It was a MAD magazine parody of All in the Family that had Edith say “abortion,” not the actual TV show.
Now that I can see. I vaguely remember the episode in question. I wonder if anyone actually said the word or if it was alluded to.
I doubt if the actual word was used. However, in the Norman Lear spinoff Maude, the title character did actually have an abortion.
Maude discovers that she is pregnant at the age of 47, and struggles to decide whether to have the baby or have an abortion. Her daughter, Carol, encourages an end to the pregnancy; her husband, Walter, insists he will support any choice Maude makes, promising he will have a vasectomy[ clarification needed ] which he is actually reluctant to do.
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It was a big deal.
According to a 1992 Chicago Tribune article
The first showing of “Maude’s Dilemma” was carried by all but two of CBS’ nearly 200 affiliates and attracted nearly 7,000 letters of protest. By the time the shows were repeated, in August 1973, a campaign against them had been organized by the United States Catholic Conference. The reruns were broadcast, but nearly 40 affiliates chose not to air them, not one corporate sponsor bought commercial time, and CBS received more than 17,000 letters of protest.
— The Chicago Tribune[2]
I don’t know if the word abortion was actually spoken.
I remember that - the bulletin from my Catholic church had a nicely low-key reference to it (something along the lines of “television has been objectionable lately” and an address where to write). I assume that the priest wasn’t actually that bothered but the bishop and/or local folks wanted it mentioned.
Of course, it turned that that particular priest was a kiddy diddler, so not as cool as I thought at the time.
Stephen Richer, the Republican Maricopa County Recorder, said that he and his fellow state GOP officials are tired of being falsely accused of plotting to install President Joe Biden in the White House by assorted methods of trickery and subterfuge.
“It was one thing with the audit when they were looking at UV lights and looking for bamboo fibers in the paper,” he said. “But when they just accused us too many times of breaking the law, they defamed our good employees too many times, they’ve defamed the hard-working people here. We’re all humans, and we have our limits!”
Berman noted that some Trump fans have even claimed that state elections officials shredded their ballots, fed them to chickens, and then had the chickens incinerated to cover up the evidence…
I never thought the leopards would eat my face …
People are saying that after incinerating the chickens, they sent the remains to Mars to feed the children kept in cages there. Is that true? I’m just asking.
I suppose the next step would be incinerating the children.
C’mon, that’s just ridiculous.
I heard that after they fed the ballots to the chickens, they barbecued the chickens and served the BBQ to aliens. But that’s obviously ridiculous because aliens are vegans or vegetarians (refer to other thread for definitions). Except the ones that are cannibals, of course. But none of them would eat chickens.
I have a confession to make. I shredded the Trump ballots. Since I don’t have any chickens, I fed them to my cats. If the Cyber Ninjas send me a few waterproof boxes and return mailing labels, I’ll provide them with copious evidence to examine.
What about alien chickens?
Where do you think chicken fingers come from?
Same place we get buffalo wings.
You must not be from around these parts? Of course Idaho wants them.
I wonder when the Greater Idaho nuts are going to join up with the State of Liberty nuts?
State of Liberty is Matt Shea’s wet dream: State of Liberty - Wikipedia
:sigh:
I miss Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Only the ones from Vega.
Do the Vegans also eat Pintos and Gremlins?
Pintos give them heartburn.
They eat Cadillacs, Lincolns, too
Mercurys and Subarus
Do not stand behind them when they fart!!
Consider yourself warned.