Abortion proponent “thrilled” by an abortion on “Grey’s Anatomy”
One of many problems abortion proponents have is sending mixed messages about getting one. Whether to act glib and risk offending normal sensibilities, or to act serious and risk humanizing the baby, that is the question.
Maya at Feministing took the spectator-at-the coliseum approach earlier this week, saying she was “thrilled” and found it “refreshing” to see a Grey’s Anatomy character get an abortion.
That character would be Dr. Cristina Yang (pictured right, played by Sandra Oh) smart enough to be a surgeon but not smart enough to avoid getting pregnant, particularly odd since 1) she had a pregnancy scare six seasons ago that she would have aborted had it not been ectopic, and 2) she “really, really, really” doesn’t want children…
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One wonders why Cristina didn’t get herself sterilized long ago if she “really, really, really” didn’t want children.
Or failing that, what happened to Cristina’s birth control, back-up birth control, and back-back-up birth control – if she’s actually smarter than a teenager?
This is the backdrop for a t.v. abortion – self-centered, thoughtless stupidity?
A normal woman would melt into the arms of a husband who wanted children so badly he would give up his career to raise them, which Cristina’s surgeon husband Owen would. I mean, it was only 37 years ago that You’re Having My Baby was a number 1 hit, much to the dismay of feminists. The Glee version makes my point that women swoon over men men who love children. Who could abort this guy’s baby?
And for such smart people, Cristina and Owen didn’t cover thoughts on kids before saying, “I do”? Again, this stupidity is the backdrop for a morally acceptable abortion?
But there’s more. Cristina’s friend Meredith is converted into an abortion advocate and makes the “every child a wanted child” pitch to Owen, using herself as an example. But isn’t it a bit disingenuous for a born unwanted child who grew up to be a surgeon and marry McDreamy to recommend the killing of, at most, a half-unwanted child? If Meredith really believed what she said – if her life was really that bad – and for authenticity’s sake, she should have self-aborted after giving this little speech…
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And then the abortion. It ends up only looking sick and pathetic for a father to go so far as to willingly watch the baby he loves and wants being killed, all to support that child’s mother. And why all the drama if it isn’t human children being killed by abortion?
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Have I mentioned yet that show creator Shonda Rhimes is on the board of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles?
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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.
And I’m sure everyone was happy and whole by the end of the episode. Cause that’s how abortion REALLY works.
Every child a wanted a child. Blech. Again, wantedness NEVER confers value. The value begins when you show up, and you show up when you are physically present: AT CONCEPTION.
I watched the episode last Thursday and I was in tears at the end of the show when they started the abortion. What a joke if they actually think that is what happens during an abortion. I agree with you Jill, there is NO WAY a man would ever be able to stand their and watch his child be chopped up into pieces and put into a bag to be disposed of. They made that abortion out to be a simple procedure that everybody could do. I am not watching Grey’s Anatomy anymore because of this. And it’s good to know that information about the creator of the show is on PP’s board…now I FOR SURE won’t watch it anymore.
glad I don’t watch this trash. The only thing I watch that has McDreamy is Disney’s Enchanted. Otherwise….blech….I’ll watch EWTN on Thursdays instead.
what would be interesting is if the writers pulled a 180 and had the woman who had the abortion regret her choice!
Hi Megan.
We actually have a regular pro-choice commentator by the name Megan, so maybe so that we can easily distinguish the two of you, could you add a character or word or something to distinguish you from the PC Megan? Great to have you here.
Well said Courtnay!!! I have watched Grey’s anatomy for years and this one really made my stomach turn. I was crying and thinking why in the world we Meredith not offer to take the child too? Seeing as how she and her man couldn’t have children. So sad. :(
I am so glad that I gave up television shows years ago (I now only watch carefully chosen DVDs). If I had been watching this trash I think I may have just broke my TV set. :(
I was crying and thinking why in the world we Meredith not offer to take the child too? Seeing as how she and her man couldn’t have children. So sad.
Short answer: The show is part of a massive propaganda campaign to increase the acceptability of abortion.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Are you an unwanted child advocating other unwanted children be killed in abortions?
Kill yourself.
Ick. Suicide is not pro-life either.
Right. Like I’m supposed to believe this is how an abortion actually is. Like the abortionist would actually take the time to talk to the woman, or let someone hold her hand. And agreed, how sick that the husband would just be there watching.
Pure propaganda, plain and simple.
Ick. Suicide is not pro-life either.
