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 you say this if Ellen was choosing to abort her daughter years ago? Or would you say, "Shouldn't her daughter be able to determine what happens to her own body?"
Oops. i forgot to insert the sarcasm tag with that comment.
If one was against abortion, I can't imagine what else anyone would pray for with a 12 yo pregnant daughter.
Even as someone who supports legal first-trimester abortion, this is beyond disgusting. Ugh.
We don't care what has been actresses think. If someone can get Catherine Zeta Jones to say something like this I'll look, er.. I mean listen.
So much for "choice"
That is out of line. The worst collection of genetics still has a soul precious to God... (and protected by our Constitution - contrary to the asinine rulings of our current courts)
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