July 15, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — NARAL Pro-Choice America just released what is possibly the most crass, tone-deaf video promoting abortion I have ever seen.
The video, “Comedians in Cars Getting Abortions,” is a play on the web show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” It features actress Alice Wetterlund and comedian Nato Green, with the latter driving the former around as she tries to procure an abortion.
The video is meant to show how difficult pro-life laws make it to obtain an abortion, but all it accomplishes is show that abortion kills a growing human being. Oh, and it makes the pro-abortion movement seem like a bunch of callous ghouls who didn’t foresee the backlash a video making light of what they frequently call women’s “difficult, personal” decisions would cause.
Several parts of the video really struck me. First, one of the reasons Wetterlund gives for wanting an abortion is “we don’t need more of this in the world,” after she and Green apparently see a child slap his father. Wetterlund’s comment accidentally acknowledges that abortion is related to children, not just a woman’s body. Abortion causes a someone, who is tiny and growing, a distinct someone who we don’t know yet but who nevertheless exists, to die. If pregnancy progresses without interference from an abortionist’s cold forceps, it allows an embryonic human to become a fetal human. It then allows that fetal human to leave the safety of his or her mother’s body as a baby human.
“Comedians in Cars Getting Abortions” also reveals the humanity of tiny humans in the womb when Wetterlund and Green accidentally walk into a crisis pregnancy center and are presented with a model showing how pre-born babies of a certain age look. They don’t look like blobs of cells. They look like tiny babies. Yet NARAL doesn’t care about hiding this! They put this fetal model right there in the open. (What they didn’t show was what an abortionist poisoning, shredding, dismembering, and disemboweling it.)
When the couple finally find a doctor who commits abortions (the couple fist-bump to celebrate), she says she’s legally required to show them what the developing baby looks like. She then shows them two images of a “baby at 15 weeks,” one of a growing fetus and one of what appears to be an apple (side note: this is what a developing pre-born baby actually looks like). Wetterlund then holds up a blank sheet of paper.
“This is what I want,” she says.
There you have it.
Abortion: one moment your offspring is growing inside you. And then $550 and moments later, your offspring is in Planned Parenthood’s garbage disposal or being sold to the highest bidder.
Another thing that struck me about the video was how angry Wetterlund seemed. She displays no joy, love, or self-sacrifice. Only anger, haughtiness and scorn.
Compare that with the hundreds of thousands of smiling faces of young people at the March for Life, the exuberant crowd at the annual Students for Life of America conference, the radiant pro-life women who empower their peers to choose life rather than death.
Also, it doesn’t seem like NARAL has ever set foot inside a crisis pregnancy center.
“Who needs a doctor when you have the Book of Jeremiah?” a woman at the pregnancy center asks.
“Who needs abortion facilities when you have real health care from places like Stanton Medical Clinic and the Guiding Star Project?” I’d like to ask NARAL.
I don’t know where NARAL is getting their information, but the crisis pregnancy centers I’ve seen overwhelmingly do have medical personnel on staff and do a lot more than offer mothers fetal models and Bibles. In fact, many are not overtly religious at all.
How can abortion be such a light, laughing matter when its proponents regularly concede that it’s a difficult choice?
Finally, regardless of whether you identify yourself as pro-life, if you’ve had an abortion and you were offended by NARAL’s video, I’m sorry. Truly, I am sorry for whatever pain or hurt or confusion it has caused you. The video was insensitive, crude, and tasteless. We all deserve better than it.