But there is a difference between a lady who goes to church, and a Church Lady.
Posted on 09/18/2016 11:54:35 AM PDT by Morgana
Huffington Post film reviewer Laura Goldman generally liked the new romantic comedy “Bridget Jone’s Baby,” but she had one problem: It doesn’t promote abortion.
Goldman’s movie review read more like an advocacy piece for abortion. She argued that the comedy, the third in the Bridget Jones series, should have mentioned abortion because the pregnant 40-something main character would have considered it in real life.
She wrote:
“Bridget Jones’s Baby,” deftly written, generates a belly laugh a minute. The one flaw of the movie is that it overdoses on cuteness instead of taking the braver path of discussing birth control and abortion on screen. Yes, the plot of the movie required that Bridget get pregnant, yet she could have discussed or planned more responsible contraception than 10-year-old vegan condoms found in the bottom of her bag. Or in a novel twist, the horny males could have tried and failed to take responsibility for preventing pregnancy. It certainly would have been in character for the uptight Mr. Darcy.
There’s one crucial word missing from the Bridget Jones script-abortion. It is absolutely inconceivable that Bridget, a single 43-year-old pregnant woman, never considers terminating her pregnancy even if she eventually rejected it. The screenwriters of the film should have had her discuss it with her doctor or could have opted for the less in your face route of having Bridget write about it in her diary, which is now an iPad. It is 2016 not 1950. It is okay for a 43-year-old single woman to fear she can’t handle a baby on her own and consider terminating her pregnancy.
Goldman’s piece fit in with abortion activists’ on-going campaign to demand societal acceptance of abortion. The entertainment industry is just one way that they are trying to push their messaging, and they get upset when it doesn’t toe the line. For example, abortion activists were quick to criticize popular comedy actress and writer Mindy Kaling, a Planned Parenthood supporter, in 2014 when she said the topic of abortion would be “demeaning” for her half-hour sitcom. Under pressure from the pro-abortion lobby, she later apologized.
Abortion activists want the entertainment industry to push their pro-abortion messaging even more than it already does. In the past few years, popular TV shows and movies, including several billed as comedies, have touted the pro-abortion agenda.
Last November, the ABC show “Scandal” shocked many viewers when it glorified a main character’s abortion. The show had one of the main characters smile as she aborted her unborn baby, while “Silent Night” played in the background. Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups praised the show for being “groundbreaking,” “brave” and “awesome.” And the Huffington Post lauded the show for portraying an abortion as “no big deal.”
Abortion is a big deal for most women and always for their unborn babies. Unborn babies die horrible, painful deaths in abortion procedures every day, and millions of women suffer from years of pain and regret afterward. But these heart-wrenching stories are the ones that never get told in the media.
I agree with you. Most single women getting pregnant for the first time at 43 are doing it deliberately, or as you said, realize that the window is closing and so they go with it. At 43, they are hopefully financially able to handle single motherhood.
I am just about to that age myself and don’t have the husband or kids...sometimes life just doesn’t work out the way you hoped and prayed it would. But plenty of women in my same circumstances feel crappy enough missing out on the husband that there is no way in heck are they going to miss out on the child, too. No way would they abort. This author is living in fembot la-la land.
I wonder if the author of this article also gets annoyed that the death penalty isn’t discussed as a viable option in more crime movies.
That is something a lot of young women don’t understand. They see celebrities having babies at 44 or 45, but what they aren’t told is that those celebrities adopted or used somebody else’s eggs. I read recently that Janet Jackson is pregnant for the first time. The article made it sound like she just happened to get pregnant, but she must have used expensive medical treatments and somebody else’s eggs. Cases like that make young girls feel they have all the time in the world to have a baby, when actually fertility begins to decline at age 28. It’s not politically correct, but it’s best if women have their babies when they’re young.
Damn straight Jackson used donated eggs. You are right that young women don’t appreciate how short their fertility is, and they don’t know about the crisis of infertility.
dp0622, don’t bother with this one. She and I had a few go-arounds a few years back when she could find nothing wrong with even obviously corrupt or careless cops. They were always blameless. Not surprised she’s a FR Church Lady, too.
I will say that she does have a redeeming feature: She’s pro-Trump.
I don’t get it either with all the contraceptives available wtf and men we have a responsibility here too All i can say is most women that are for abortion are usually the ones you dont want to boink anyways
Hey! How come that wasn't directed at me!
I'm the worst influence on FR and America, dammit!
You can just back off that anti-Christian stuff here, bub.
Show a little respect for the beliefs of other Freepers.
By the way, if you want to attack me at least leave out the innocent bystanders.
But there is a difference between a lady who goes to church, and a Church Lady.
It was a hit overseas. I don't think it had huge expectations over here; a rom-com sequel 15 years after the original featuring an 40-something actress most people had all but forgotten about.
That it made $8 million is surprising.
Bug off.
That chick is hot. Who is she?
ScALert Johansen
I’d hit it.
LOL, thanks for posting this. And it does prove that we’ve move beyond satire because I was just wondering if any lefty idiots would complain that it should be Bridget Jones’s Abortion. Like that would be a funny movie.
Forsooth, I hope they all burn in hell.
“I haven’t seen any of the Bridget Jones movies”
Only saw the first one, it was pretty good.
Why would you be surprised that liberal would be mad about a lack of abortion, they LIVE for abortion.
It’s sad, but they do.
It is sad.
Abortion is ugly, depressing, brutal murder. Any light hearted, happy movie certainly doesn’t want any mention of it.
You get a pass ;-) Some people are special...
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