Deciphering Some of the Problems with Pro-Choice Episodes from 2022

While I do have a blog about TV that I will link to in this blog, I might as well put the hot button issues in this or other blogs instead of that one. This is the planned start of an annual post where I talk about problems with abortion themed episodes of TV shows that I saw that aired in the previous year. There are sadly only going to be more and more of them. Meanwhile, here is my TV blog:

 http://adamdeckertv.blogspot.com/

What is a pro-choice episode? I would believe that any of the following would apply, with the more that appear at once, the more pro-choice it is: 1- Any character in the show gets an abortion, 2- Abortion is portrayed in a positive light, 3- Pro-lifers aren’t present at all, 4- Any pro-lifers that are present are portrayed in a negative light, 5- Pro-lifers are portrayed as hypocrites, 6- Pro-lifers are portrayed as law enforcement, 7- There isn’t even a reason needed for the abortion to happen, 8- Some character on the show once had an abortion which is now relevant again, 9- Well, you’ll see what else as I explain them.

 

The Little Things You do Together (Station 19): This is the only episode from before Dobbs that I’m putting on this list as none of the others were made until after the decision which overturned (sort of in at least some places) Roe versus Wade. It was one of the worst episodes of the year as the main plot that I got out of it was a main character getting an abortion which they had to show in pill form in the most drawn out and gruesome way possible.

 

With her husband having died in a fire leaving her pregnant later, she decides that instead of the life growing inside of her wasn’t worth having so she could move past it. The episode spends far too long on the whole abortion process that she’s having and trying to be happy about even as she experiences pain on all sorts of levels because of it. This shouldn’t be on screen at all.

 

Let’s Talk about Sex (Grey’s Anatomy): This horrible, sex crazed episode was the worst one of all of 2022 for reasons that I plan to talk about in my TV blog at some point. But let’s not even talk about all of the issues regarding that and stay focused on just the abortion part of it. It was the first in an unfortunate story arc regarding abortion after the Dobbs decision to show up on this show and can only be what the social justice warriors of Hollywood want to dictate to the rest of us as to what must happen in life.

 

You see, when doing a sex seminar at the hospital, a teen girl discovers that she is pregnant and immediately wants in abortion. Should she tell her parents? Nope. Should she even tell the boy that she agreed to sex with about his baby potentially being aborted? Of course not. She should just be able to get an abortion no questions asked. I’m almost certain that this is not how it would work in reality and that they have to make sure that this is what they want and it would never be that easy or straightforward.

 

When I Get to the Border (Grey’s Anatomy): Almost as if it were responding to the previous episode in the future, this episode didn’t have an elective abortion that all pro-choicers think are right and instead focused on an actual reason why one should get an abortion: the mother’s life was in danger. This pregnant woman lived in Idaho and needed to travel to get an abortion in a state like Washington where the show is set. This woman had to leave her born child behind and in child care (itself its own issue) in order to treat an ecliptic pregnancy or she would die. The doctors try to take her there, but there is a traffic jam, she has too many issues, and she dies before her life can be saved.

 

The cops arrest two of the characters, very briefly, of course, since characters are only in jail for a brief amount of time unless there is an arc to be gained from it. They go on a rant about how people like them need to know stories like these of people dying because they couldn’t get the abortions that they wanted. What I want to know are all the people who are glad that they weren’t aborted and got to have a life. And that’s not all I want to hear from, but that subject isn’t meant for this blog.

 

Maybe Tomorrow (New Amsterdam): This episode focused on some of the abortion protests that were going on after the Dobbs case as we learn more about some of the characters. A woman reveals to her ex that she aborted their baby which angers him as it would, even though she tries to explain more about this later. (This character was a lesbian in earlier seasons, by the way, as that can apparently change in a person, despite all that Hollywood tries to convince us about this.)

 

Anyways, it is learned that this woman actually had TWO abortions as the first was a result of her being raped and the other was when she was high. Why she couldn’t just get clean and use the father as a support system in the second case or find a support system for the first case is unknown. There was also a pro-lifer who got into a confrontation with a different main character that only had to apologize to avoid being arrested.

 

Another thing that this episode was sure to have was a pregnant woman whose life was threatened if she didn’t get an abortion, but she’s pro-life and celebrating the decision. Of course, the episode seems to point out the pro-choice belief that you have to get the abortion even though it is supposed to be a, well, you know, choice. They feel that you only have to make that choice and can’t choose life even though this woman dies trying to save herself and her baby that also dies. Don’t forget the rant about how they can’t go back to the pre-Roe world where it just so happens that in some places, abortion is now more legal and less restrictive.

 

By now, plenty of other pro-choice episodes of other shows have aired. I’ll have to discuss them as time goes by. I’m sure that you could watch any and all of these episodes and be sure to tell me what you hate or even find right about them. These were my thoughts on these episodes that were all bad to some degree.

