Posted on 09/10/2004 9:58:41 AM PDT by WildReeling
Hollywood, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Actress Ellen Barkin, who stars in the film "Palindromes," startled those attending the Venice Film Festival this week by saying she would force her daughter to have an abortion.
"I am the mother of a 12 year old. If she was pregnant, I would take her kicking and screaming to have an abortion," Barkin said at a press conference Tuesday to publicize her new movie.
In the film, Barkin, who starred in "The Big Easy" and won an Emmy in 1997 for her role in "Before Women Had Wings," plays the mother of a teenager girl who is forced by her parents to have an abortion.
The heroine, 12 year-old Aviva, wants to be a mother. After a neighbor impregnates her, Aviva's mother (Barkin) insists on the abortion.
Aviva runs away from home and stays with a loving Christian woman, Mama Sunshine, who takes care of the adolescent and protects her unborn child.
Pro-life groups are already up in arms about the movie Palindromes, with its images of dead unborn babies in medical pans and its distorted portrait of those who oppose abortion as violent extremists.
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Would that be legal?
I'm glad she's not my grandmother!
Ping
This must be the "choice" part :-)
Ellen Barkin is one of those whack-jobs who believes that it's intolerant not to support the killing of children in their mothers'wombs.
Yeah, right.
Ellen needs lots and lots of prayers, methinks.
So much for CHOICE!
Well, she should be able to afford the medical bills when her daughter contracts breast cancer, then.
The director of the film mentioned in the article is Todd Solondz.
Solondz has previously made a film entitled Happiness which contains a "sensitive" portrayal of a child molester as a nice, but flawed, guy.
He also made another film entitled Storytelling that contains a graphic sex scene in which the "lovers" scream nasty racial slurs at one another, and which makes light of the exploitation of the disabled.
Solondz is a "shock" filmmaker who is always looking for the next grotesque outrage.
"If she was pregnant..."
correct tense is conditional
"If she were pregnant.."
She makes her living with words and can't form a sentence. We should respect her opinion why?
I have seen this at the abortuary where I pray Saturday mornings.
Moms, and sometimes husbands/boyfriends/fathers dragging sobbing girls/women into the building - forcing them to kill their own children.
Sad to say, but if our nation does not stop this satanic practice, we will NOT win the War on Terror.
We could not, because it is a spiritual battle and we embolden the enemy (satan) when we sacrifice our children on the altars of moloch known as abortion centers.
Headline; ELLEN BARKIN WOULD KILL HER GRANDCHILDREN
OMG, what a horrible woman!
Kicking and screaming...
Good catch.
A shame Barkin's grandma didn't do the same when her daughter became pregnant.
"I am the mother of a 12 year old. If she was pregnant, I would take her kicking and screaming to have an abortion"
Did it ever occur to this twit that the better statement would be
I am the mother of a 12 year old. I will do everything in my power, move Heaven and Earth, to instill the proper values so that she has the moral compass and intellectual aptitude to keep from getting pregnant.
Miss Barkin, what if someone had taken your mother kicking and screaming for an abortion?
SHe makes her living speaking other people's words.
If she had to write them herself, she'd be on a breadline somewhere.
I agree with the FReeper who said she needs our prayers.
Just curious, why not force her, kicking and screaming to adopt the baby out? Although, I don't think, medically speaking, a 12 year old girl should have a baby and maybe or hopefully that was her point, but I doubt it. An abortion in this sense would be therapeutic, as in a D n C.
nick
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