ABC Touts One-sided, Positive Take on Pregnant 'Man'

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On Friday's "Good Morning America," for the second day in a row, and the third time in a little over a week, the ABC program promoted the story of a transgendered man who is having a baby via artificial insemination. At no time did GMA feature any guest to challenge or question the psychological ramifications for a child who was born from a pregnant "father."

[Audio available here]

During the April 4 segment on the subject, GMA guest news anchor David Muir described Thomas Beatie's decision as "very controversial." One would assume that a controversial decision would have two sides to it. But over the course of three segments, totaling ten minutes and 16 seconds, the closest the network program got was on April 3, when psychologist Jeffrey Gardere mildly advised, "It really is incumbent upon this individual, his wife, to try to give this as much dignity as possible, to not make it a joke, to not make it that something that's cheap [sic]."

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On Friday's program, reporter Andrea Canning played a clip from Beatie's appearance on Oprah Winfrey's daytime program and then approvingly described him as "the man the world has been waiting to meet." While discussing the issue on March 26, co-host Chris Cuomo tentatively asked an obstetrician, who approved of the pregnancy, if there were any psychological implications for the child. After being told that only love was necessary, Cuomo quickly concurred and added, "It's a good point to make, doctor. Oddity aside, biology aside, it is all about love of this child and as long as that's present, everything else is really going to be normal."

Finally, as the Culture and Media Institute's Kristen Fyfe pointed out in an April 3 posting on the subject, GMA and other shows insist on referring to Beatie as a pregnant man. Of course, this ignores the fact that men simply do not give birth.

A transcript of the April 4 "Good Morning America" segment, which aired at 8:04am, follows:

DAVID MUIR: We are learning more this morning about the Oregon man who is now six months pregnant. He and his wife are going public with their very controversial decision to have a child. Here's ABC's Andrea Canning.

THOMAS BEATIE [at hospital]: She's kicking. I can't believe she's inside me.

CANNING: It's an incredible sight. The first images of pregnant dad, Thomas Beatie laying on an exam table, looking at his unborn daughter on an ultra sound as Oprah's cameras capture it all.

BEATIE: Now that we know the pregnancy is healthy, these are tears of joy.

CANNING: The man the world has been waiting to meet appears in People magazine today and opened up to Oprah on Thursday.

BEATIE: I feel it's not a male or female desire to want to have a child, it's a human desire.

OPRAH WINFREY: Okay.

BEATIE: And I'm a person and I have the right to have my own biological child.

CANNING: Thomas is a transgender male who conceived with artificial insemination. His wife Nancy actually performed the procedure herself at home with a syringe. They acknowledge their situation is controversial, but stress their daughter will be raised in a traditional home.

NANCY BEATIE: He's going to be the father and I'm going to be the mother.

CANNING: For now, the Beaties say they are just taking the challenges of their bizarre new life right now.

BEATIE: This is what they look like now. This is all I can do. Unfortunately they don't make man maternity clothes so I'm kind of stuck.

CANNING: For "Good Morning America," Andrea Canning, ABC News, New York.

—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.


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FREAK!!!

Sheesh!

This guy/gal is a freak! Why isn't he/she portrayed as a freak!

This isn't normal no matter how loving ABC wants to pretend it is.

Your right this person "it"

Your right this person "it" IS A FREAK! It shows just how corrupt that liberals are. This PC crap has gone too far!

This whole sordid situation

This whole sordid situation is clearly about one thing, $$$$$$$$$.

This strange (really STRANGE) couple doesn't seem to care about the mental trauma they are inflicting on this child. Chances are good this kid will grow up with so many mental problems that could easily lead to suicide or mass murder, etc. Their supposed human desire to bear children is so much BS. Follow this case for the next 20 years and I'm sure you'll see nothing but despair for this child.

Meanwhile these two losers will be reaping the ignobility they deserve, but hey, they'll have lots of bucks to cover their shame.

What a difference 100 years makes

A hundred years ago he'd be touring with the Ripley's Believe It or Not train.

Today, well, we understand. . . .

Gag me.

Mica

But it's only as bizarre as the "Tattooed Woman"

No freak of nature like the 2-headed goat.  The real freak show is what's going on in this woman's brain.

