Anne Hathaway: ‘Abortion Can Be Another Word for Mercy’
Actress Anne Hathaway said Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that in her “own personal experience” with abortion that it could be “another word for mercy.”
Co-host Joy Behar said, “While we are on the topic of that, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ turned 16 this summer. Time flies. You wrote this on Instagram, quote, ‘I’m struck by the fact that the young female characters in this movie built their careers in a country that honored their right to have freedom over their reproductive rights. See you in the fight.’ Why was it important for you to write something like that?”
Hathaway said, “Because we’re in the fight. We’re in the fight every day. We’re in the fight every minute. And you mentioned ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ turning sweet 16. Some 16-year-old’s life has been irrevocably changed because of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. And I played a young woman who was starting out her career. And when you are a young woman starting out your career, your reproductive destiny matters a great deal. It had just happened, and I just think about it all the time. What its implications are and what it means to live in a country that puts us in this position.”
She continued, “By the way, this is not a moral conversation about abortion. This is a practical conversation about women’s rights and, by the way, human rights because women’s rights are human rights and the freedom we all need to be able to choose and build our lives and have access to excellent health care.”
She added, “May I just one other thing, without going into too many details, my own personal experience with abortion, abortion can be another word for mercy. We don’t know. We don’t know. We know that no two pregnancies are alike, and it follows that no two lives are alike. It follows that no two conceptions are alike. So how can we have a law? How can we have a point of view on this that says we must treat everything the same? Where I come at it from is when you allow for choice, you allow for flexibility which is what we need in order to be human.”
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Both Hebrew bible and quran address ensoulment. It happens at about 4 months in the womb. There is some debate about it and some schools believe it happens at about 3 weeks post birth.
Roman Catholic church created conception = soul myth to police reproduction. Protestantism ran with it because it served the same means to an end.. infanticide tombs in Biblical times were massive because even Christ did not rebuke the beliefs on ensoulment. Notice Christ broke so many Hebrew laws and the covenant..pretty much rewrote the whole book and He never addressed infanticide.
The debate of of original sin and predestination is completely turned upside down and screwed if ANYONE could prove conception means instant ensoulment. It would have massive theological and philosophical implications. Literally, every new testament letter, the writings of Aristotle and Plato, they would all be absolutely invalidated.
Matthew 18:10 “See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.”
“How we treat children matters to God”
Jesus had used a small child, (who knows, it may even have been a female), to teach his disciples a basic lesson about the Kingdom of God. The relatively insignificant social status of a child challenged pride and commended humility. The child then became a vehicle for designating his followers whether young or old. To harm one of “these little ones” was to court the judgement of God.
The Law of the Kingdom of God is love; love towards God and love towards others. To offend against that Law in any form is to incur God’s just judgement. To practice harm to any, especially children, – for in the Bible they are recognised as belonging to that group of vulnerable people who deserve particular care and protection – is to offend grievously against the One who has a special regard for the vulnerable. In fact, it is, as Jesus said, better to be plunged heavily weighted into the sea, than to face the justice of the God who is Love, for being cruel to a child.
https://whatdidjesussay.com/41-lead-a-child-astray-youd-be-better-off-drowned-jesus/
Amen