Yesterday — because of a call from a St. Louis radio show to go on to talk about it — I watched some of that Bump web series. It’s a faux reality show where viewers tell three pregnant women if they should abort or not.

I was stuck by two things: 1) How fringe it appears — I don’t think this would fly on a major television network or cable channel, even HBO. And 2) how dehumanizing the whole endeavor seems, even it’s supposedly inspired by Barack Obama’s Notre Dame speech.

There’s one especially clueless-seeming gal who goes on about Starbursts. It makes it all — the human lives at stake in real-life pregnancies — seem so unreal. Unfortunately, the reality is all too life and death.

What scares me about this project is that some desperate, alone young women looking for help of any kind on the Internet are going to happen upon this Bump . . . and I don’t see it helping them any, just contributing to confusion and pain. Kinda like that Notre Dame incident did.