♣ a seal

Hey Cool, can you explain to me . . .

I'm a little confused.

If 'she' became a 'he,' then didn't they put a d*** on her?

If so, how did 'his wife' artificially inseminate, umm, 'it?'

And which orafice will the child be born from? - - -A question a doctor may ask in this situation.

It's a MIRACLE !!!

They still refer to this FREAK show as a Miracle.

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.

→ No, Mica

The entire purpose of this media hoax is to confuse people, thereby blurring the lines of sexual identity.

♣ a seal

This whole thing from day

This whole thing from day one that I first heard about this and saw the picture of this gal on television carrying this child I bowed my head and prayed for God to help this country....

I still am.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

bigtimer, I did the same

bigtimer,

I did the same thing. My 14 year old saw this story on Oprah yesterday (before I pulled the plug), she was completely freaked out. She came running into the other room...she thought it was "gross", as she put it. Out of the mouth of babes.

 

Hi msh... I am so glad

Hi msh...

I am so glad our kids are grown....trying to explain all this outrageous BS to a child now must be a heck of a job for some.

I just shake my head in sadness anymore .....

I am outraged by what has happened in this country, outraged by the msm....simple as that.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

Me too, bigtimer

I'm glad my kids are grown, too.

I remember telling my kids not to watch MTV. Those videos were waaay to sexual for my taste as a parent.

But as we slowly accept the degeneration of society, those MTV videos seem tame now.

Pregnant 'man' will be tame 10 years from now.

We've come a long way when you couldn't say 'helicopter' on t.v.

You had to say 'helio-copter.'

 

If he gets cravings

He can have some of the Chicago Stuffed Pizza's I made this weekend!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULHHE0bO-ZQ

Now THAT is America! 

I love religion.  It keeps most people from killing me and stealing my stuff.

Pretzels

Can you imagine the shape of those with the liberal bent of "whatever" look like when they try to get their pointy little heads around this story's concept? Let's see, I'm for abortion on demand, but I support a transgendered male/female the fantastic experience to be a mother 'er father (?) both/neither, who is married to a woman (?) or living with a man 'er woman 'er another amalgamation of sexes but not commited enough to marry but want a child so I can play with him/her/it or dress him/her/it up like a pet or until I want to fulfill myself doing something else to make myself happy...ENOUGH IS ENOUGH SICKOS!

Only liberals could be

Only liberals could be stupid enough to believe that a man could bear a child. And apparently, those liberals all got their biology education through the public school system.

Evolution ???

Isn't this more proof of evolution?

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.

It seems to be proof that

It seems to be proof that evolution has finally found a way to adapt to harmful mutations and yet countinue to reproduce

If this person still has a

If this person still has a uertus ...in my book that consitutes a .......FEMALE.

What is the deal .....it changed it's name....is now legaly a man, so it's gets pregnent and now is legealy a pregnent man.

it still has female parts that make it possible to have a baby.....so it still is a female even if it is SO menta;ly challanged that is thinks is a man.

 

 I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist

What "it" thinks is subjective and irrelevant

The chromosomes are definitive. If "it" has XX "it" is a female, if XY "it" is a male. This can be determined in an objective, scientific manner from a very small tissue sample.

 

How Stupid is the MSM - -or do they think we're dumb

First of all, This person is a Female.   That's how it works MSM.  And you can say "Man is Pregnant" all day long, and twice on Sunday, but a Virgin Birth by a Man it is not.

It's a Pregnant Woman - - Woman by Birth -- and she may shave and had her Breast removed, but Woman by Birth cannot be Reported as "Man is Pregnant". 

The Public isn't that Stupid.   Evidently the MSM thinks we're dumber than dirt.   

JayT... Exactly...that is

JayT...

Exactly...that is why I said SHE in my post...how dumb indeed do they think we are out here..it is insulting, more than that this whole thing is absolutely despicable to me.

My heart goes out to this child. 

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

I should have waited to

I should have waited to read your post before i posted mine.

i coundlnt agree more.

 

 I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist

RedDrag 310 +1 Brilliant people think alike

but CNN think like Liberals.....are they too politically correct to call her a Woman ?

the only explanation for

the only explanation for this person is

 

Mr. F

  

 

I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist

MSM anti-family agenda

The cheery, unquestioning approvals for this freak show belie the MSM's desire to see anything traditional crumble into dust along with its "do it if it feels good" ethos.

