Posted on 03/22/2019 4:45:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Liberals are that strange species that supports abortion on demand. And yet in their strongholds, like the District of Columbia, they hire inspectors to fine restaurants hundreds of dollars for offering their customers plastic straws. It's not surprising that television shows don't base entire plots on the "Straw Cops." But they do insert plots that promote the feminist "empowerment" of abortion.
The latest example is the aptly titled show "Shrill," with six episodes streaming on Hulu -- now owned 60 percent by Disney, 30 percent by Comcast and 10 percent by Time Warner. "Shrill" is mostly a show about "fat acceptance," about learning to love yourself even if the world looks at you and thinks you're unattractive or unhealthy.
Bullying or shaming fat people is bad. But it's not as bad as aborting an unborn child. Annie, the main character in "Shrill" -- played by "Saturday Night Live" cast member Aidy Bryant -- gets an abortion in the first 20 minutes of the first episode. It's portrayed as a wonderful event yet as casual as getting a tooth removed.
Naturally, the script writers worked intimately with Planned Parenthood to "get it right." Planned Parenthood tweeted: "We're thrilled that the new show #Shrill ... knows how important it is to see safe, legal abortion onscreen." It was "proud to have worked" with Hulu "to highlight a positive abortion experience."
After the abortion, a friend asks Annie how she feels now that her womb is empty. "I feel ... really, really good. ... I got myself into this huge f---ing mess, but I made a decision, only for me, for myself, and I got myself out of it. ... I feel very f---ing powerful right now. And I just feel like I need to go out." Her friend replies, "Do it, b----. I love you."
Let loose. Get pregnant. Kill the baby. Party on.
The left loved this plot. Ariana Romero oozed on the feminist site Refinery 29 that the scene is "unapologetically honest" and not "shrouded in the agony and insidious mystery." The scene is a "statement-making introduction" underlining "an immediate need to jumpstart its leading lady's journey towards fearless self discovery."
That's quite a euphemism -- "fearless self discovery."
Bryant is a co-writer on the show. "For a lot of women, abortion isn't this fraught moment in their life," she explained to Romero. "They have clarity. And finally things click into place of like, 'I've had this other path. I've said no. And I'm choosing to do this with my life.' I think that is a really empowering experience."
Two years ago, the Netflix series "GLOW" about women wrestlers featured a very similar abortion plot, downplaying that it was a big deal. When character Ruth goes for the procedure, a male friend comes along, pretending that he is the woman's husband. He jokes: "I could've pulled out, but I got lazy. Lucky for us, we hate children. Right, honey?"
And there was Ariana Romero again with her pro-abortion pompoms, cheerleading that the woman wasn't talked out of it by "anti-choice" people. She wrote: "No sexist school of thought changes her mind. It's such a great example of how abortions are medical procedures women need, not nefarious murders of unborn babies."
It is precisely the nefarious murder of unborn babies, and the Hollywood left can spin like a furious top, saying that it's a priceless and empowering "medical procedure." These are the last people on Earth who should lecture us about how plastic straws might harm sea creatures.
Just like the movie “Dirty Dancing”
I came to the realization several decades ago that there are those who believe, to the very marrow of their bones, that every women should at least once in their life, one way or another, get pregnant and have an abortion, just to prove that she can.
They love death.
I does seem to be a death cult. It certainly has it’s acolytes.
Women who get abortions thumb their noses at God. It’s an extremely selfish act of sin most often the result of sin. I honestly fear the wrath they will face if they don’t repent, but the true believers actually celebrate the death of the unborn. It’s positively ghoulish, and pretty much the same, morally, as sacrificing an infant to Moloch.
The baby could not be reach for comment.
They are putting themselves on a path to extinction. Those who believe in life will gradually continue to outnumber the killers until none are left.
TV shows and movies are not made to entertain. They are made to promote an agenda. The story line is designed to drag you in, and to make you relax your critical thinking (not much of that anymore). Then they insert the propaganda.
The Left dehumanize everyone, even themselves. They just don’t realize it...
Nothing thrills a Democrat like the mutilation and murder of a baby.
“but I made a decision, only for me, for myself, “
that’s the problem. you made a decision that wasn’t only for you, for yourself. you made a dicision for/effecting another human being and decided to kill it to try to make yourself happy.
I wonder if the Abortion Barbies will ever produce a statistic on ‘how many women find they are sterile after having an abortion?’. Yes, it happens. And no, I don’t know the statistic. An abortion doesn’t just remove the nascent human being. It also requires the scraping of the uterus to make sure all of the pregnancy material has been removed. It has been likened to the removal of all the avocado meat from the rind of a very ripe avocado. Nicks in the lining of the uterus can cause ‘spontaneous abortions’ (miscarriages) from there on out. I wonder how many women would opt for abortion, if they knew they might never be able to carry a child after.
“Let loose. Get pregnant. Kill the baby. Party on.”
That one line says it all.
The most egregious example being what I refer to as “Grace and the Happy Homos”.
Anyone who gets an abortion (except for cases where the life of the mother is at risk) SHOULD be sterilized.
Of course the best thing would be to ban abortions entirely, but until we do that at least we can keep the murderers from going serial at it.
So here, this woman admits that she is perfectly aware that abortion kills a living, sentient baby. Yet she continues to be a shill for the abortion industry. And, for the record, few medically necessary abortions take place. Most abortions are, in fact, the result of a callous decision to do nothing to prevent pregnancy since it is so easy to have it "taken care of" once it occurs.
Ever notice that no one ever shouts their root canal or pontificates about how having a tonsillectomy was their body, their choice? Isn't it significant that the language used to promote abortion is so different than the language used to describe actual medically necessary procedures?
I recall reading once that having three abortions results in 50% of abortion clients being unable to carry a live infant to term. Even having a single abortion can have that effect, though clearly, the more abortions a woman has, the less likely she can carry to term. A certain number of abortion clients become unable to conceive at all. Having a history of abortion is equivalent to smoking during pregnancy in terms of fetal loss and premature births. But while women can stop smoking, they cannot reverse the damage of past abortions.
The abortion industry, of course, does not warn women of the consequences, especially of abortion used as a primary form of birth control (60% of abortion clients are repeat customers). As long as clients can continue to get pregnant and carry the child long enough to have the abortion before they miscarry, the abortion industry is unconcerned about effects on future child-bearing.
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