Posted on 07/22/2022 9:12:34 AM PDT by Morgana
Actress Jennifer Grey, known best for her role in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, recently opened up to the Los Angeles Times about her abortion as a teenager and feeling “emotional” about the end of Roe v. Wade.
Teenage pregnancy and abortion
“When I try to imagine my own daughter at 16, playing house, essentially living with a grown-ass man, doing tons of blow, popping Quaaludes, and going to Studio [54] — not to mention being lied to, cheated on, then gifted with various and sundry STDs and unwanted pregnancies, it makes me feel physically ill,” she said. “No teenager should be swimming in waters that dark … .” Yet, these were Grey’s teen years. Despite this, as traumatic as it sounds, Grey claims to have felt empowered by her sexual freedom at that age and told the Times that she used birth control carefully.
But drugs, living with an adult male, and dealing with STDs and unwanted pregnancies are likely not what our nation’s first feminists imagined when they fought for women’s rights (which did not include abortion). It’s hard to conflate that dangerous and reckless lifestyle with empowerment. She admits she wouldn’t have wanted her own daughter, now age 20, to have lived her teenage years like that.
It was during those years, prior to her role in Dirty Dancing, that Grey had an abortion and she implied that it actually had a negative impact on her. “It’s such a grave decision,” she said. “And it stays with you.” Yet, she attempts to justify it.
“I wouldn’t have my life. I wouldn’t have had the career I had, I wouldn’t have had anything [if not for the abortion],” she said. “And it wasn’t for lack of taking it seriously. I’d always wanted a child. I just didn’t want a child as a teenager. I didn’t want a child where I was [at] in my life.”
Mothers and career success
The truth is that Grey doesn’t know what her life would have been like if she had welcomed her child. She assumes she wouldn’t have had her career or “anything” at all. But her life could have been made better by her child, something most mothers say about their own lives after having a baby.
Grey’s implication with this statement is that mothers are incapable of career success. Other women in the industry have proven this misogynistic theory wrong. Director and actress Emerald Fennell was seven months pregnant when she directed “The Crown,” and said being pregnant during that time “really helped” and “gave me this weird power for myself.”
Monica Potter, Shirley Temple, Naomi Judd, Solange Knowles, Niki Taylor, Maya Angelou, Aretha Franklin, and Loretta Lynn were all teenage mothers who became successful in their careers. Women have even won Olympic medals while pregnant. Countless women attribute their success to their children, who inspired them to work harder.
The idea of “unwanted” people
Even more troubling is that Grey was clear she had the abortion because she didn’t “want” a child and therefore, destroyed that child’s life. It is eugenic to label a human being as “unwanted” for the purpose of robbing them of their humanity, value, dignity, and very life in order to live the life you please.
The idea of “unwanted” people isn’t new — it’s been used to justify genocide for centuries. People have been dehumanized and called unfit and undesirable throughout history and those labels have allowed horrors to occur: the Holocaust and slavery, for instance. No human being deserves that treatment.
Abortion is still dangerous
The most controversial part of Dirty Dancing is arguably the illegal abortion obtained by the character Penny. Grey’s character, ironically named Baby, takes money from her father to help procure the abortion for Penny, but the procedure is botched.
“We saw someone who was hemorrhaging,” Grey said about the scene. “We saw what happens to people without means — the haves and the have nots. I love that part of the storyline because it was really a feminist movie in a rom-com. It was a perfect use of history.”
But forcing legalized abortion on every state in the January 1973 Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade didn’t end botched abortions. In fact, in 1972 (the year before Roe), the CDC recorded 39 deaths from illegal abortion and 24 deaths from legal abortion. By 1973, the first year abortion was legal throughout the nation, the CDC reported that more women actually died from legal abortion than from illegal abortion (25 v. 19).
While it is unknown how many women are injured by legal abortion each year in the United States (only half of all states are required to report abortion complications), there are countless 911 calls from abortion facilities that detail the horrors of legalized abortion. And it is still underprivileged women who are being targeted for these so-called “safe” abortions.
The end of Roe
Grey called the June 24, 2022, Supreme Court decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe “so fundamentally wrong.” She said about the decision, “I feel so emotional. Even though I’ve seen it coming, even though we’ve been hearing what’s coming, it does’t feel real.”
Over nearly 50 years, 63 million human beings have been violently killed by abortion and disposed of as medical waste. For five decades, women have been pressured and coerced into abortions and told that abortion was their only choice. Roe v. Wade may be history, but the mass genocide of innocent human beings is still raging on in America. And that is what is fundamentally wrong.
didn’t that movie plot include needing money for an abortion? They are so fixated on eliminating babies.
