For those of you who don’t subject yourselves to the horror known as reality television, there is a show on Viacom’s MTv station, called “16 and Pregnant.” I have issues with the show, not the least of which is that it is a form of exploitation of teen girls– pregnant teen girls, to boot. Pregsploitation, if you will. The show also almost glamorizes teen pregnancy. While it is meant, supposedly, to show the hardships that result from a teen pregnancy, the greatest hardship usually shown is that the girls have to quit the cheer leading squad or not attend prom.
Yes, it might shine a light on a bit of reality for some girls, but for many teens it likely looks like fun. Look at her! She has a cute little baby and everyone is paying attention to her. Everyone is supporting her and making her feel special! The only thing that I find it truly shines a light on is how detrimental it can be when a Mommy decides to be best buddy to her daughter and not, you know, a Mother.
That aside, the one thing that I do like about the show is that every girl has the baby. Two decided to bless another family and chose adoption. The rest all kept their babies. The option of abortion did come up in conversation in a couple of the shows that I have seen and, in all cases, the girls said that wasn’t even an option for them. Wonderful news, right? Not if you are a feminist!
Feminists, like Jessica Valenti of Feministing, are lamenting the fact that the show doesn’t feature abortions. Sixteen year old girls. Having abortions. On television. That is what feminists want to see. Vile, Thy Name is Feminist. This is what Jessica Valenti had to say, in fact (emphasis hers):
Where are the pregnant teens who choose not to stay pregnant? Where are the abortions?
I realize that it’s controversial to document a teenager who decides to end their pregnancy, but the fact is that nearly a third of all teen pregnancies end in abortion. But if you were to watch MTV, you’d never know that – you’d think all young women choose to go through with the pregnancy…
If MTV really wanted to prove themselves as responsible programmers, they would also feature pregnant teens who have abortions.
Only to a feminist would the fact that one third of pregnancies in a demographic end in abortion be a plus and an attempted rationale for an insane argument. To anyone else, that’s a devastating and incredibly sad statistic. But, see, it’s not about The Children nor The Women to feminists. It’s entirely agenda driven. And their agenda, frankly, is Anti-Child and Anti-Woman. Motherhood? So old school and oppressive! Try a super cool and “empowering” abortion instead!
This is a blessing in disguise, however. Feminists continue to walk in Stepford Feminist lock-step, constantly extolling their delusional wonders of abortion, while the rest of the population now looks on in horror. And not just due to their hairstyles and their creepily smug faces, although that is part of it. But because the post-Roe generation sees through the lies. Pre-Roe, people were told abortion would be safe, legal and RARE. We now know that was a lie and there are over 50 million dead fetuses who can attest to that fact.
Medical advancements have proven that whole “life doesn’t begin until viability” falsehood as well. Women, and men, today can physically see weeks-old fetuses. They can see second trimester fetuses, legally allowed to be aborted on demand, in 3D. They see that they are unborn babies and not just a clump of cells. This is why, Jessica Valenti, the teen girls on “16 and Pregnant” “chose” to remain pregnant. And it is why more and more young people today are trending Pro-Life.
A commenter at Jessica Valenti’s blog actually had it right, although for the opposite reason than the one I’m sure she was shooting for (they are easily confused). She said this:
We may WANT abortion to be normal and not stigmatized, but it’s not. And the process of making it so should not depend on the use of teenage girls as soldiers on the front lines.
Feminists want the aborting of a child to be normal. But, guess what? It’s not. Motherhood is normal to humans, feminists, as is nurturing. Giving life yourself or nurturing life once given. That is within us; it’s instinct and female human nature. It is something of which to be proud and it should be honored, not diminished.
Teenage girls will not be your soldiers on your agenda driven and harmful front line. They are their own soldiers and, one day, their children’s soldiers. I know that is hard for you Feminists to believe, but women have minds of their own. They don’t fight for what they are told to fight for; they fight for what they believe, they fight for themselves and they fight for their families.
