Pro-Life Actress Patricia Heaton Challenges Pro-Abortion Marchers

LifeNews.com ^ | April 22, 2004 | Steven Ertelt

[nickcarraway]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Unlike many of her Hollywood friends, two-time Emmy winner Patricia Heaton, star of the hit comedy series "Everybody Loves Raymond," won't be attending Sunday's pro-abortion march in Washington.

"Many of the celebrities on the list are my friends," Heaton explained, "but when it comes to championing abortion, we go our separate ways."

"I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that is mostly social, economic and psychological," said Heaton. "In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice."

Looking to bolster the number of march participants, abortion advocates have recruited a litany of pro-abortion celebrities to pump their cause.

The list ranges from musicians such as Christina Aguilera, Lisa Loeb, and Ashley Judd to actors such as Jennifer Aniston, Helen Hunt, and Lynda Carter and other notables like Ellen DeGeneres, Emme, Cindy Crawford, and Jane Fonda.

According to recent polls, the pro-abortion women celebrities don't represent the majority of women.

A September 2003 poll conducted by the Polling Company found 54 percent of women selected one of three different pro-life views opposing all or almost all abortions. Only 39 percent backed abortion.

The results are similar to those found in a poll conducted by a pro-abortion group.

In June, the Center for the Advancement of Women released the results of a poll showing that 51 percent of women took a pro-life position. Their poll also found that keeping abortion legal was the next to last most important priority for women as compared with other public policy issues.

Heaton is not surprised by such polling, saying that women often turn to abortion because of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Many women who have had abortions report that they felt abandoned, or even coerced into abortion.

"Women who experience unplanned pregnancy also deserve unplanned joy," said Heaton, who believes abortion is evidence that society has failed to meet the real needs of women.

Marchers say, "We won't go back." Heaton responds, "If it is up to march organizers, we won't move forward either. It's time to raise the bar, not protect the status quo. Every woman deserves better than abortion, and every child deserves a chance at life."

Heaton is the honorary chairwoman of Feminists for Life, a pro-woman, pro-life group that works to find solutions to abortion that affirm the dignity of women.

"Being a mother is one of the most rewarding experiences of my life," Heaton concludes. "As a member of Feminists for Life, I want to share the joy of motherhood with other women, to enable women to make life-affirming choices for themselves and their children, and to elevate our society's perception of mothers."

The coalition of Hollywood celebrities backing the pro-abortion March includes:

Margie Adam

Christina Aguilera

Jennifer Aniston

Curtis Armstrong

Elaine Aronson

Bea Arthur

Ed Asner

Kevin Bacon

Alec Baldwin

William Baldwin

Meredith Baxter

Shari Belafonte

Maria Bello

Polly Bergen

Thora Birch

Amy Brenneman

Betty Buckley

Jessica Capshaw

Lynda Carter

Stockard Channing

Jill Clayburgh

Kate Clinton

Glenn Close

Cindy Crawford

Sheryl Crow

Alan Cumming

Tyne Daly

Blythe Danner

Kristin Davis

Ossie Davis

Dana Delany

Laura Dern

Ellen DeGeneres

Ani DiFranco

Illeana Douglas

Denise Dowse

Fran Drescher

Kirsten Dunst

David Eigenberg

Hector Elizondo

Emme

Eve Ensler

Giancarlo Esposito

Melissa Etheridge

Morgan Fairchild

Edie Falco

Frances Fisher

Calista Flockhart

Jane Fonda

Bonnie Franklin

Janeane Garofalo

Ana Gasteyer

Indigo Girls

Annabeth Gish

Whoopi Goldberg

Lauren Graham

Maggie Gyllenhaal

LisaGay Hamilton

Ben Harper

Ed Harris

Salma Hayek

Marg Helgenberger

Isabella Hofmann

Helen Hunt

Amy Jo Johnson

Kathryn Joosten

Ashley Judd

Catherine Keener

Carole King

Swoosie Kurt

Christine Lahti

Sanaa Lathan

Sharon Lawrence

Lisa Loeb

Amy Madigan

Natalie Maines

Wendie Malick

Joshua Malina

Camryn Manheim

Frances McDormand

Ewan McGregor

Marilyn McIntyre

Sarah McLachlan

Moby

Demi Moore

Julianne Moore

Alanis Morissette

Kathy Najimy

Alyson Palmer

Joe Pantoliano

Mary-Louise Parker

Adrian Pasdar

Pink

Martha Plimpton

Doris Roberts

Paul Rudd

Susan Sarandon

Campbell Scott

Kyra Sedgwick

Martin Sheen

Cybill Shepherd

SONiA

Fisher Stevens

Gloria Steinem

Julia Stiles

Corky and Mike Stoller

Sharon Stone

Amber Tamblyn

Mary Testa

Charlize Theron

Uma Thurman

Heather Tom

Stanley Tucci

Kathleen Turner

Ted Turner

Sarah Weddington

Audrey Wells

Bradley Whitford

Alfre Woodard

Thom Yorke

Amy Ziff

Elizabeth Ziff

Related web sites:

Feminists for Life - http://www.feministsforlife.org

[Mike Bates]

Lynda Carter was one of the original FOB's.

