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The full article, front-page news on last Sunday's Observer, can be read in full here.
Well this is not the first time C4 have broadcast something so controversial. I myself watched the post-mortem broadcast by the channel last year. I had also been to Van Hagen's exhibition of plastersised corpses in London.
But are Channel 4 going too far. Whatever your opinion on abortion, is C4 correct to broadcast such a terminal and grim programme?
On a personal note, I am against abortion being used as a form of contraception, but believe in extreme circumstances abortion could be the best option for both mother and child. I also think that such a programme could even help the "anti-abortion" front - although I think C4 are doing this more to educate, inform, shock, and feed the nations morbid curiosity.
Will you be watching.
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The Observer posted:
An abortion is to be shown on British television for the first time. A Channel 4 programme will also use previously banned images of aborted foetuses in one of the most controversial television programmes broadcast in Britain.
My Foetus, to be screened at the end of this month, will show a woman who is four weeks pregnant having a 'vacuum pump' abortion. The results of the procedure are then placed on a petri dish and shown to viewers.
They will also see pictures of foetuses aborted at 10 weeks and 21 weeks, when limbs and a face can clearly be seen. Similar images were banned by broadcasters, who were backed by the courts, as being 'offensive' when the Pro-life Alliance tried to show them as part of a general election broadcast in 2001.
Channel 4 said the programme, which has been seen by The Observer, only uses the images in the context of a wider discussion about the battle between the pro-choice and pro-life sides of the abortion debate.
My Foetus, to be screened at the end of this month, will show a woman who is four weeks pregnant having a 'vacuum pump' abortion. The results of the procedure are then placed on a petri dish and shown to viewers.
They will also see pictures of foetuses aborted at 10 weeks and 21 weeks, when limbs and a face can clearly be seen. Similar images were banned by broadcasters, who were backed by the courts, as being 'offensive' when the Pro-life Alliance tried to show them as part of a general election broadcast in 2001.
Channel 4 said the programme, which has been seen by The Observer, only uses the images in the context of a wider discussion about the battle between the pro-choice and pro-life sides of the abortion debate.
The full article, front-page news on last Sunday's Observer, can be read in full here.
Well this is not the first time C4 have broadcast something so controversial. I myself watched the post-mortem broadcast by the channel last year. I had also been to Van Hagen's exhibition of plastersised corpses in London.
But are Channel 4 going too far. Whatever your opinion on abortion, is C4 correct to broadcast such a terminal and grim programme?
On a personal note, I am against abortion being used as a form of contraception, but believe in extreme circumstances abortion could be the best option for both mother and child. I also think that such a programme could even help the "anti-abortion" front - although I think C4 are doing this more to educate, inform, shock, and feed the nations morbid curiosity.
Will you be watching.