“Abortion is not the go-to gag for a laugh,” I wrote last year in what I thought was an edge-pushing issue of Our Truths-Nuestras Verdades, Exhale’s bilingual abortion zine. After past issues on such heady topics as stigma, family, pregnancy and feelings about the fetus, Exhale decided it was time to branch out. We [...]
Posts Tagged ‘TV’
I Was Wrong
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, Exhale, Humor, TV on October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Abortion on TV: Criminal Minds
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, TV on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Special Agent Emily Prentiss is contacted by a childhood friend and told that another childhood friend recently died. It smells of foulplay. Prentiss gets leeway to explore the case and eventually brings the rest of the team along. It turns out that when she was 15 she got pregnant and this childhood [...]
Abortion on TV: Law & Order
Posted in I did, tagged Abortion, TV on January 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A homophobic doctor/researcher is looking for gay gene so parents can terminate pregnancies if gene is detected in fetus. Pregnant woman undergoes research, not knowing the intent, her gay brother-in-law finds out about the study and plants bomb, killing doctor and injuring sister in law who ends up in a coma. Husband of [...]
Abortion on TV: Law and Order CI
Posted in I did, tagged Abortion, TV on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ob/Gyn doctors is brutally murdered and the scene “staged” (i.e., speculum in his mouth) and the first question from the detectives – does he provide abortions? The answer, yes, but only to regular customers and they operate below the radar. Still, one regular customer, a married women with a few kids already finds [...]
Police Kill Young Black Man in Oakland
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Justice, Oakland, Peace, Race, Racism, TV, Video on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shocked, sad, pissed, are some of the words I feel about what happened on New Year’s Day in Oakland. A young father was shot and killed by BART police, while he was laying on his stomach, with his hands behind his back, and with two cops standing over him. So far, the officer [...]
Abortion on TV: House rerun on USA
Posted in I did, tagged Abortion, TV on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Middle aged white woman, impregnantated by gay friend’s sperm, is sick and dying. Medical team wants to terminate pregnancy to save the woman – the fetus is what’s killing her for some obscure medical reason. Dr. Cuddy, another middle aged white woman who is in charge and wants to be a mom too, says no, and to [...]
Abortion on TV: CSI NY
Posted in I did, I think, tagged Abortion, TV on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Creepy, twisted, low-down:”all Elizabeth wanted was to be a mother, a baby of her own” which justifies cutting out the baby of a woman who at one point was going to abort her fetus, and hiding her dead body in a car which is destroyed in a junk yard – a nobody, who doesn’t deserve recognition or love. Just [...]
