t ever regret abortions
is just false. While it may happen from time to time, there are people who feel
that way. And there is such a thing as abortion survivors. You can’t deny the
existence of something you don’t like just because you don’t like such a thing
in the end. That’s not how facts work. And only if someone could convincingly
make the case that a fetus isn’t life would I ever support abortion. You’ll
never make that case, but you are more than free to try.
While the abortion line has
already been crossed, it could get even worse in the future. What it could be
is that if the Supreme Court decision on abortion does overturn its legality in
all cases, that we will see a whole lot more of its support in the future.
We’ll see episodes of shows devoted to why women should have abortions and why
it is somehow ridiculous to want an unborn child to live. Normally, wanting a
person to live in any situation is a good thing, unless, of course, it is an
unborn baby, in which case, it only seems that one is wrong in some way for
thinking such a thing. I’m not looking forward to this and some shows may piss
me off so much that I could stop watching them.
I can’t think of anything else
worth exploring in this blog post. I wish that the abortion issue wasn’t so one
sided with the pro-lifers made out as horrible people all the time. But that’s
the sad way that the world has come to be nowadays. I can only hope that it
changes. But with the way that Hollywood is always attacking Christians, then I
doubt such a thing will ever happen in the end.
