Does it have to be that way? TV-format "Born in the Wild" shows live births in the wild
You've already seen a lot on TV. Squabbling housewives who exchange house, farm and family for a week. Single women extending her artificial fingernails for a red rose. Or unemployed D-celebrities eating kangaroo fowl in the Australian jungle. Yes, a crazy world, the German television landscape. But now you have to admit that such formats are watched by a broad audience.
Thus, the program managers of the American station "Lifetime" probably came up with the hair-raising idea of shooting a reality show about women giving birth in the wilderness. "Born in the Wild" should be called the tasteless spectacle. "That will certainly get a damn good rate," the program makers must have thought. Finally, a YouTube video served as a source of inspiration, which has been clicked nearly 23 million times. It shows a woman giving birth to her fourth child in the Australian rainforest. Without doctors. Without midwives. On a mattress in a riverbed. The whole thing was filmed by her partner.
In this case, everything went off lightly, the woman gave birth to a healthy daughter. But could not it have been different? "Our presence makes births safer than having the women give birth at home alone," Eli Lehrer, vice president of the station, told Entertainment Weekly.
Safe? With a camera crew and a paramedic in tow? Allegedly, the pregnant women in the show are women who have already given birth to children in hospitals. However, they would not have had a good experience and were now looking for alternatives.
It is a very personal decision how and where to give birth. But in the end, there is still the question: are there no moral limits left on television? Does this extremely intimate experience have to be accompanied by a television camera? May the boundless voyeurism of the television audience be satisfied at all costs? Does a person have to be dragged in front of a camera in the first minutes of his life? No! We owe this right to privacy to our descendants.
"Human dignity is inviolable." Let's hope that at least the television stations in this country are aware of this article of the Basic Law and reject such a dignified concept - and refrain from serving the voyeurism of spectators and the greed of immoral producers limitless.
