The television show Friday Night Lights followed their episode dealing with abortion with another episode that only affirmed the pro-abortion perspective that was being sold in the episode I wrote about in the last article.

I won’t summarize the entire episode but here are a few clips:

In this episode, Becky, the girl who had the abortion, thanks her friend Tim, who offered his silent support of her abortion and lets him know that he was the most helpful person to her through the hardest thing she’s ever had to go through, namely, having an abortion.

The father of Becky’s now deceased child, Luke, comes from an evangelical Christian home, and his mom is, according to a NY Times “Arts” review of the episode, “portrayed as a narrow-minded fanatic who mistakes her own narcissism for virtue.”

Becky tells Luke at one point that she had a good conversation with his mom, yet, Luke’s Christian mother is also shown working behind the scenes to make somebody pay for the abortion killing of her grandchild. Perhaps in a following episode she will be vindicated but in this episode and the previous episode at least, she is placed in a rather humiliating light.  She represents the pro-life position to the viewer and she is portrayed as emotionally deranged.

The pro-life position however, is not based on emotion.  It is based on observable facts.  Don’t misunderstand, Friday Night Lights doesn’t have to be fair to the pro-life position.  The writers are free to write what they want to write.  However, it should be known that they are not portraying the pro-life position accurately or fairly.  This was a pro-abortion message.

And a significant part of that message was directed to men.  That message?  ”Men, shut up.  What advice or counsel could you possibly give that would help a young woman in this position?”  That’s my take on it anyway.  Tim was the silent, passive, hero.  Well, he did offer to give Becky a ride to the abortion clinic like a good lad.

My hope is that men rebel against this message.  And I don’t just mean that I hope they shout louder at the next pro-life rally.  I hope men take on a role of leadership in our culture that affirms the sanctity of human life in every possible way.

The pro-abortion lobby, already plunged deep into an abyss of insanity, would now have us believe that abortion affirms the sanctity of human life.  Abortion, though emotionally difficult for women, affirms their womanhood and can be a beneficial solution to the problem child nestled in the womb.  That’s the pro-abortion message behind these episodes of Friday Night Lights.