Fox News actively supports the agenda of those who seek to limit women's reproductive rights. Fox & Friends provided a generous platform for opponents of the ACA's birth control mandate. *Fox continues to promote the lie that emergency birth control is abortion. Megyn Kelly trashed pro-choice TX gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis when she stood (literally) against the draconian TX abortion bill. Bill O'Reilly relentlessly attacked an abortion provider (even after Dr. Tiller's murder), maligned Planned Parenthood and women who have abortions. Fox obsessed about the Dr. Gosnell case and equated his practice with legal abortion. But Fox's "The Five," which proudly proclaims its anti-choice agenda, seems to have become Fox's newest "pro-life" champion. Recently, the show focused its ire on a woman who was contemplating abortion as a career move. Last night, the slut shaming continued with an attack on a woman who filmed her own abortion in order to counteract the type of anti-choice agitprop articulated on this edition of The Five. Surprisingly, Benghazi wasn't mentioned!
Anti-choice slut shamer, Greg Gutfeld opened the show with Emily Letts video of her own abortion. As she explains in a Cosmo article, she did this in order to counteract the culture of stigma and guilt around abortion. Gutfeld worked in the anti-choice meme that abortion is murder when, after she said that she wasn't ready to give life, he quipped "but you can take one." In attempting to further denigrate her, he visibly smirked as he spoke about her aversion to birth control pills. He asked "was this stunt nursed from the beginning, does it matter, it's just matter." He wondered if Cosmo would provide the same coverage for childbirth and accused Cosmo of being a "villain" in "taking advantage of somebody who needs help" (Anti-choice belief that women aren't capable of making that decision about abortion because of mental impairment or coercion) He snarked that she used her fetus as a "prop" for the column and that if she wins an award "she can put it next to the sonogram to remind her it was worth it."
Andrea Tantaros, who has promoted the anti-choice lie that emergency contraception is abortion, reinforced the aforementioned anti-choice lie about women being incapable of making an informed decision about abortion. She diagnosed Letts as being "deeply disturbed." She asked if Lett's place of employment should have ordered Letts to take a psychological exam. Tantaros said "it was positively disgusting" that "she didn't seem to care about the death of this child." Like Gutfeld, she accused Letts of having "a clear disregard for human life" in "creating this baby as a stunt." (She used the anti-choice lexicon of "child," "baby," and "human life.")
Gutfeld accused her of trying to get attention. While Juan Williams was depressed about the topic, he tried to argue Lett's point of view. Bolling, who will never have an unplanned pregnancy, was disgusted that Letts said it was a "positive experience." Bolling accused her of not caring about "life" (anti-choice word) and, in a jawdroppingly inane moment, described her act as "genocide" which, of course, refers to large scale murder of a group of people by others intent on eliminating them - although the anti-choice movement accuses black women, who have abortions, of committing genocide on African-Americans.
Dana Perino worked an anti-Obama, anti-choice lie: “So even when Americans are asked to pay for the contraception for everybody, they won’t take the pills that are free because it might cause weight gain?" (Fact Check - insurance companies are paying for the birth control as are the women who are paying for their policies with either labor and, in some cases, their money) The married, but childless, Perino "wondered" about the father. Her nest comment was straight out of the anti-choice playbook about "how, if a child is wanted, it's celebrated...but if the baby is not wanted, it's OK to destroy the baby, it's not a life." Tantaros promulgated the anti-choice belief that this might not work out for Letts, in the long run. (Anti-choice fantasy that all women regret their abortions)
Emily Letts is a very brave woman who is challenging the slut shaming anti-choice theology exemplified on The Five. She said that she has gotten death threats. Thanks to The Five taking her story national, she'll get lots more from those who, like those on The Five, are "pro-life."
http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/01/22/foxs-tantaros-suggests-feminism-encouraged-teac/192351
Yeah, that clip and this are why I have nothing left to say about this show. Well, that and Outnumbered does sexism (the only thing The Five ever had going for it) a hundred times worse.