You missed my point.
As evidenced by the fact they are still alive, even though “unwanted”, it shows they love their life and want to live, and it is the height of hypocricy for them to advocate death for someone else because they are unwanted when their own lives are obviously fine enough for them to want to continue living despite being “unwanted”.
Suicide is more “Pro-Choice” than abortion. Neither are pro-life.
If you really want to get Maya and the other feminists upset, have Dr.Yang light up a cigarette or eat a steak.
I do believe “Grey’s” has jumped the shark here. At least as far as I am concerned. What a joke. They did not even try to mask their over-the-top pro-abortion views here. I have never missed an episode of “Grey’s” since it started and I will never see another one again. Repulsive trash that it has become. I’ll spend that time in prayer instead.
I’m not surprised. I hate dramas, anyway. Basically soft-core porn for women so that they can say they don’t watch pornography. They just watch it for the story. Yeah. Right.
As evidenced by the fact they are still alive, even though “unwanted”, it shows they love their life and want to live, and it is the height of hypocricy for them to advocate death for someone else because they are unwanted when their own lives are obviously fine enough for them to want to continue living despite being “unwanted”.
It is like when pro-aborts say they want to reduce the amount of people born to “save the earth”. I always shoot back and say with a straight face:”Well, you and all of your “green” friends should kill yourselves immediately for the sake of the environment, after all it is the only right thing to do. My goodness, think of all the trees that will be saved and how much less carbon emissions there will be. Utopia!” Needless to say, they are always deeply insulted and look at me like I have three heads. What did I do, but take their pro-earth, anti-human beliefs to its logical conclusion? ‘Shockingly’, pro-aborts always want someone else to do the sacrificing.
“I have noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born”
~Ronald Reagan
Meredith’s little speech was just so ridiculous.
Cristina can’t place her child for adoption? Instead, she has to make her husband go along, against his will, with the killing of their child? And furthermore, offer him no hope of being a parent, ever? Awesome. Woo freaking hoo.
Guess it’s times like this when you think “Maybe we shouldn’t have skipped that premarital counseling and talk about whether or not we wanted kids.”
I watched Grey’s for all of maybe one season, a few years back, and I love Owen’s character. He should never have been paired up with Cristina. They just seemed doomed from the start. His character has far too big a heart to be with another character so cold and unfeeling.
Anyway, that being said, I’ve known for a few years that this show was no longer worth my time in watching, so I’m glad I never went back.
“Law & Order” is just as bad for their obvious pro-abortion views. They don’t even try to hide it. I watched it every week until they started making their views known on the show (they also have an obvious bias against Christianity). I stopped watching. I don’t watch all that much t.v. anymore, anyway…I prefer to read. ;)
The episode is supposed to tell the public that women really really want abortions, even well off women with good husbands and good health. It is establishing the concept that women’s authority is absolute. Husbands have no rights. Babies have no rights. Just because she wants too is all the reason she needs.
Obviously the percentage of aborting women who fit this description is tiny. Most women report that the people around them are failing in their duty to them as family and because they lack support, they are succumbing to outside pressure to abort. The pro aborts are playing the public for fools.
lol id rather stick pins in my eyes then watch this. i actually thought they pulled this show off the air a while ago.
“I’m going to ask you one more time, are you sure you want to do this?” I can’t say this is true for all abortionists, but many women have spoken out, saying that they had changed their minds, and said so, and the abortionists ignored them, or told them to shut up.
You missed my point.
No, I got your point. But the blunt “Kill yourself” made me feel ill. Pointing out the hypocrisy of the pro-abortion mentality by suggesting someone kill themselves…ick.
Sorry, Lrning. I have a low tolerance for b.s.
…. or maybe this is how abortions go for most people in the united states today. If a wife was having an abortion and her husband was not there to hold her hand and make sure she is safe I would not think much of him as a husband.
And Law and Order’s scripts are pulled from the news headlines of the day… So I guess reality has a pro-choice slant?
Seriously… reality check… this is a TV show about love sick doctors with over active libidos lol Also that character has been saying from the beginning of the show that she never wants to have children so you kind of knew this was going to come up sooner or later… I liked how her friends, colleges, and boyfriend supported her through it. I think if every woman had that kind of support and medical knowledge, recovery would go much faster and easier.
medical dramas are so silly and unrealistic. i used to watch st elsewhere. but the soap operas make me lol! im a real nurse and we dont have time to stand around in the hallways and talk about our love lifes and fix our hair and makeup every 5 minutes. i wore whites and a cap when i graduated. now nurses wear those colored scrubs and filthy tennis shoes….ick…..you cant tell a nurse from a doctor or a housekeeper anymore.
