What we want to do is talk to everybody involved who works in a clinic – the receptionist, the doctors, the consultants, the counsellors, and, if patients agree, we will talk to them.
~ BBC Radio 5 Live host Victoria Derbyshire explaining the purpose of the BBC’s planned broadcast of a two-hour show live from an abortion clinic, The Independent, April 23
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Five Alive?!!!! How about five dead!!!!!
Who is going to speak for the Voiceless?
This is kind of morbid.
And of course, since they are journalists and dedicated to the truth, they will talk about the development of the baby, the contraindications and difficulties for the mom, the possibility of help from CPC’s and the community, and offer help, right? Are they going to follow them to the operating arena and broadcast live the human child being sucked out into the collection jar, and film/describe the doctor putting the pieces back together to be sure they have all of the baby?
If they are interested in reporting what really happens, then they should be challenged to report the whole of everything, and not make it one long commercial for the abortion industry.
Too bad all this energy is not being channeled to help women in crisis.
My goodness, how glamorous. This will surely change overwhelmingly negative public opinion about the moral permissibility of abortion!
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….This is really sick.
That sounds like a really depressing show which will, I imagine, have the opposite effect they intend for it. Even in Britain, putting abortion in people’s faces is surely more likely to garner opponents than supporters.
Shame on the Beeb, though. And after Doctor Who did those two eps that were everything but outright pro-life last season, too.
I’m sure they’ll ignore the person who has the greatest stake in the whole thing: the baby. But maybe if people talk about the reasons they’re perpetrating the abortions, people will realize that the “woman and her doctor” mantra is a load of crap.
Maybe they can interview the moms that are crying after abortion in the recovery room or being dragged in by their hair.
OR perhaps one might be leaving in an ambulance and be able to share her two cents after her “abortion care.”
Hoping a prolife presence shows up and they talk to them too.
They should do an interview with a patient as she is going through with her “counseling”‘ then during the procedure, then during recovery and NOT be selective in which woman they choose, heck do ALL the patients, that way they can’t find the selective ones that don’t care about the abortion, but the ones that truly are conflicted.
Just don’t understand the purpose of this beyond a sick attempt to destigmatize, or worse yet- glamorize, abortion.
“And of course, since they are journalists and dedicated to the truth, they will talk about the development of the baby, the contraindications and difficulties for the mom, the possibility of help from CPC’s and the community, and offer help, right?”
Exactly joyfromillinois. Maybe as journalists they’ll also interview abortion survivors, compare and contrast fetal development with what the clinic’s counselors tell women, and discuss the money that abortionists make off of selling body parts for research.
I can’t believe that they would want to stop KILLING….ahem..”doing their job” long enough to be interviewed!
This is a pathetic effort to make abortion appear “normal.” Propaganda. Nothing less.
Had to be a radio show, so journalists can waltz around real images. This is gonna flop.
But it’s exciting to see the desperation of the abortion obssessed. It means they know things are changing and they have to work a lot harder to sell abortion to the public.
Why are you guys against a documentary? And it’s live so it can’t be edited.
I’ve worked on documentaries: they absolutely can be scripted and pre-edited by controlling who says what and by the very common process of the pre-interview. Most likely, each person who will be interviewed “live” has already been interviewed. The possible exception MIGHT be the pregnant mothers who are there to snuff their babies. When I read the article and saw the word “anti” that pretty much told me which way this wind was going to blow.
Gosh, wouldn’t it have been swell to do a radio show live from Birkenau?? Or Bergen-Belsen? Gee, golly, maybe we wouldn’t have such a dim view of the Final Solution of only we could break the “taboo” and find out what those “professionals” were all about before we passed judgement on the tactics of the 3rd Reich. Yep, that must be it. NOT.
There never has never been nor will there ever be a society that murders its way to prosperity.
It’s a radio show–they use pre-recorded interviews, sound bites, etc. ALL the time.
A medically routine ultrasound is invasive rape. But a radio crew broadcasting live in a clinic is ok.
The aborters are desperate.
A bit off topic, but Alice, may I ask which two episodes you’re talking about?
@Amanda K.: It was…*hunts up episodes*…”The Rebel Flesh” and “The Almost People.” The way the flesh!people were treated in those two episodes felt very like the way a pro-lifer would argue for the unborn. The Doctor even calls them “sacred life” at one point. I would have said that they were totally pro-life all the way–though probably not intentionally so–except that the pro-life ethos of the majority of those two episodes was pretty muddled by the Doctor in the last few seconds of “Almost People.” And that was kind of frustrating. But barring that last scene, they’re almost pitch perfect for pro-life media.
Which shocked the heck out of me, believe me. :D
Alice,
When the running theme is that all lifeforms are worthwhile, they’re bound to bump into very pro-life storylines.
Since only the Doctor can regenerate, it follows that lives must be preserved. I hope that is seeping into the minds of fans.
Ah, I see what you mean Alice. And I agree with Hans that I feel like there’s always a bit of a pro-life theme running in the background of that show. River giving up her regenerations to save the doctor, Amy and the Doctor trying to prevent Van Goph from committing suicide, etc.
I’m pretty sure England still officially requires that two doctors certify that the abortion is necessary for “health” reasons or whatever. Ten bucks says that few of the patients interviewed even vaguely meet the criteria, not that it will matter.
@Hans & Amanada: Oh, thank goodness I am not the only one who thought that. I completely agree with you both (especially on “Vincent And The Doctor,” which I though was, an amazingly pro-life episode even with his suicide). :) But, for me, it makes this whole “let’s do a radio show trying to normalize abortion!” just that much more disappointing. One of the BBC’s most popular shows, period, is constantly going on about how life, in all its forms, is valuable and worthwhile and important. And then they contradict themselves so hard outside of the fiction–where the whole “life is valuable” thing should be a thousand times more important–that it just breaks my heart. How can the same people backing the one be the same people backing the other?
Pamela,
I thought the same thing. A human cattle drive, one woman after another, 10 min. with one to do the “procedure” and the good ol doc is on to the next one.
Maybe he can take a longer lunch to talk shop!!!
I’m hoping and praying for a fair debate, but given the BBC’s attitude, I’m not holding my breath.