De Abortione Nil Nisi Bonum
4th October 2022
Blonde is a biopic about Marilyn Monroe. (One critic insists that it shouldn’t be called a “biopic”, because it is based on a novel, but the number of historically accurate Hollywood biopics can be counted on the fingers of a man whose hands have been amputated, so I think the term is good enough here.) In the course of the movie, the protagonist has two abortions, each coerced. Before the second, she has a vision of her unborn child, who begs, “You won’t hurt me this time, will you?”
Planned Parenthood is outraged by the scene, declaring, “As film and TV shapes many people’s understanding of sexual and reproductive health, it’s critical these depictions accurately portray women’s real decisions and experiences.” In the eyes of the organization’s “national director of arts and entertainment engagement”, there is evidently nothing “real” about a woman’s anguish at being forced to end her child’s life.
This is but one small aperçu into the contemporary pro-abortion mentality: Abortion is no longer presented as a difficult personal choice to which women turn only as a last resort but as something so benign that nothing ill can be said concerning it.