...best? most moral?? decision...

How about most callous and selfish...

Nauseating.

I don't watch the show, but had heard good things about it. Feldt takes a bizarre pleasure in this abortion story. She still doesn't get what life is really about. Praying for Feldt. Praying for the producers of FNL and their viewers who will be influenced into thinking abortion is sometimes a good option. Lord have mercy.

Hug their necks? Does that make Feldt the proverbial millstone?

What a shame. I doubt they will show the aftermath of the teenage character's decision.

I'm still disappointed that Bea Athur portrayed her character Maude killing her child, but that dates me for sure.

Yeah, abortion gives me a warm fuzzy too.

*gags*

How can they possibly know that killing their own child is the "best" decision? How can it ever be a "GOOD" decision? The point is--don't conceive these babies to begin with. I'm not for abstinence-only education, but I do believe we shouldn't act like abstinence is for sissies and fools. We teach our kids to go to the bathroom at specific times, we teach them not to smoke, not to eat certain things....then why can't we say, "There will be plenty of time to have sex later, right now, worry about your SATs."

"Hug their necks? Does that make Feldt the proverbial millstone?"

Ninek, Great point. LOL. I thought that was a strange statement too. Who hugs a neck?? It de-personifies a person in a way, just as she's had to do to a child in oder to advocate abortion. This quote also made me think of Bea Arthur's show. It's sad that Arthur is remembered for her TV abortion by those of us who grew up in the 1970's. I was hard to get past it even when watching "Golden Girls" which was a pretty funny show.

Feldt'S comment about moral decisions is messed up. She's trying to tell girls that morals are relative to a situation.

Ms. Feldt, A girl choosing life makes a GOOD moral decision. A girl choosing abortion has made a BAD moral decision, Period. The devil rejoices in evil.

MaryLee,
Sorry, I didn't read your comment about "GOOD" decisions before I posted! Funny we both capitalized the word "good".
Sorry for all the typos!

To me, the most egregious statement Feldt makes is when she writes, in reference to the numbers of illegal abortions in the pre-Roe days, that "Most everyone knew of someone who had died from a back-alley abortion, or a child who had been orphaned by one." Can't believe she is still spreading that load of manure.

Oh Happy Abortion! Joyous Abortion! Four Emmy's worth of fun!

They will of course be showing this young woman doubting her decision, wondering what she was thinking, getting depressed, angry, sad, having nightmares??

I won't hold my breath. She'll be shown happy as a clam to have killed her child and avoiding a life of misery. Whew. That was close.

"Most everyone knew of someone.."? Wow, that's so like, y'know, scientific n'stuff.

The inflated illegal abortion casualty numbers were in the mere hundreds in 1972. Thank goodness Bernard Nathanson had the guts to admit it in his book, "The Hand of God". It's too bad Feldt can't read. That load of manure isn't even good fertilizer. My mother would call it a load of 'cat do' because as she used to say, "We've got a use for bull-do, even bat-do, but no one has any use for cat-do." Of course, I'm cleaning it up for the blog, ;>)!

What an insidious pack of lies!

satan takes a horrific evil act, the killing of one's own child, and overwhelms the still, small voice, the consciences in these poor girls and women with words like "empowerment".

What they don't realize is that true empowerment comes from embracing the gifts and responsibilities God has given us. God never gives us a challenge we can't handle. If we'll just seek Our Heavenly Father, He will provide through His unconditional Love and the riches of His Grace whatever we may need in our moment of trial.

And for Feldt to wrap it up and sugar coat it with her misplaced, phony affection is like chocolate covered cyanide.

My heart breaks for all the young people that will be deceived and make a horrendous decision based on this TV show and the treacherous guile of Feldt.

Lord, have mercy.

I'm glad I don't watch this show. In terms of fiction, few things make me more depressed than when a book, movie, or TV show that I've been enjoying suddenly involves abortion and all the characters agree getting one was the right decision. I quit watching "House" because of the episode where a woman who had been raped told him she didn't want an abortion and he talked her into it anyway. That episode made me so angry, I wished House was a real person so I could find him and punch him in the face. Once she told him she didn't want an abortion, that should have been the end of that discussion. Where's he going to be when she's suicidal and sobbing, exchanging witty repartee with Wilson?

And then some people I knew claimed it was okay for him to have done that, because it was "a medical opinion." Like hell it was. Is it a "medical opinion" when a doctor tries to dissuade a woman from having an abortion, or is that "infringing on a woman's personal freedom"?

So when a TV character CHOOSES NOT to abort, the pro-choice advocates scream anti-choice propaganda. When the TV character CHOOSES abortion, the pro-choice advocates applaud.

And they are not pro-abortion, but pro-choice, right?

Exactly! They ARE pro-abortion. There isn't any other choice they applaud or support.

An aside,
I just listened to a radio station interview (The Janet Medford Show) - the guest was Paul Copan - he has some interesting views on moral relativism. In the short time I heard him, he talked about the relationship between Moral Relativism, Godlessness, and the Survival Instinct in contrast to Belief in God and the Search for Truth.

Oh Happy Abortion! Joyous Abortion! Four Emmy's worth of fun!

They will of course be showing this young woman doubting her decision, wondering what she was thinking, getting depressed, angry, sad, having nightmares??

I won't hold my breath. She'll be shown happy as a clam to have killed her child and avoiding a life of misery. Whew. That was close.
Posted by: carla Author Profile Page at August 2, 2010 1:09 PM

and don't forget the fact that the world has been spared an unwanted child and the child itself has been spared the horrible terrible burdensome life of being unwanted.

as we all know death is much preferred to being unwanted.

I don't watch the show (thank heavens...) but...

Abortion will be a "moral decision" when hell freezes over.

Posted by: army_wife at August 2, 2010 5:45 PM
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Actually, it's a moral decision - but a moral decision is usually between something which is morally correct and another which is morally wrong.

That Gloria Feldt was compelled to make such a statement indicates that the decision was for immorality, because no one need justify a true moral choice.

As Greg Koukl says:

If the unborn are not human, no justification for elective abortion is necessary. But if the unborn are human, no justification for elective abortion is adequate.

Posted by: Chris Arsenault at August 2, 2010 7:23 PM

Great response... but it seems that I worded my comment poorly because it's being misunderstood. Oops!

I meant that abortion will be a morally *correct* decision when hell freezes over.

Sorry about that.

I watch Friday Night Lights and actually am a pretty big fan. Yes, I was not pleased with Becky's choice but I really didn't see it as a glorification of abortion. I don't think the show gloated in the abortion or the character exclaimed that it was amazing.

Becky on FNL is a very, very troubled teenager who has a bartender mother who sleeps with younger men and a father who doesn't care about her. I saw her choice in abortion as more of a symptom of the real problem Becky has, that she hates herself and that she wishes her mom never had her. Becky on FNL is by no means hugely ambitious or portrayed as a girl that has everything going for her.

I think the Feldt and other pro-choice advocates are jumping on the fact that it the show featured abortion as a way to push their position. I saw the plot twist as showing just how bad of self-esteem Becky really does have. I don't know how the show producers intended it but I would like to believe that they didn't have a pro-choice agenda.