PBS Guam: Beer Summit on abortion
Yes, that’s right. There is a PBS tv show out of Guam called “Beer Summit with David Cohen,” and it just posted its 1st episode on YouTube: a debate on abortion.
I received an email heads up last night from the show’s host, David Cohen, and was intrigued on so many levels that I gave it a look. I proceeded to be so entertained – although that seems like an improper word, given the topic – that I watched all 23 minutes. Videos usually can’t hold me past 2.
I really liked Cohen’s style. (I’d indeed enjoy having a beer with him if ever in Guam.) He wrote me, “We take the issue seriously, but try to keep the mood light to encourage people from opposite perspectives to find common ground.” The show was all that.
I do wish he’d pressed the pro-abort more, and I thought the woman debating the pro-life side was pretty inept and not even totally square on the issue.
Nevertheless, I give 2 thumbs up to this quirky show…
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I like the Idea of the show and I agree it was a bit entertaining. I also agree that the two guests were not 100% up on the issue but I bet they were the best to be found on Guam. I was actually born and lived on Guam, Andersen AFB. It is a very interesting Island.
He should be convicted of horrible. I love it. Good host.
So glad to see that people are still chugging along on Guam and that it hasn’t capsized as Congressman Hank Johnson had feared:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
;-)
The pro-lifer contradicted herself when it came time to discuss IVF. Initially, she said all life is sacred from conception, but in the IVF debate, she took two steps back by saying that the non-implanted fertilized embryos did not have the same value because of their location (petri dish) and were therefore not viable. The pro-lifer is Catholic, and is against contraception for herself, but its ok if anyone else wants it. That is not the Catholic church’s stance on contraception. She clearly has no concept of what the pill, IUD, or any other form of contraception that prevents implantation does to a living human blastocyte. The pro-lifer is a poster child for the need to educate themselves before agreeing to a youtube interview.
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