Ugh, I don’t understand why Grey’s Anatomy is popular. It’s one of the most intellectually and emotionally offensive shows on television, IMO. It feeds into an apparently accelerating perception of selfishness as a personality quirk, and personality quirks as evidence of personality in the first place. It’s hard to articulate but I just hate that people increasingly define themselves in opposition to things – as though if they just whine often enough about what they DON’T like, DON’T want to do, DON’T want, they will develop a picture of themselves in the negative space left behind. I don’t give a crap what you don’t like. LIKE SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING! Something other than sit there telling me and your friends and your television viewers and everyone else in the world how much you haaaaaaaaate this or that. It’s annoying in teenagers but when someone scripts adult characters, meant to be brilliant and relatable, in such a fashion…I just really don’t get why anyone watches.
That said, is it necessary to insist that a “normal woman” would melt into the arms of a man who wanted to have a child with her? Normal women have a variety of reactions to getting pregnant. It’s not necessary to stigmatize those women as abnormal; that there are a variety of common reactions to pregnancy has no bearing on the rightness or wrongness of abortion.
besides they said this character (she reminds me of comedian margaret choe) didnt want kids? well wouldnt a doctor get her tubes tied?
heather 6:18PM
I hear you! I love the old black and white General Hospital soap opera where there seems to be only one patient, Jessie brings Dr.Hardy his coffee every morning, and has all kinds of time to sit in Dr.Hardy’s office and talk about their problems. You’d think all the time she spent in Dr.Hardy’s office would generate a little scandal.
You can google these old shows and I just love them. The nurses are practically strangled by their tight collars. Dr.Hardy has been looking at the same x-ray for 20 years, once I saw it upsidedown.
ooooo mary i almost peed my pants! what a total hoot. forgive me as i pull myself off the floor from laughing sooo hard!
*If a MOTHER was having an abortion and her husband IS ABLE TO STAND BY AND WATCH HIS CHILD BE KILLED rather than make sure HIS CHILD is safe I would not think much of him as a HUMAN BEING.
Fixed for ya.
Sorry to disappoint you Biggz but nobody is allowed in the same room as a woman getting an abortion. Just the “nurse.” Oh and the “doctor.” You aren’t even allowed to have your cell phone in some mills.
But well in tv land we can pretend………
“but nobody is allowed in the same room as a woman getting an abortion.”
Yeah, and how come they never allow children on the premises?? j/k…I think we all have that one figured out.
Wow. I’m a nurse and in spite of working with countless surgical residents, I’ve never watched Grey’s Anatomy. Are the dialogue and situations always as fantastically stupid and unrealistic as they are in these two clips?? Selfishness of killing what you recognize to be a person aside, there doesn’t have to be a choice between being a surgeon and being a mother. Lots of women do both.
Are we seriously supposed to empathize with the Sandra Oh character here? Young people are prolife – I think at some point, future generations will look at cultural references to abortion from our day and age with the same disbelief that we look at things like separate entrances and separate restrooms for “coloreds.”
the guilt of having resentment for her child will kill her , but the guilt of killing her child no problem.
oh yeah , and and having a mother who doesn’t want them will almost kill your kid , even though you the father wants them , so better to just kill them for sure now .
I’m glad I never saw an episode of this show. A few years ago, I was a regular viewer of “Third Watch” on NBC. One of the central characters, a lady cop, had an abortion and told her husband she had a miscarriage. He was a bit of a schlub, but he cried like a baby in grief. I broke off that show cold turkey! Ughh!
“the guilt of having resentment for her child will kill her , but the guilt of killing her child no problem.”
lol, kim, I know, GLARING irony. I wonder if even those who favor legalized abortion could miss how ridiculous this idea is. This episode almost seems satirical.
So glad I have never watched this.
I literally still have nightmares from one Law & Order show. I was watching for the legal debates, which were interesting. And then they had this one show where they showed someone video themselves committing suicide. It still gives me nightmares. I haven’t watched it since. I can’t believe they aired a show like that at all.