Why “Baby Killer” is Both Inaccurate and Goes Too Far

While the label of anti-choice is also worth discussing in a future blog post, I’m going to talk about how people who are pro-choice are called baby killers. While I do think that abortion ends lives, I obviously think that it is wrong to use the label of baby killer. For one, if you aren’t either the person getting an abortion or performing an abortion, you aren’t actually killing babies. It also seems very close minded and dismissive because it doesn’t matter all of the good that someone can do outside of the abortion issue or as terrible as a pro-lifer might be. All they are going to be seen as are baby killers in the mind of others. Are all of the pro-gun nuts killers just because they don’t want common sense gun laws? If we want to be more open towards the other side, then we can’t just call them baby killers and be done with them.

The Sickening Pro-Choice Media

While the media, that is, the news, is supposed to be neutral in its reporting, it loves to side with those who favor abortion to the extent of wondering if there even is another side to that whole issue mentioned at all. It can be dumb when the media also focuses on both sides of an issue that there really isn’t another side of, but that isn’t worth getting into in this blog post. All I know is that the media is clearly pro-choice and it sickens me.

 

How is wanting an unborn baby to live somehow a problem? Why are women’s rights more important than a child that hasn’t even lived yet? Why is a woman’s right to choose never focused on the fact that she doesn’t have to choose the events that lead to pregnancy most of the time? More importantly, why is the media exclusively focusing against those in favor wanting babies to have a life outside the womb?

 

I don’t understand this. I couldn’t even watch the news for a while after the Dobbs decision was made due to the extensive coverage of the case that was entirely one sided. Why can’t anyone focus on the good of there being far less abortions now? Is there really not an upside?

 

If I want to watch news coverage regarding abortion, I want it to cover the other side at times. I do not want it to only focus on the pro-choice side, which is sofa king annoying that I can’t believe that it is allowed the way that it is. Also, abortion IS murder so why is calling it that wrong? Can you really not explain how an unborn child is life or how ending the life is not the murder that you are so convinced that it isn’t?

Ways Republicans aren’t Pro-Life

I promised that I would do this post in the last post. You see, some people may wonder why I can support Democrats because they don’t think that Democrats are pro-life. Well, after much observation from the political world, I have come to the conclusion that while there certainly is a party that isn’t pro-life, it sure as hell isn’t the Democrats. Here are reasons why Republicans aren’t the pro-life party people claim that they are.

 

1: Gun rights- This is the only part of the constitution that it seems that Republicans care about is the right to bear arms. It is the only one that they are knowledgeable about, at least to an extent. They are so gung ho about people bearing guns, they loosen gun control laws despite the constant mass shootings in this country. They want to ban the laws that get guns taken out of the hands of those who could do terrible things with it, in some cases wanting to ban these red flag laws. They don’t want background checks done on gun owners. They want those on the no fly list to be able to buy guns still. They don’t even want training for gun owners. How is any of this pro-life?

 

2: Crusading against birth control: This makes zero sense. You cannot claim to be pro-life if you don’t want people to have access to birth control. People who know the basics about sex, which is most people past the age of 15, know that birth control prevents the pregnancies that lead to abortions in the first place. Do people think that government funded birth control is too far or something like that? Do they feel that it is like they are giving up? Here, have all the sex that you want, just use birth control. Why would one be against both birth control and abortion?

 

3: Being pro-war: Again, it makes no sense to support war which causes loss of life if you want to claim to be pro-life. I’m shocked that anyone could support war in most circumstances. If you want to say that a war is just, then you better make sure it lasts a short amount of time and does not go any further than it needs to. Wanting wars that last forever is not pro-life at all.

 

4: Not wanting universal health care: You are a moron if you don’t believe that Republicans want to get rid of universal health care considering how open and honest they are about this. Maybe they don’t realize that 45,000 people would die each year due to lack of health care coverage. And they don’t think that people should have it? Da fuck?

 

5: Legalizing vehicle ramming attacks: Yes, this is happening in some places. While those on the wrong claim to care about life, it seems like the life of those who attack protesters are the ones that they care about more than any others. They call the storming of the capitol a protest despite all the evidence against this, but want to protect those who ram their vehicles into those who protest instead of those who peacefully protest.

 

6: Doing nothing about climate change: Despite all the destruction that climate change does, so many Republicans are too interested in protecting their major donors in the fossil fuel industry to the point of pretending that climate change isn’t an issue at all. People are going to keep dying in states negatively affected by this, states that are actually red leaning, with their party not doing a damn thing to help.

 

7: Not helping those with special needs: This is the main reason why I’m a Democrat. I see a party completely blow off those with pre-existing conditions, I guess thinking that since they won’t be likely voters at all, that it doesn’t matter if they are treated worse and are used as tokens by those in the Republican Party. If you want to blame gun violence on mental health, why not help those with mental health issues? If you helped those with special needs, it could be one of the most pro-life things they could do. But they only lie and say that they help when anyone with facts on their side can call out their BS.

