An Abortion Episode on Television
Not sure how many of you watch "Ms. Pat". It's a rather "interesting" show. There is a LOT of profanity, and a lot of difficult background. But it's the story of a really wonderful family.
At any rate, in this episode, the mother finds out that she's pregnant. She's in her late 40's, she has 4 kids, AND, she has had her tubes tied - this should have been impossible.
She decides to have an abortion. She knows that telling her husband will be hard. Well, he loses his mind and tells her that he wants her to have the child. And she says "It's My Body." And that she is going to have an abortion, regardless of his views.
The next afternoon, he is talking to his sister-in-law. It turns out that he refused to have a vasectomy. And he can't see anything wrong with that. His wife comes in and he *announces* that he does not support her getting an abortion. She tells him that it doesn't matter - she had it done in the morning. He grabs her and shakes her. She pushes him away. He walks out punching something. She walks out breaking some dishes...
My husband and I were watching and he says "she should have told him she was going that morning". I argued that she told him that she was having one, and that was enough. What was the point in saying when if he wasn't going to support her. Husband said "something could have happened to her". I said - they would have called him, as emergency contact. We yelled about it for a few minutes.
I think she did the right thing, all the way around. She told him. And then she got it done. Without his support, which just made it harder, but in her mind, it needed to be done, so she did it.
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