"Abortion On The Air"

A good column the other day by Brent Bozell at MRC:

The Hollywood take on constitutional rights usually begins not with the words "We the people," but with "If it feels good, do it." Its centralized location is the dropping zipper. In the vast majority of occasions that Hollywood’s dramatists take up the celebrated right to "choose" abortion, the air is thick with propaganda.

Abortion has never been a major topic on the small screen, but when it does bubble up to the surface, the libertine left’s urge to sermonize is as hard to resist as the urges that caused the unwanted pregnancies in the first place. The 1989 TV movie "Roe v. Wade" celebrated the lawyers and plaintiffs who wanted abortion to have the same moral weight as an appendectomy. Hollywood never bothered with a bio-pic on Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of the case, who later confessed her sins and converted to Catholicism. Why ruin a good plot with the historical truth?...

The column was sparked by Monday's episode of WB's "Everwood", which The Mighty Barrister has been covering at his newly refurbished digs.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 05/10/03 01:20:07 PM
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