Actress Anne Hathaway appeared on ABC’s The View this week to promote her films, including The Devil Wears Prada, a movie that is now 16 years old. The discussion quickly turned diabolical as Hathaway mused about the importance of killing unborn children to young career women in fashion and other industries. Illustrating George Orwell’s observation that political rhetoric is designed to make “murder sound respectable,” Hathaway couched her defense of killing unborn children in the lofty language of “choice” and “reproductive destiny.”
It is impossible to watch a self-indulgent celebrity like Hathaway pontificating about the killing of unborn children without feeling a little sick to your stomach. Here is a multimillionaire gushing over her career and posh life who then lectures us on the basis of her “personal experience” that “abortion can be another word for mercy.” Mercy for whom? Certainly not the child, who is deprived of the life that Hathaway so complacently enjoys. Abortion is another word for cruelty — a human rights violation that only a culture as depraved and self-centered as ours could pass off as an act of compassion.
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