My Message to NBC

I sent an email to NBC today. It was a ridiculously small action considering how angry I still am about the incident, but still, I guess it was the only thing tangible I could do about it today. I offer no apologies if this offends you; at least then you'll know where I stand. Below was my message:

While channel surfing last night, I stopped for just a few moments on Last Comic Standing and was completely disgusted and appalled by what I saw. One of the female contestants was making jokes about the topic of abortion, having had an abortion, and saying that she is "pro-life" - for her own life, that is.

Shocked is not even a strong enough word to express the outrage and disgust that I felt. It is one thing that other disgusting issues like pornography and masturbation have become the topics of commonplace jokes on television, but to joke about abortion just goes beyond any sense of decency for network television. In case you haven't noticed, NBC, abortion is a deeply divisive issue in this country, and to those of us who believe that it constitutes the mass murder of children, in my mind her jokes were as awful, horrifying, and inappropriate as someone to joke about the Holocaust of World War II.

Is this what we are reduced as a society to laughing at? The murder of children? Are your programmers and writers so starved for something original that they must resort to such low-life inhumane tactics such as a "talent search" for truly talentless individuals?

Even as I recall this incident last night, I am filled with horror to think that my son has to grow up in a world where the value of human life is so cheap. Please, NBC, use a little sense next time. Why put such trash on network television? Can't you find something else for us to laugh at instead of topics that fill me with nausea at the thought of what they are implying?

As a side note, I also happen to be five months pregnant - and the little movements inside of me that I feel every day are a constant reminder of the life that is growing there: life that even though it is contained inside my body for the time being, should never, ever be treated so casually.