There's going to be a tremendous amount of psychological baggage this kid has to bear and not a single person in the MSM wants to bring it up.

So if I wanted to become

So if I wanted to become the first female to father a child, I would have to take female hormones to lessen my facial and general body hair, could get breast implants to become more feminene, and would keep my properly working male organs, impregnate a woman and the press would come running to my door?

Darth Dutch

That's your ticket Dutch!

That's your ticket Dutch! We'll be watching for you on CNN next year! :-)

 

Dutch, my plan will sell books, too

I'll do you one better!

I'll keep myself male, add all the necessary and proper female body parts, then I'll f*** myself and give birth on pay-per-view!

I'll earn a million I tell ya!

" . . . but through it all, I stood tall, and did it my waaay." - - My new theme song

People need to get a grip!

This is NOT a pregnant man!

This, is a pregnant WOMAN who thinks she is a man.

Holy crap! Give us all a break from these freeks.

MSM fiinds another way to create gray

My mother, my health and biology teachers told me that only female mammals can give birth.  Given my teaching and experience, if it can either get pregnant or give birth, it isn't a man.

I do not believe that the folks in the MSM are that stupid: lazy, self-centered, narcissistic, and liberal, yes, but no stupid.  So what is going on here?  It is a combination of another freak seeking their 15 minutes of fame, the MSM sensationalizing a freak to gin up ratings and sell papers, and the Liberal MSM folks chipping away at the traditional family unit by attempting to normalize a freak.

PT Barnum would have been proud! 

 

Deja vu?

 

"Mr." Beatie is no Demi Moore. Wonder who took that iconic photo, and no wonder the MSM fell in live with it. If she was a big fat ugly slob, this story would never have seen the light of day I betcha. But they had that bee-yoo-tiful poignant photo... Well as we all know, appearances, not substance or facts, are the most important thing to this crowd.

Demi: http://www.magazine....

Tommy: http://www.nydailyne...

Check out the wiki page for Demi's 1991 Vanity Fair pregnant cover-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demi_Moore#Vanity_Fair_controversy

it was SUPER CONTROVERSIAL and Demi was a normal woman for crying out loud! This was 1991 not 1921!

Excerpt: "Some retailers pulled the issue from newsstands, while others only sold it in a brown paper bag." 

Look how far we've 'evolved', thanks to the radicalization of the MSM. It's not that Good of A Morning, America.

As I Stated In Kristen's Discussion

Pathetic Liberal Media Bias

 

April 4, 2008 - 12:22 ET by KalihiwaiBeach

is exactly what this is. Oprah is just as disgusting.  They are propping up a pair of lesbians - one of which has chosen to look like a man - and are parading them around as some kind of miracle.  I find it disgusting.  'He' doesnt even look like a man.  'He' looks more like an IT.  She used to be a very pretty woman from the 'before' pictures I've seen.  Now why would a person who identified as a man but is a woman and started the sex alteration procedure not follow through and get the female parts removed and have a male member attached?  I'll tell you why.  Because she is a LESBIAN   duuuuuuhhhhhh

 

imagine Rosie O'Donnell sans boobs with a twist

Another Reason

Now why would a person who identified as a man but is a woman and
started the sex alteration procedure not follow through and get the
female parts removed and have a male member attached?

 

Maybe because it costs $120,000 and isn't covered by health insurance. It's not one operation, it takes about a dozen over several years.

Oh yes, and the 30% success rate doesn't help either.

But the hormones can work wonders, so many guys opt for those alone. More can't afford it anyway, even if they're willing to take the risks.

I can't really blame you for not knowing that. Few do. It's not exactly the usual topic of conversation over breakfast, is it?

Poor Child.

It is pathetic how this person's vanity and selfishness is set out on display and praised by the Liberal media. This is hubris at its worst. Only the Liberal media could rejoice in a story of such perversion!

I was utterly disgusted when I heard about this. All I could imagine was how this poor child is going to be affected all of her life and how this could spawn duplicate behavior in other self absorbed people.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
Fulton J. Sheen