HOLLYWOOD, February 18, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The latest season of House of Cards has the pro-abortion movement excited – so excited it has inadvertently allowed a little truth to slip out: Abortion supporters believe lying about rape is praiseworthy as long as it protects abortion-on-demand.
Pro-abortion extremist Amanda Marcotte could scarcely contain her rapture while reviewing the latest season of the Netflix-based series for Slate.
The vice president's wife, Claire Underwood, (not to be confused with that guy on L.A. Law) admits during an interview with CNN's Ashleigh Banfield that she has had an abortion.
The stilted language and cardboard caricature of the pro-life movement proves the script was written by Hollywood elites. Instead of asking whether she has had an abortion, Banfield asks, “Did you terminate the pregnancy?”
Underwood (played by Robin Wright) responds with a homilette on the horrors of the pro-life movement. “If I said yes my husband's political career would be in jeopardy, my faith would be questioned, likely my life would be threatened, but I won't feel ashamed. Yes, I was pregnant, and yes, I had an abortion,” she says in what is supposed to be a moment of feminist triumph but comes across as further proof that she is an emotional black hole.
In fact, Underwood has had three abortions – two during her teen years and one on the campaign trail, approved by her husband (played by Kevin Spacey). During a commercial break, an adviser tells her that the American people might look askance at her having had three convenience abortions – so she lies on the air instead.
This, Marcotte says, “saves the potentially disastrous interview by attributing the abortion to a rape she endured in college by a man who has now become a general. This skillfully shifts the discussion to the problem of rapists running free in the military.”
Lying about abortion humanizes and endears Underwood to the feminist movement in general and Marcotte in particular. She writes:
Claire is a character who is frequently portrayed as a scheming, immoral liar, but for once, her truth-fudging comes across as entirely sympathetic. The implication is that the American public will forgive aborting a rape-caused pregnancy but would never forgive someone who rebels against the expectation that she must have children with her husband. To protect herself from the intrusive condemnation of people she's never met, she pretty much has to lie.
And her lie was so skillful! It relieved her of having to face the consequences of her actions and blamed abortion on evil patriarchy – in this case military brass, which is evil, patriotic patriarchy, a two-fer.
The reaction is a change from last season, when abortionist Merle Hoffman raged in The Huffington Post against an episode that mentioned Underwood's past abortions in the context of her current infertility. Presumably Underwood's virtual “Abortion On Demand and Without Apology” was more to her liking.
But we should all be grateful that this episode of House of Cards reaffirms two well-known truths: journalists cannot act, and abortion supporters lie like a rug. We should applaud Marcotte's rare candor that, yes, the pro-abortion movement loses no opportunity to lie about rape if it makes abortion more palatable to the rubes in flyover country.
This should come as no surprise. Abortion became legal nationwide because of a lie about rape: Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade, has admitted: “I lied. [Lawyers] Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffey needed an extreme case to make their client look pitiable. Rape seemed to be the ticket.”
In fact, lying, especially about rape, is what abortion supporters do best. They perpetually lie that Republicans support rape, even when more honest liberals call them out for twisting the truth – and weak-willed “leaders” immediately back off in the House and in the Senate.
Abortionists lie that the children conceived by rape are somehow less worthy than other children to live – when they are remarkable human beings like Rebecca Kiessling, Ryan Bomberger, Monica Kelsey, Pam Stenzel, and innumerable others.
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Most inexcusably, they lie to victims of rape, telling them that abortion will erase the pain of their sexual trauma, when those who have experienced it say it only adds another, deeper scar. A study in 2000 found that 78 percent of rape victims who chose abortion regretted their decision – and now they are speaking up, warning other women about the abortionists' lies.
“It wasn’t the answer I was promised,” said Ashley Sigrest, a young woman who regrets aborting a child conceived by rape as a teenager. “I didn’t get the results they told me I would.”
“I have met women like myself who were raped and chose abortion, who live in such regret,” she said.
Let Marcotte's admission serve as a reminder: Supporters of abortion should be assumed to be lying until otherwise proven by the facts. Doing so would have saved the world a lot of heartache.
Cross-posted at TheRightsWriter.com.