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Seinfeld had an episode that touched on abortion. The sitcom generally didn’t get political, which makes it more rewatchable than a lot of today’s fare, but it did mock opponents of abortion although it did also portray Elaine and militant abortion supporters as a bit unhinged.
Interestingly enough, Michael Richards, who played ‘Kramer’, described in his recent memoir, ‘Entrances and Exits’, being nearly aborted by his mother. His mother, who had gotten pregnant out of wedlock, had made a plan to travel to Mexico to obtain an abortion with another woman. That woman died during the abortion. Richards’ mother went to see some Catholic nuns who convinced the Italian-American actor’s mother to have the baby and give him up for adoption, which she did, but proved unable to go through with it and reclaimed him from the adoptive parents.
Seinfeld, as most people know it, wouldn’t exist if abortion had been legal in California in 1949.
Whatever one thinks about abortion, it’s interesting to ponder that portions of our world simply wouldn’t exist if it were easy for mothers to kill off their babies. Seinfeld is just one of them. Steve Jobs, the co-creator of Apple, is another.
Conversely, it’s troubling to think of what’s missing from the world once abortion was made casual and easy.
What discoveries were never made, what stories were never told and what people were never born, and world might we be living in if we hadn’t lost so many children who were killed off before they could be born?
“Conversely, it’s troubling to think of what’s missing from the world once abortion was made casual and easy.”
These might-have-been children number in the millions. God have mercy upon us.
Clinton vetoed a bill that would ban Abortion yet had thousands of acres lock away in Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers to appease the Eco-Freaks. And i have ever watch these modern Sit-Coms too much
The Central Mystery is how a Famously Zionist Jerry Seinfeld maintains warm friendship with a oft-times self-hating Larry David.
That one is a head-scratcher.
The unfortunate results of moving from a life-oriented to death-embracing culture. People prefer sexual hookups without any self responsibility for their obvious,
biological sexual maturity and the potential results from their actions. The self-centered who claim rights to their sexual freedoms without also acknowledging their sexual responsibility is completely nauseating!
These are those among us who spend ridiculous amounts of money to dress up their dogs in dresses and shoes and tuxedos in a futile attempt at creating ” family” that asks only a minimum from them as they happily continue the consumption of the curated madness convincing them this is the same.
Being a parent is the greatest gift ever and all one need do is ask those for whom pregnancy has been impossible.
There are many loving families who would embrace a newborn but in their selfishness, these women simply abhor the inconvenience that pregnancy would impose upon their looks, comfort and finances. The growing life within them must remain a “clump of tissue” easily discarded in spite of all the scientific evidence to the contrary.
A gift of inestimable value summarily discarded on the altar of convenience.
A poem by Alden Nowlan. And I do realise that some women can be put in the most terrible of circumstances. I am not entitled to judge anyone, nor do I want to. But life is so precious. The older I get, the more I realise what a wonderful gift it is.
It’s Good To Be Here
I’m in trouble, she said
to him. That was the first
time in history that anyone
had ever spoken of me.
It was 1932 when she
was just fourteen years old
and men like him
worked all day for
one stinking dollar.
There’s quinine, she said.
That’s bullsh*t, he told her.
Then she cried and then
for a long time neither of them
said anything at all and then
their voices kept rising until
they were screaming at each other
and then there was another long silence and then
they began to talk very quietly and at last he said
well, I guess we’ll just have to make the best of it.
While I lay curled up,
my heart beating,
in the darkness inside her.
Alden Nowlan
Seinfeld had episodes that touched New Yorkers because they actually thought the world somehow reflected NY because people found Seinfeld humorous. The only thing amusing about NY now is Mamdani.
YEAH, sure but, BUT TRUMP!
Yep! The next aborted baby might have been the one to cure cancer, or find a path to unlimited power generation, or end world hunger. Pretty selfish act once you understand what the possible outcomes might be. Of course the opposite is true, the next aborted baby might have been the next Hitler. But we must trust that He has a plan and will win in the end.
Some years ago I was attending a monthly meeting of poets in a house and one lady, a lefty pacifist, read a poem she had written lamenting the horrific death toll of the WWI Battle of the Somme. Immediately after the poem was read, I piped up and said “yes, and think of all the millions killed each year by abortion.” The room froze and then there was much eye=rolling and indignant shifting around of buttocks in chairs.
When I left the room shortly after, no one said goodbye and even the family dog of the host for the meeting, barked at me.
Remembering this moment now, I cherish it very much.
Probably Steve Jobs, too. In his biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson tells the story of Job’s biological single mother being pregnant with him in 1954, apparently an unwanted pregnancy. He writes, “Nor was abortion an easy option in a small Catholic community. So in early 1955, Joanne traveled to San Francisco, where she was taken into the care of a kindly doctor who sheltered unwed mothers, delivered their babies, and quietly arranged closed adoptions.” Isaacson implies that, were it not for that small Catholic community – in addition to abortion being illegal at that time – then there’s a good chance Steve Jobs would have been aborted. Then no iPhone for you.