{"id":90420,"date":"2016-03-17T17:26:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T21:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=90420"},"modified":"2016-03-17T17:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T21:26:37","slug":"scandals-shonda-rhimes-suggests-fathers-dont-deserve-to-know-if-their-children-are-aborted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/scandals-shonda-rhimes-suggests-fathers-dont-deserve-to-know-if-their-children-are-aborted\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Scandal&#8221; creator Shonda Rhimes suggests fathers&#8217; feelings about abortion don&#8217;t matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"attachment_80542\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/news\/scandal-promotes-planned-parenthood-sets-abortion-scene-to-silent-night\/shonda-rhimes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80542\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80542\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shonda-rhimes-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"via stlamerican.com\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shonda-rhimes-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shonda-rhimes.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via stlamerican.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last fall, we <a href=\"\/news\/abortion-fans-think-scandal-makes-them-look-good-it-doesnt\/\">discussed<\/a> an episode of the ABC political drama Scandal that made waves by having main character Olivia Pope abort her baby without telling the presumed father, Fitzgerald Grant (the President of the United States), she was even pregnant. The accolades from the pro-abortion crowd were both <a href=\"\/news\/scandal-promotes-planned-parenthood-sets-abortion-scene-to-silent-night\/\">morally repugnant<\/a> and <a href=\"\/news\/abortion-fans-think-scandal-makes-them-look-good-it-doesnt\/\">politically tone-deaf<\/a>, but <a href=\"\/news\/scandal-actors-comments-allude-much-better-story-abc-probably-wont-tell\/\">subsequent comments<\/a> by the actor who plays Grant, Tony Goldwyn, inadvertently suggested the plot could be redeemed by exploring the devastation of learning she killed his child.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, that redemption now seems unlikely. During a question-and-answer panel about the show earlier this week, show creator Shonda Rhimes <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/tv\/news\/scandal-abortion-shonda-rhimes-reaction-fitz-olivia-1201731223\/\">answered<\/a> a question about whether Grant will find out as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My question is, does he have to? A woman made a choice about her body that she legally has the right to make. I haven\u2019t actually decided, but I wonder sometimes. We talk about it a lot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The original episode was disgustingly titled \u201cBaby, It\u2019s Cold Outside,\u201d and it appears to be just as cold in Ms. Rhimes\u2019s heart. Perhaps a serious story about abortion fallout would be possible in the hands of more thoughtful creators, but not hers.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the flippant disregard for the welfare of others is justified by reciting \u201cher own body\u201d like it\u2019s a magic phrase that makes the presence of a living child with parental bonds to both his or her parents disappear. However self-centered and callous the abortion seeker wants to be is somehow noble\u2014the baby\u2019s body and the father\u2019s parental rights be damned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AbortionProcedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But then, this was always going to be the inevitable impulse from somebody inclined to glorify abortion. Somewhere along the line, what was originally billed as a way for women to assert their equal independence morphed into a way to assert dominance. Male opinions of abortion are <a href=\"\/news\/bernie-sanders-smears-men-belittles-women-abortion-tweet\/\">preemptively deemed insincere and opportunistic<\/a>. Fathers who dare to grieve for the deaths of their sons and daughters are <a href=\"\/news\/amanda-marcottes-new-low-demonizing-grieving-fathers-of-aborted-children\/\">met with unbelievable scorn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the difference between rights and demands, between self-interest and selfishness. When pursuing a rational interest within one\u2019s actual rights, you never have to worry about inflicting tangible harm on someone else because you\u2019ve been respecting their rights all along. Even rights exercises that produce non-tangible harm, such as taking offense at ugly speech, aren\u2019t normally with the dismissiveness Rhimes displays. In most contexts other than abortion, society widely recognizes that freedom comes with the moral responsibility to respect (within reason) the impact of our actions on those around us.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, even if there were a \u201cright to choose\u201d abortion, it wouldn\u2019t erase the basic moral imperative to show compassion for a father\u2019s grief, even at the expense of your own comfort.<\/p>\n<p>But then, subjecting yourself to a father\u2019s feelings of agony and betrayal would be kind of a buzzkill for the \u201ccourageous woman exercising her autonomy\u201d power trip Shonda Rhimes wants to wrap around abortion. More importantly, it would reopen the conversation about what abortion really is\u2026 and despite all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/shonda-rhimes-year-of-yes-92y-talk_us_564201a6e4b0411d30727456\">accolades<\/a> she\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oprah\/status\/277964761075957760\">showered with<\/a> for \u201ccourage,\u201d that\u2019s a story she\u2019s much too scared to touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, we discussed an episode of the ABC political drama Scandal that made waves by having main character Olivia Pope abort her baby without telling the presumed father, Fitzgerald Grant (the President of the United States), she was even pregnant. The accolades from the pro-abortion crowd were both morally repugnant and politically tone-deaf, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":80543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[599,19,3020,543,3176,1400,1011,6274,6149,6273,6353,5522],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Scandal&quot; creator Shonda Rhimes suggests fathers&#039; feelings about abortion don&#039;t matter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A father\u2019s feelings of agony would be a buzzkill for the \u201ccourageous woman exercising her autonomy\u201d power trip Shonda Rhimes wants to wrap around abortion.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/scandals-shonda-rhimes-suggests-fathers-dont-deserve-to-know-if-their-children-are-aborted\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Scandal&quot; 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