{"id":1959,"date":"2012-02-09T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2012-02-09T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T18:23:45","slug":"remembering-tvs-house-and-a-startling-episode-dealing-with-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/02\/remembering-tvs-house-and-a-startling-episode-dealing-with-abortion.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering TV&#8217;s &#8220;House&#8221; and a startling episode dealing with abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goodbye, Dr. House. <\/strong>After eight seasons, it&#8217;s been announced that TV&#8217;s most arrogant MD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/house-fox-final-season-288250\">won&#8217;t be returning in the fall<\/a>.\u00a0 Like it or not, the series was one of the few to show any courage on the issue of abortion.\u00a0 Witness the scene below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"House With The Cute Fetus !!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0DGWG3Tl7qQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bighollywood.breitbart.com\/bshapiro\/2012\/02\/09\/the-house-that-even-handedness-built\/\">From Ben Shapiro at Big Hollywood<\/a>: <em>Most famously, House featured a very pro-life episode in 2007, \u201cFetal Position,\u201d in which an unborn child reached out of the womb and touched House\u2019s hand, mirroring the famous photograph.\u00a0 That was mirrored by a pro-choice episode that same season that made the case for abortion for a religious rape victim.\u00a0 That was House\u2019s style.\u00a0 When I interviewed <\/em>(Executive Producer David)<em> Shore for my latest book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Primetime-Propaganda-True-Hollywood-Story\/dp\/0061934771\">Primetime Propaganda<\/a>, here\u2019s what he told me about the abortion episodes: \u201cAs you can imagine, we\u2019re in Hollywood, we\u2019ve got our share of rabid left wing Democrats here.\u00a0 And \u2026 our writing staff has the makeup you\u2019d basically expect of a Hollywood writing staff, and I remember when we were doing \u2018Fetal Position,\u2019 there is that image of that little finger of the fetus clasping Dr. House\u2019s hand.\u00a0 And it was a powerful image.\u00a0 And we recognized at the time that\u2019s going to go up on billboards and websites for pro-life organizations.\u00a0 But it was true, and it was accurate, and it was real.\u00a0 And the last thing I want to do is, I happen to be pro-choice, but the last thing I want to do is to give false information or convince people of my argument. I think that\u2019s just not the way to approach things.\u00a0 It\u2019s a difficult choice, and it is a difficult issue.\u00a0 And I think treating it as anything different than that is dishonest and ultimately counterproductive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Goodbye, Dr. House. After eight seasons, it&#8217;s been announced that TV&#8217;s most arrogant MD won&#8217;t be returning in the fall.\u00a0 Like it or not, the series was one of the few to show any courage on the issue of abortion.\u00a0 Witness the scene below:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31,1],"tags":[35,2393,2390,2389,2388,2391,2395,2394,2392],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-television","category-uncategorized","tag-1-thessalonians-511","tag-abortion-2","tag-ben-shapiro-at-big-hollywood","tag-dr-house","tag-goodbye","tag-house-featured-a-very-pro-life-episode-in-2007","tag-primetime-propaganda","tag-tvs-house","tag-fetal-position"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remembering TV&#039;s &quot;House&quot; and a startling episode dealing with abortion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/02\/remembering-tvs-house-and-a-startling-episode-dealing-with-abortion.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remembering TV&#039;s &quot;House&quot; and a startling episode dealing with abortion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 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