“Grey had an abortion and she implied that it actually had a negative impact on her. “It’s such a grave decision,”
I know a woman who is a friend of mine who had an abortion at age 20. The father, a bully and redneck was insistent she abort the child and she was estranged from her family at the time and I didn’t know her yet, she was alone aside from the boyfriend. He took her to the clinic and she complied with his demands. Some 30+ years later she still regrets that decision. We are friends and she told me in her early 20’s broken and sobbing and said I have prayed and begged God to forgive me and I told her if you have and have repented He says He will forgive your sins and cast them as far as the east is from the west and if he forgives you, you need to forgive yourself.
She has been a fierce advocate for the pro-life position, reconciled with her family and they have a great relationship and she has been a staunch member of her church, but as far as I know I am the only person she has ever discussed this with.
Sounds like her parents were complete pieces of s##t
And she sounds like a slut, in my opinion
Yet today it's not her fault for sleeping with Weinstein for a job, it's GOD’s because HE created her with a womb, which led to her promiscuity getting her pregnant since she was obviously not on the pill with was available long before she was ever born.
As for her pregnancy, she probably got pregnant when she slept with someone in Hollywood with the hopes she would get a part in some "B" movie, before she slept with someone to bet a part in a movie where she played a lose teenage girl who slept with a two time loser who danced at a resort.
Hell, my conjecture is as good as hers, but looking at all the angry women in Hollywood, I would say mine conjecture is probably closer to the truth than her’s.
Is her story supposed to convince me that abortions are a good thing?
More validation of my choice to never experience fatherhood. As much a blessing would be to have a good kid...the risks are too great for me to take on. My own parents made some epic blunders with us kids...and they were good people for the most part. They did the best that they knew how to do. Nope. Im not ever bringing a human being into this nutty world.
I understood her saying “...essentially living with a grown-ass man...”, was describing her father.
So she got sucked into the self destructive hollyweird lifestyle and would have been ruined if not for Roe V Wade????
[[“I wouldn’t have my life. ]]
Pssst Jennifer- Your Child HAS NOT had a life! Also- what if your mother had said the same thing about you?
Let’s not forget that Dirty Dancing also had an abortion subplot involving that actress who was also in the Saturday Night Fever sequel.
I had seen Red Dawn, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off before I watched Dirty Dancing which was a chick flick.
I wonder if she feels any remorse for the mother and daughter killed by the car she was riding in while she was riding with Mathew Broderick.
1987 car crash
On August 5, 1987, while driving a rented BMW 316 in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Broderick crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a Volvo. The driver, Anna Gallagher, 28, and her mother, Margaret Doherty, 63, were both killed instantly.[32] He was vacationing with Jennifer Grey, whom he had begun dating in semi-secrecy during the filming of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; the crash publicly revealed their relationship. He suffered a fractured leg and ribs, a concussion, and a collapsed lung. Grey’s injuries included severe whiplash, which later required surgery to avoid paralysis.[33]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Broderick
Sounds like a slut. Why would anyone look towards a slut for solutions? There is a severe lack of discrimination and judgment in this country. That is to say many people are indiscriminate about the source of solution to life’s problems. They tend to blame everyone but themselves. You see this repeatedly from leftists. An analog to this can be seen in the blame that Biden places for high gas prices. It’s greedy old companies. No, it’s Putin. No, it’s gas station owner. No, it’s you and me not buying EVs. It’s has zero to do with Biden’s policies. It is absolutely asinine to look towards the creator of the problem for solutions. As with, Miss Grey, she created her own problems and is not the person to even consider to listen in moral matters. Quite simply she needs to keep your legs and mouth shut.
She has led an extremely destructive life, and will have a lot to answer for. Hopefully, she will accept Jesus before she dies so that she can be forgiven.
It doesn’t sound like rape unless it was statutory.
These people, like her and Cher and so many other self absorbed asses, are unthinking imbeciles.
And now it starts to make more sense. Raised by a fag. Faggotry is hated by God because it is so destructive. It causes severe damage not just to the fags, but to society and other around them. Trickle down effect. Tolerate the faggotry and then all sorts of indecency and immorality are “ok.”
Man, that’s Hollywood for aspiring actresses. Always has been.
The key sentence:
“I wouldn’t have my life. I wouldn’t have had the career I had, I wouldn’t have had anything [if not for the abortion],” she said.
Sounds like a human sacrifice in trade for fame and fortune.
“...she used birth control carefully.”
She missed one...abstention.
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