And her husband, Robert Altman, was a partner of Clark Clifford, a long-time Demo. Both boys were involved in the BCCI scandal.

[BOBWADE]

[Prov3456]

I hope this isn't crass, but I wonder how many abortions each of the women on this list has had, and how many abortions the men on this list have demanded of their "loved ones."

I suspect the total number of abortions on this list would be high. I believe their support/justification of abortion stems from denial of the negative effects of their own abortions on themselves.

Just ask Jennifer O'Neill, now spokesperson for the "Silent No More Campaign."

[lainde]

bttt

[Lawgvr1955]

And besides, they really need her now since her former client "Jane Row"/ Norman McCorvey became a pro-lifer.

Most people don't know that because of the slow speed of the litigation, Jane Row gave birth to her child. Now there is one person (the now 31 year old child) who will never complain of the glacial like speed of American jurisprudence.

[willyboyishere]

The worst part of the pro-abortion marchers is their obviousness, tediousness, and their hysterical conviction that there is an organized politically STRONG movement out there determined to overthrow Roe V. Wade.The pro-aborts see themselves as being heroically just as determined to keep that from happening. They like to point to people like the ones who bomb abortion clinics and kill abortion doctors as the reason they fight for "the right to choose". The fact is there is NO national will to overthrow Roe v. Wade, and there never will be. (If it doesn't come from a Republican administration where will it come from?) Hence, the overreaction of the pro-abort zealots tends to make abortion itself, and not the "choice" to have one, into a positive value. Patty Heaton and her Feminist for Life colleagues are simply trying to put another perspective on this runaway example of social devolution called abortion.
Hooray for them, but I wish this ironic perspective I've put on it could find a way to enter the "dialogue", if anyone is fatuous enough to call it that.The pro-aborts only make sense if there is an actual political battle going on out there on this issue, and there isn't. That, however doesn't keep it from being a pointless hot- button issue in campaigns, even if now it has to be waged on the secondary lines of fetal tissue,etc.

[montag813]

The inclusion of Demi Moore and Ciny Crawford smacks of poor editing. It's possible of course, but I think both women are fairly conservative. I could be wrong, though.

I would imagine quite a few are in error. Martin Sheen has already indicated he does not support the March for Death. He is, surprisingly, very pro-life.

[montag813]

Jennifer Aniston
Fran Drescher

What is ironic is that both of these women have had trouble, or have been unable to conceive. Drescher also had a reproductive cancer. One wonders if that may have been linked to her past "choice(s)".

[montag813]

Jennifer Aniston
Fran Drescher

What is ironic is that both of these women have had trouble, or have been unable to conceive. Drescher also had a reproductive cancer. One wonders if that may have been linked to her past "choice(s)".

[goldstategop]

No body and I mean NO BODY cares for Hollywood's politics. People don't identify with actors cause of their left-wing politics or lack of them...

[RightWingAtheist]

http://www.plagal.org/

[goldstategop]

Yes, there ARE pro-life liberals. More than you think. I disagree with Sheen's politics and it takes guts to dissent from the party line about abortion being a good thing. Just ask the late Robert Casey, Pennslyvania's pro-life Democratic Governor, who was silenced at the Democratic Convention in '92 cause the pro-choice extremists had a litmus test for who is and who is not a liberal. Few people remember this, but Jesse Jackson, Dick Gephardt and Al Gore were pro-life before they entered a career in national politics.

[RightWingAtheist]

All those names don't matter, because WE GOT JACK!!!

[F16Fighter]

"Yet, those same pro-infanticide celebs would walk five miles, barefoot, on broken glass to save some murderer, cop-killer, or beached whale."

Say it again, bro. And they regard the most innocent as mere garbage.

We can only look at the names on this "celebrity" list and hold them in contempt for their cowardice and hypocracy.

At least Stephan Baldwin -- who is a Christian and NOT on this list -- can't take undue heat for his idiotic brothers...Ashley Judd?? Just shameful.

[cgk]

ping.

[goldensky]

Sharon Stone--pro-choice for everyone else, pro-life for herself. She battled inferitility, then adopted a son with her ex.

[ride the whirlwind]

...I want to share the joy of motherhood with other women, to enable women to make life-affirming choices for themselves and their children, and to elevate our society's perception of mothers."

God bless Patricia Heaton and others pro-life like her.

[cubreporter]

Good Lord. Well, guess they deserved each other. Now they both support abortion. Nice crowd.

[cubreporter]

Well, I am against abortion. It is the taking of an unborn life. However, tht decision is up to the person who wants the abortion. On the other hand, I shouldn't have to pay for it when it goes against MY religion.

[cubreporter]

Disgusting aren't they? Can't think of any other word for them. So self-centered. then we have the goodness and bravery of someone like Pat Tillman who gave up all that money to fight for his country. There is NO comparison. God bless him and his family and all the other soldiers who have died in service to their country and their families too. Everyone bleeds the same and the losses are felt far and wide.