Why would they show a married couple aborting a child? That’s nearly statistically impossible. A highly educated, multiple degreed woman who is married is the least likely candidate to consider abortion. It’s bizarre.
ari tv is pure trash today. there are even jokes made about sex on the simpsons and family guy……cartoons for kids. chelsea handler had an abortion (shes a comedian) and always cracks abortion jokes saying “i will never know what my kids look like because none will be carried to term” blech! i watch lots of little house on the prarie reruns and some tlc
Family Guy and The Simpsons aren’t cartoons for children. Not by a long shot. There is such a thing as cartoons for adults.
I haven’t watched The Simpsons in years though. Same for Family Guy. Bush’s last year in office Seth MacFarlane’s jokes went from satire to harassment, in my opinion. I’m capable of laughing at myself and finding humor in my point of view, but after I feel like I’m being brow-beaten by someone who disagrees with me in a mean-spirited manner, I’m not going to sit there and take it. That, and fart jokes get old after 5th grade.
Chelsea Handler is a disgusting person. Period.
i don’t watch greys anymore anyway and certainly would have been shocked and saddened….the so-called wise and learned doctors on that show, actors albiet don’t know anything and are missing the point in the value of life..they are brainwashed…it is very sad and very evident of what is being shown now on t.v. as ‘okay’….satan is fooling everyone…making what is wrong and evil now ‘acceptable’…i pray that this show did NOT encourage anyone to have an abortion and think that it is cool and they care about you!!! the MONEY is all PP or anyone else doing abortions cares about..
ari, there are many married couples who abort. Some abort their naturally conceived children, some abort their female children, and the more affluent abort their twins and triplets to have “singles,” while others create more IVF embryos than they need and ‘dispose’ of them.
This episode shows you how little television medical characters know about biology and medicine. A baby is evidence that the mother’s and father’s reproductive organs are funtioning properly and are healthy.
they ought to rename this show torn baby anatomy
or how about….its a grey day for baby? shredded anatomy. i flunked anatomy
xalasie…..chelsea handler is a disgusting person. i used to watch until she got too liberal and made it clear that she and 50 cent had been bed partners. she kept bragging about it. then after the abortion jokes started to fly i turned the crackpot off. she is a vulger and disgusting person.
same for many other celebs. i used to like joan rivers until she made a nasty remark about sarah palin. they really should be careful about what they say because thats how they lose fans. now i turn joan off.
“Some abort their female children?” You’re saying that so casually it’s sick, IMHO. Also, couples who have extra embryos can allow other people to adopt them.
And here’s another thing Chelsea H- said: “What’s the big deal about motherhood? Anyone can do it. I could have done it if I’d gone through with any of my 3 pregnancies.”
Oh, and why would feminists be “dismayed” about ”You’re Having My Baby” becoming a hit? I just looked it up and one line of it goes, “Didn’t have to keep it, wouldn’t put you through it.” They were upset because the woman in the song was CHOOSING to have and raise their child?
hi jill r yeah from the way handler was talking i got the idea that shed aborted more than once. heck i like to laugh and comedians too but their are some things that just turn me off. jay leno was no fan of bush (his wife mavis is on the board of planned parenthood) but hes also been throwing in some zingers about obama. to me thats fair. even lib letterman has been doing the same but someone like joy behar makes it her mission to just kick the guts out of palin and bush on her show every night. thats harassment and a major turn off for some of us. shes one sided and frankly a bore.
hmmm, let’s pray for and try to be charitable towards Chelsea H. She certainly doesn’t seem like a bad person. Joking about her abortions may be her way of dealing with them right now. If she ever comes to term with the enormity of what she’s done/had done to her, I’m guessing she’ll be pretty devastated.
Joanne, two of her book titles are “Are you there, Vodka? It’s me, Chelsea” and “My Horizontal Life.” Yikes. Doesn’t seem like a bad person? How about just incredibly irresponsible? Killing her own children puts her in the “bad” column. And then ot make fun of it?? That gets her out of just plain bad and goes straight to the monstrous category (but she has good company: the whole Kennedy family.)
joanna i almost printed out what you did. maybe her laughing about her abortions helps hr to cope but shes so mean spirited and kept calling tori spelling a man. then some people started ripping on handler because tori had done nothing to that woman and hello but chelsea you areent a raving beauty yourself. people even said handler looked like more of a man then tori.
Wll that’as just disgusting. I thought this was an idiotic show from teh first and this just proves it.
Thank you for this post. The clips of the show make me so sad that people actually look at the issue so selfishly.
Thank you for what you do for the cause of the unborn.
Great article, spot on with all of your arguments!