Your “front line” is being erased. Hopefully, one day your harmful agenda will go the way of the dinosaur (you like science stuff, right?) and we can take back the term Feminist, which you have bastardized beyond recognition.
You are already irrelevant, Feminists. But do you know who will never be irrelevant?
Moms.
(Originally posted to NewsReal)
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Think what would happen if they did it.
itrytobenice (Diary) Friday, April 9th at 11:36AM EST (link)I mean if they really showed the abortion, the way they show eye surgery or liposuction on some of those science kind of shows.
If they actually showed the forceps dragging out the little baby body parts and throwing them in the trash, it would be must see tv, but it would be *the end* of their ‘just a choice’ argument.
On the bad side, another baby would be dead and a bunch of us would have broken hearts from watching it happen. (Except me, I’d avoid it like the plague. Some things I just know I couldn’t take.)
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
They are frustrated
southernilpat Friday, April 9th at 12:30PM EST (link)They’ve already managed to separate the child from the parents, but they just can’t manage to convince the girls themselves that they should abort their babies. Having dealt with a pregnant teenage daughter (and no, Lori, it doesn’t only happen because “Mommy decides to be best buddy to her daughter and not, you know, a Mother.” It can also happen for things like a young girl being targeting by a perverted adult male) I know first hand how the girls are told constantly that their parents have no rights to know anything or make any decisions. But you sure better pay the bill when it’s presented because this is your minor child and you are responsible! Thankfully, even at her young age my daughter couldn’t bring herself to kill her baby. As an adult, she had a tubal pregnancy and even though her tube had ruptured and she required immediate emergency surgery to save her own life, she still felt like a murderer because where there had been a little beating heart before surgery there was now nothing.
Yup, it’s just aggravating them no end that even after all these decades of propaganda they haven’t managed to convince every young girl to not be “punished” with a baby.
Oh, I know that's not the only reason, southernilpat
Lori Ziganto (Diary) Friday, April 9th at 12:56PM EST (link)I was talking about *this* show in particular. That was the case in several episodes. I didn’t want to go into all the reasons …. that’s a whole other post, heh.
Also known as SnarkandBoobs
OK I'll give you that
southernilpat Friday, April 9th at 4:00PM EST (link)I can’t really comment on this show because I refuse to watch it. It’s just a button of mine you managed to inadvertently push LOL
I totally understand and I should have clarified that part better
Lori Ziganto (Diary) Friday, April 9th at 9:26PM EST (link)And I’m very sorry for your daughter’s loss. That must have been incredibly painful for her,
Also known as SnarkandBoobs
Thank you
southernilpat Friday, April 9th at 9:33PM EST (link)nt
Thank you for shining the light
SirGladiator (Diary) Saturday, April 10th at 6:50PM EST (link)on that evil comment by that feminist. There are so many people who love abortion, and actively want to promote the killing of unborn children, its just sickening. People like that need to be exposed, and you did a great job of doing just that. You are also correct that thanks to modern technology there are fewer and fewer people who are, and who will be, supporting such evil people, as more people see for themselves what the rest of us already knew, ‘Its a child, not a choice’.
Praying for the end of the abomination that abortion is!
From ME to You (Diary) Monday, April 12th at 5:55PM EST (link)’nuff said!
Thank You Lori Z
cactusjack Monday, April 12th at 11:03PM EST (link)Lori, forgive me for observing it, but your right on target essay has about three times the impact than if someone of my persuasion (male) had written it on this particular subject and TV show, espeically for women and girls out there who might run across your comment and find some real illumination there. Every body has been talking about the question of how many white guys, or African Americans, or registered Republicans are seen at/comprising the tea parties – but I have been noticing how many women are at them. Of course the networkMM will never call attention to that phenomenon. You conservative ladies of conviction are the real Jeanne D’Arc force in this whole thing I do believe.