Sending a Message to Pro-Abortion Celebrities :
April 26, 2004
Sunday has come and gone for the pro-abortion march in Washington, D.C. Approximately 800,000 people protested strongly, condemning George W. Bush and religious conservatives for hurting ''reproductive freedoms'' of women everywhere. If that was not bad enough, abortion advocates had Hollywood celebrities to back the event, having popular voices persuading and reaffirming that it was okay to terminate a child's life as long as the fetus was still inside the womb.
Many of the celebrities that supported the march didn't surprise me at all. Christina Aguilera, Alec Baldwin, Ellen DeGeneres, Melissa Etheridge, Janeane Garofalo, and Natalie Maines from the country band "The Dixie Chicks" were among the predictable names that have notorious reputations for supporting anything that is immoral and indecent in this country.
However, some of the celebrities that were at the event flabbergasted me: Ashley Judd, Lisa Loeb, Salma Hayek, and Amy Jo Johnson, who starred in the once popular kid's television series ''Mighty Morphing Power Rangers.'' It was sad and disappointing for me to see such talented people support an unholy act of human ignorance. After all, these are the entertainers we give our hard-earned money to so that they may entertain us
After reading about the ''Women's Rights March'' article, I contemplated how anyone could justify the death of a fetus based on the fact that it is not fully formed. Humans are always in a state of growth. Babies do not have a fully hardened skull and do not have perfect vision. They cannot walk or talk properly or function as an independent person until a ripe age, so how does the validation of abortion stand? Is human life outweighed by the inconvenience of carrying the child for nine months?
Patricia Heaton, star of the hit comedy series "Everybody Loves Raymond," said it best when she stated, "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. In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice."
.... It is both poignant and hypocritical that these same groups of celebrities protest against sending troops into Iraq and convict Bush as a warmonger, yet will defend the never-ending massacre of innocent babies inside the womb.
I know that this column will generate negative responses from pro-abortionists and I can already predict what kind of responses I will receive. Some of them will write that no fetus has an alienable right to be inside the womb, but I will respond that no doctor or any other person has a human right to kill an innocent life. Some will write that life does not begin at conception, but at the time of delivery. I will counter and write that God knitted all of us in the womb from the very beginning of conception, according to the Bible. Some will write that I shouldn't use the Bible as a means to prove my claims because it is a religious source, but I reply that these same religious sources state not to murder, steal, or commit adultery. Should we then eliminate those laws because they originate from religious sources? If their answer is yes, then may God save their souls.
Mullenax, Richard, 2004, "Sending a message to pro-abortion celebrities", [online] accessed: 17 November 2008, http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/mullenax/040426 |
Thanks to Feminists for Life of America for the list of the coalition of Hollywood celebrities that backed the pro-abortion March.
The list 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, and Elizabeth Ziff.
Mullenax, Richard, 2004, "Sending a message to pro-abortion celebrities", [online] accessed: 17 November 2008, http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/mullenax/040426
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