{"id":92839,"date":"2016-04-18T15:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T19:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=92839"},"modified":"2016-04-18T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T19:51:10","slug":"big-bang-theory-episode-calls-preborn-baby-a-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/big-bang-theory-episode-calls-preborn-baby-a-person\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Big Bang Theory&#8221; episode calls preborn baby &#8220;a person&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A recent episode of the popular CBS sitcom \u201cThe Big Bang Theory\u201d has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2016\/04\/13\/cbs-show-big-bang-theory-celebrates-the-humanity-of-unborn-children\/\">drawn attention<\/a> in pro-life circles for featuring a high-profile affirmation of personhood in the womb.<\/p>\n<p>During the show\u2019s April 7 episode, a scene depicts Howard and his pregnant wife Bernadette listening to a fetal microphone, after which they are overjoyed to hear their preborn child\u2019s heartbeat. Their friend Raj even comments, \u201cYou guys made a person.\u201d While <a href=\"\/news\/naral-spent-super-bowl-50-complaining-babies\/\">depictions of wanted preborn babies<\/a> in popular media are fairly common, it is rarer to see explicit declarations that they are \u201cpersons\u201d this early in pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jbl-UUh1gWo\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jbl-UUh1gWo&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abortion itself is not a frequent topic of mainstream entertainment either, but according to a <a href=\"\/news\/hollywoods-abortion-problem-or-new-low-in-pro-choice-paranoia\/\">2014 study<\/a> out of the University of California-San Francisco, 91% of abortions in the history of TV and film are depicted as safe, while many of the unsafe fictional abortions were depicted as such to promote a <a href=\"\/news\/naral-spokeswoman-lies-about-abortion-on-complicit-msnbc\/\">debunked pro-abortion narrative<\/a> about the danger of illegal abortions in the years before <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the episode at National Review Online on Friday, Jonah Goldberg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/434096\/big-bang-theory-abortion-truth-comes-through?target=author&amp;tid=897\">observed<\/a> that it ran counter to Hillary Clinton\u2019s <a href=\"\/news\/hillary-clinton-calls-unborn-persons-denies-constitutional-rights\/\">recent claim<\/a> that the \u201cunborn person\u201d does not \u201cexist\u201d under the law, and highlighted a common cultural misconception that personhood depends on a child\u2019s wantedness.<\/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>\u201c[T]he moment Rachel from <em>Friends<\/em> or Murphy Brown or Bernadette chooses to keep it, the \u2018it\u2019 stops being an it, and becomes a he or she,\u201d Goldberg writes. But if \u201cover here an unborn child is a person but over there it isn\u2019t, and the only thing distinguishing the two is someone\u2019s feelings, we\u2019ve got a problem. And it\u2019s not just a problem of language.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent episode of the popular CBS sitcom \u201cThe Big Bang Theory\u201d has drawn attention in pro-life circles for featuring a high-profile affirmation of personhood in the womb. 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