Try as they might, liberal celebrities still cannot come up with an original thought on abortion.
On The View, actress Anne Hathaway launched her own defense of abortion, replete will all the buzzwords and euphemisms that you find from any other celebrity on the topic. “When you are a young woman starting out your career,” Hathaway claimed, “your reproductive destiny matters a great deal.” You see, pregnancy just arrives out of the blue. No one can control it. It is your “reproductive destiny.”
Anne Hathaway: “Abortion can be another word for mercy.” pic.twitter.com/s2QKMBIw98
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) November 2, 2022
This is, of course, not true. Pregnancy is not a viral illness or a random natural phenomenon. The key phrase here is “sexual responsibility,” not “reproductive destiny.”
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Hathaway continued, bemoaning living in a country “that puts us in this position” while the ladies of The View all nodded in agreement. Again, no one is putting you “in this position” other than yourself. The only time that Hathaway’s claim would be true would be for victims of rape, who make up a very small number of women who get abortions and who are exempted from most abortion bans. This is yet another attempt to pretend that pregnancy is random and not a consequence of having sex.
That is when Hathaway gets to the kicker. “By the way, this is not a moral conversation about abortion,” Hathaway said. “This is a practical conversation about women’s rights … and the freedom we all need to be able to choose and build our lives.” She then added, in what she claims is not a “moral conversation,” that “abortion can be another word for mercy” and that we know that no two pregnancies are alike, so “how can we have a point of view that says we must treat everything the same?”
Hathaway’s entire diatribe is moral preening, just as it is every time a liberal celebrity (or Democratic politician) talks about abortion. Invoking the idea of mercy makes it clear that this is a moral argument, not a practical one. But ending a human life against that person’s consent is never a “mercy.” That is precisely what abortion does. Hathaway is doing nothing but offering a retread of an argument we have heard before: An unborn child would be better off dead than poor.
And finally, it is quite easy to have a “point of view” that says we must treat most abortion cases the same. After all, the fundamental question of abortion is whether or not a human life matters. Those of us who are pro-life would say that it does, and you do not get to end a human life simply because that is more convenient for you. Hathaway is free to get back to us with what circumstances she thinks would make it acceptable.
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She won’t, and neither will the hosts of The View because celebrities don’t think about abortion beyond the empty platitudes they have memorized but never thought about. At the end of the day, this is just another celebrity rant about abortion. You can toss it in the pile with the hundreds of others it is indistinguishable from over the years.
