Tonight marked the beginning of another online viral show. But this is a little bit more controversial, let's say. This involves the fictional stories of three pregnant women who are contemplating what to do with their unexpected pregnancies, and where the mothers, the doctor, and (here's a first) THE VIEWER gets to choose whether or not the baby gets to live or get killed.
I think I'm gonna be sick.
The Idea for Bump was conceived after President Barack Obama's infamous commencement speech at Notre Dame University after Obama said that we need "to find ways to communicate about a workable solution to the problem of unintended pregnancies", according to the show's executive producer Dominic Iocco.
The show follows three mothers: a MARRIED woman (Katie) whose husband is serving in Iraq, a mother of two (Denise) who was a victim of domestic violence (and really loves red candies), and a woman (Hailey) who apparently just wants to be on a reality show with her boyfriend (Jason).
The biggest problem I have with this show, whose pilot appeared on the 37th anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, is that it not only leaves the decision to the mothers, the doctor (who said "I don't save lives, I'm not that kind of doctor" hmmmm...), but it lets the viewers help decide whether or not these women should abort their children in a sort of online gambling kinda fashion. The pilot has garnered over 140 comments on both the show's website (bumptheshow.com) and YouTube account. From these comments helps in the decion on whether or not there will be an abortion or not.
Pro-life or pro-abortion, there I'm sure this we can agree on this: this method is pretty horrid. Has our society really come to this? I fear for this society because the issue of abortion has been reduced to an online gambling viral show. Forget the fact that it's fiction, the point is the issue is too serious to be reduced to "entertainment".
Really America, have you completely lost your mind?
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