Despite Ricky Gervais’s warning not to talk about politics, Michelle Williams used her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes on Sunday night to make a pro-abortion pitch.
“When you put this in someone’s hands, you’re acknowledging the choices that they make as an actor … but you’re also acknowledging the choices they made as a person, the education they pursued, the training they sought, the hours they put in,” she said, holding her award. She continued:
Williams argued that the Golden Globe was somehow a justification of not just her talent as an actor but also her life choices.
“I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose,” she continued. “I know my choices might look different than yours. But thank God or whomever you pray to that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith, and you are free to live by yours.”
She ended her speech with a call for women to vote in their “own self-interest” since “it’s what men have been doing for years.”
The camera panned over to Busy Philipps, another pro-abortion advocate, crying in the audience.
Williams may feel that access to abortion improved her life by helping her focus on her career and choose when to have a baby — she’s pregnant now — but her parroting of the Hollywood line that women need abortions is not just patently false. It’s dangerous.
This summer, actress Ashley Bratcher, the star of Unplanned, told me the exact opposite of Williams’s message.
“Society makes us believe that you can’t have a baby and have a successful career or go to school,” she said. “That’s exactly what we don’t need to hear. That’s exactly the opposite of female empowerment.”
Bratcher, who had her own unplanned pregnancy, now has both a family and a career, and she encourages other mothers that they don’t have to choose between success and children.
A woman’s “own self-interest” should never take precedence over the “self-interest” of a baby in the womb. If only Williams, who now has a child on the way, could realize that her perspective is not empowering to women. It’s just spreading one of Hollywood’s biggest lies.
