The Devil wears maternity clothes

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How can one celebrate motherhood while defending abortion as “mercy”? That’s what outspoken actress Anne Hathaway does, which is why I’m not the least bit impressed by her strutting down red carpets, promoting The Odyssey in custom maternity fashions — including a Prada halter gown — like some perimenopausal guru who presents herself as the embodiment of motherhood.

Sorry, but even though Anne is currently being glorified on red carpets and lauded by late-night hosts, I find it difficult to take seriously a person who advocates for abortion on demand while being charitably associated with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Human Rights Campaign, let alone someone who publicly celebrates her decision to allow her unborn child to gestate for nine months unharmed.

Why do I feel this way? Because in Anne Hathaway’s sphere of truth, human rights begin only after a child miraculously makes it out of the womb.

Besides promoting herself as an icon of child advocacy, Hathaway is also an audacious supporter of what she calls “reproductive health care.” In 2022, regarding the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Hathaway preached on ABC’s The View that in her “own personal experience with abortion ... abortion can be another word for mercy.”

For those who redefine everything from life to gender to what is legal and illegal, I guess “mercy” has a new meaning. Hathaway expressed that she believes that her kind of mercy does not include the standard “compassion, leniency, or restraint (as in imposing punishment), especially ... to one subject to the power of another,” which is exactly what an unborn child in its mother’s womb is. Instead, for Anne Hathaway, violently disposing of the most innocent, dependent, and helpless among us embodies the essence of mercy.

Although the actress never explicitly admitted that she had an abortion, many listeners concluded that she was implying exactly that. According to her expressed opinion, “reproductive destiny matters a great deal,” especially for young women beginning their careers.

During that 2022 guest spot on The View, Hathaway lamented the overturning of Roe v. Wade, while imperiously shilling for scraping the contents of one’s womb into a red biohazard bag and hauling it to an incinerator. Sagacious Anne reminded the applauding audience on The View that “we’re in the fight. We’re in the fight every day. We’re in the fight every minute.”

That’s right, it’s a noble endeavor — in some circles — to fight for the right to kill the unborn.

Lest we forget, altruistic Anne also opposes child marriage but, based on her comments, somehow seems all for children having sex and aborting the result. Reminding the ladies, she said, “You mentioned The Devil Wears Prada turning sweet 16. Some 16-year-olds’ lives have been irrevocably changed because of the current overturning of Roe v. Wade.”

Hathaway connected the importance of abortion access for women beginning their careers to what she described as her “own personal experience with abortion.” Given the context of those remarks, many listeners concluded she was referring to an abortion she herself had experienced. Hathaway has never clarified what she meant.

She also linked abortion access to the opportunities available to young women starting their careers, saying, “If I were to play that role nowadays, I couldn’t take that freedom for granted — the freedom of choice.”

The scripture that comes immediately to mind here is Jesus asking, “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36).

Arrogantly, Hathaway continued, “By the way, this is not a moral conversation about abortion. This is a practical conversation about women’s rights and, by the way, human rights, because women’s rights are human rights.”

If the liberal psychotic break is so deep that one cannot recognize that the rights of an unborn human child are human rights, we’re farther along the road to damnation than I thought.

Then Anne shared deep thoughts with the rapt hosts, misconstruing flexibility as convenience, saying, “We know that no two pregnancies are alike, and it follows that no two lives are alike. When you allow for choice, you allow for flexibility, which is what we need in order to be human.”

No, Anne, to be human requires a heart, accepting responsibility for our actions, refusing to put our fame and fortune ahead of our children’s lives, and rejecting the devilish notion that killing an unborn child in the name of “flexibility” is somehow morally acceptable.

Now, here we are, four years later, and a very pregnant Anne is out sharing her story about conceiving in her forties. This is her third child, which she describes as an unexpected “blessing.” The baby Anne wants is a blessing, but an unwanted interference in her Hollywood aspirations would have been nothing more than a disposable inconvenience.

Anne told Access Hollywood that when deciding to have a baby, she and her husband, Adam Shulman, “decided to see where life took us, with a very, very healthy, realistic expectation, which was very low,” because of her age. On Late Night with Seth Meyers, she referred to this baby as a “buzzer-beater,” because she managed to conceive under the menopause line.

I guess my problem with all this duplicitous gushing is the unstated implication that, for Anne, a wanted child has more value than any child that this self-appointed spokesperson for motherhood said should be aborted because it would impose on a woman’s career.

Appearing recently on the Today Show to celebrate her role as Penelope, Odysseus’s wife, Anne became visibly emotional when the hosts presented her with an Odyssey-themed basket that included a newborn-sized Trojan outfit and a tiny helmet for the impending child Anne decided to bestow the benevolence of carrying to term.

Hathaway got all choked up and weepy; after all, this baby-themed shower of sorts is really all about Anne, her choices, her career, and the flexibility of having children who contribute to a form of self-fulfilling motherhood.

Anne Hathaway has elevated her opinion above the sanctity of life, touting abortion as a means for women to live full lives. She has framed the destruction of human life as a real-world issue and sanctioned feticide as a means to preserve the human right to bodily autonomy. In her opinion, disposing of one’s offspring is defensible because no two pregnancies or lives are alike — whatever that means. Pregnancy always involves a woman and an innocent human life.

In 2019, Hathaway publicly called out what she described as “the complicity of the white women” who supported Alabama’s abortion law, arguing that their actions would lead to the deaths of women, “a disproportionate number of whom will be poor and/or black.” Apparently, Anne can memorize lines just fine but doesn’t think deeply enough to recognize that blacks make up 13.5 percent of the U.S. population yet account for 39–40 percent of abortions. Stopping that level of genocide is not something a white racist, male or female, would do.

In the end, being subjected to actress Anne Hathaway pontificating on motherhood after saying that aborting a child for the sake of a career is “merciful” is like hearing Andrea Yates, who drowned five of her children, lecture America on gentle parenting.

When Anne Hathaway saunters down another red carpet in a flowing white maternity gown, don’t mistake the celebratory atmosphere for a universal affirmation of unborn life. The child who may one day wear that Odyssey-themed knitted helmet is more fortunate than the countless unborn children whose lives, according to Hathaway’s public advocacy, may be ended in the name of career, convenience, or what she has called “mercy.”

The contradiction is impossible to ignore. One unborn child is celebrated with designer gowns, glowing magazine covers, and congratulatory applause. Others, Hathaway argues, may be denied the chance to draw a first breath in the name of “choice,” “flexibility,” or “mercy.” If that is modern moral progress, perhaps the real devil isn’t wearing Prada anymore. Perhaps he’s wearing maternity clothes.

Jeannie hosts a blog at www.jeannieology.us.

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