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There’s a new faux reality show that is sure to get people talking…but does the end justify the means?

When we were praying outside of the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Washington D.C. last month, the teens were appalled when one of the deathscorts, after successfully ushering a client through the door, did an actual cartwheel.  Dawn Johnson, Obama’s pick for “Office of Legal Counsel” has made these and other comments in the past:

– Choosing life for a child is comparable to “involuntary servitude”

– Pro-life activists use the “intimidation carried out by the Ku Klux Klan"

– Being pregnant turns mothers into “fetal containers”

– Conceiving a child is analogous to “being struck by drunk drivers”

– Pro-abortion leaders should never portray “abortions as tragedies”

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Obama himself has called children of unplanned pregnancies “punishments”.  Here’s some more quotes about the unborn…

Joycelyn Elders:15th Surgeon General of the United States

"We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children."

"Myself, I’d as soon weep over my taken tonsils or my absent appendix as snivel over ["My abortions! All five of them."] I had a choice, and I chose life – mine." 
Julie Burchill, British feminist and abortion advocate, from "Abortion: still a dirty word" in The Guardian, 5/25/2005

"[T]he abortion patient has a right not only to be rid of the growth, called a fetus, in her body, but also has a right to a dead fetus. . . [I] never have any intention of trying to protect the fetus, if it can be saved…"
Dr. Robert Crist, abortion doctor, testifying in Federal Court in 1980.

These quotes and thousands more, are a testament to how far we have fallen as human beings.  Life, unborn life, unwanted life, imperfect lives…all are expendable.  We have managed to dehumanize humanity.

However, nothing I have seen nor heard has gone as far a new web based “reality” show, where players determine whether or not “contestants” should abort or not abort the children they are carrying. (The women are not actually pregnant). From LifeSiteNews:

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – A new Internet-based web site reality show called "Bump" is generating intense opposition and controversy. The program is a fake reality show that has viewers deciding which of the pregnant women "contestants" will kill their child in an abortion.

While the show sets up various situations about when it might be advisable for a girl to get an abortion — such as one girl who is in an abusive relationship and another who cheated on her husband who is serving in the military — Kemper says it still results in promoting abortion.

"The problem is that this show is merely pulling on the heartstrings of people by taking them down rabbit trails and away from the core issue of the personhood of the child in the womb. This is a classic debate tactic of pro-abortion activists; they play on the emotions and stay away from the fact that we are talking about the life of a human person," he says.

"While I understand the desire for honest discussion about abortion, it should not be centered around situations in which people may seek one, but rather centered on what abortion is. The discussion needs to be focused on the life and personhood of the child in the womb, the main victim of abortion," he adds.

Kemper says he is "deeply concerned" that the show will water down true abortion discussion.

He is asking pro-life advocates to go to the web site of the show and promote respect for unborn children and better options for women than abortion.

From  Kathleen Parker at the Washington Post:

At first glance, bump-the-show sounds like a reasonable response to "Bump," the show — a new, faux-reality Web-based docudrama featuring actors trying to decide whether to have an abortion.

The idea for the "show," which launches Monday, was inspired, of all things, by Barack Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame University last year. When the president said he wanted "to find ways to communicate about a workable solution to the problem of unintended pregnancies," executive producer Dominic Iocco conceived "Bump."

Beginning Feb. 1, episodes will appear each week on Mondays and Thursdays, both on the Web site (BumptheShow.com) and on YouTube, and spectators are invited to comment. A pilot, which appeared on the eve of the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, already had drawn 147 comments by Friday, ranging from criticism of the acting and the doctor’s make-up to heartfelt accounts of personal experiences with abortion.

Although the idea is to humanize the debate, none of the characters is especially sympathetic. Each of the three women ostensibly selected from a "pool" of 300 is pregnant under varying circumstances with which viewers are expected to relate. To be clear, no one is really pregnant. The actors are all young and white, despite the fact that blacks have abortions at five times the rate of whites. The doctor, however, is African American — a man who combines the reassuring manner of Marcus Welby with the ethereal wisdom of Bagger Vance.

So let me know what you think.   Does this show do a  service to the Pro Life side by bringing the topic of abortion front and center and allowing people to see it’s horror, or does it in the end only mock the unborn child, turning him into a form of cheap entertainment…the butt of a 37 year joke?  Should it focus more on what abortion “is” or more one why women choose to have them?  Will you watch?

NOTE: THE IS A FAUX REALITY SHOW.  THE WOMEN ARE NOT ACTUALLY PREGNANT, THEY DID NOT REALLY GET PERMISSION FROM A DOCTOR TO DOCUMENT UNPLANNED PREGNANCIES.