 

8: Being anti-vaccine: Again, this makes absolutely no sense as the anti-vaccine people are far more active on the conservative side than with any liberal. I mean, who do Democrats have? We have Robert Kennedy Jr., a man widely hated by his own party. Republicans have so many people and let such nonsense happen since they need these peoples’ vote.

 

9: Being too lax with covid laws: Something that Republicans won’t admit are again facts that are easy to look up. Most states with the highest per capita dead of covid are all Republican states. They ban mask wearing or vaccine passports. They don’t want common sense laws in order to mitigate the pandemic since they feel that it infringes on personal rights. This and the last one make no sense as to why someone would be against abortion and yet openly embrace the phrase of my body, my choice over personal freedom rights again.

 

10: Supporting torture: Let’s not forget that one of the reasons that Republicans want to have something like Guatomino Bay is because it allows them to torture people who are suspected of being terrorists despite the fact that they aren’t allowed due process and we don’t do this to our own criminals so why should we do this to international ones?

 

11: Various anti-science ways: This last one is just a catch-all over anything that Republicans say or do that is clearly against scientific reasons that goes against life. You should listen to what mainstream doctors say and you will be fine.

 

I could go on, but I think that I made my point for anyone who will believe this. Maybe you don’t agree with any of this. I know that some of you will refuse to believe the truth for whatever reason. But I think that I made my reasoning known as to why Republicans aren’t pro-life like they claim to be and why I can support Democrats over them.

How I Can be Pro-Life and Still Vote for Democrats

When it comes to the abortion debate, there is a lot to talk about in this blog of mine. One of the things that people might wonder about is how I can support a party that supports abortion when I, myself, do not support abortion. Well, the answer is simple and might be discussed in another post that isn’t this one.

 

The main reason is that there is so much about Democrats that I do support that I’m not going to let my hatred of abortion get in the way of that. Democrats support universal health care such as the protection of health care for those with pre-existing conditions, the rights of those with special needs, the rights and humane treatment of minorities, common sense gun laws, are against vehicle ramming attacks, are largely pro-vaccine, largely had a good response to handling covid, treat undocumented migrants humanely, are against the obvious problems of white supremacy, and, well, I could go on. But I will instead spend the next post of this blog focusing on Republicans’ failure to be pro-life.

Pregnancy Resource Centers

Perhaps you have heard of them. Perhaps you have heard that they are terrible places that are quite misleading. But I don’t believe that you should believe the negative things that you have heard about them. Pregnancy resource centers are good places.

 

What’s dumb about pro-choice people is that they seem to believe that you must make the choice of getting an abortion no matter what. Being talked out of it or even trying to is seen as both unforgiveable and horrible somehow.

 

I don’t see a problem in the fact that a pregnancy resource center doesn’t offer abortions and even seek to get people out of having them. Any woman who goes to one of these can always just go to a real abortion provider on their own. There’s no problem with having some time being wasted on going somewhere else.

 

Furthermore, I fail to see how these places are the issues that people claim that they are. There is a bill that is being debated in Illinois that seeks to outlaw and punish these places, but not actually say what they are or what is wrong with them. What misinformation might they be saying? People don’t even have to have a complaint if this bill becomes law.

 

I might be interested in reading some of what Daily Kos has to say about this subject, although I doubt that I would considering how their pro-choice ways is what got me to start filtering their messages to delete from my inbox. Plus, I can’t stomach most pro-choice articles, such as the heavily biased one that Time once ran on these places. I’ve filtered a lot of emails from people to delete because of their pro-choice ways.

 

While I don’t know if referring to these places as these places is right, I can’t think of much else to say in this blog post of mine. I might have to do more research on pregnancy resource centers to best figure out why people hate them or want them gone. I don’t see what is wrong with the counseling that they offer or that they don’t want people to get abortions. How is not wanting someone to get an abortion wrong or a problem?

The Pro-Choice Gubernatorial Alliance

I don’t always listen to NPR as, like all of the radio stations that I listen to, I tend to switch to something else from time to time depending on my mood. But I did learn that there is now a pro-choice gubernatorial alliance.

 

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/21/governors-abortion-protection-alliance-roe

 

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/02/21/twenty-states-announce-historic-governor-led-reproductive-freedom-alliance/

 

Those in the alliance: California Governor Gavin Newsom, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, Delaware Governor John Carney, Hawai’i Governor Josh Green, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Maine Governor Janet Mills, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, and Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers

 

It is sad that one of these now exists as people remain convinced that abortion is the right thing to do and must be done. There is not a single Republican governor in this alliance. I might try to write these governors about this terrible thing that they are now part of. Well, I’ll write my own state’s governor for sure. As for the others, I’ll have to find someone in these states who can write to their own governor instead.

 

There isn’t much else to say about this group. It is not a group that I like such as what I have shared in the past like those seeking to uphold voter integrity or those who work together to help get rid of covid by making sure that a good alliance is going on. Instead, we get people who want innocent babies to die in the name of women’s rights.