You won't see Termination 2 at the movies
Liberal Hollywood shies away from abortion
Gerard Baker
June 15, 2007

In grim times Americans turn to Hollywood for escapist cheer, and this summer the fantasy factory has not disappointed. The multiplexes are unusually full of feelgood movies to chase away the troubled superpower blues. Gone are the searing indictments of US policy in the Middle East and the moving stories about the misery of being gay in the Far West. Instead, Americans are flocking to see a succession of movies – many of which not only make you feel good, but actually are rather good.

Two of the more lively and lump-in-the throat-inducing are causing a bit of a stir in political circles too, and not among the usual ranks of Hollywood-bashers. The first is Knocked Up. In the film an aspiring TV presenter gets pregnant after a one-night stand with a highly unsuitable man. Then there’s Waitress, about a woman plotting to run away from an abusive husband who suddenly discovers she is expecting his baby. the rest


Albert Mohler: Why is Hollywood Afraid of Abortion?
Posted: Friday, June 15, 2007

Gerard Baker asks an interesting question - If Hollywood is so liberal, why is it afraid of abortion?

Writing in The Times [London], Baker points to a pair of recent Hollywood releases, both of which deal with the issue of an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy. Both movies depict women who decide not to have an abortion.

Baker then makes a most interesting observation:

This has some feminists outraged. They point out that in Hollywood, for decades – in everything from Sex and the City to Parenthood – women confronted with an unplanned pregnancy almost always choose to keep the baby. It is odd that Hollywood does this, given that it is a famously liberal bastion of the "pro-choice" position. If abortion, a tool for women to make their lives better, is such an important right, as Hollywood liberals passionately believe, then why not celebrate it with some positive, abortion-affirming role models? the rest