Some feminists are so enamoured by abortion they actually are condemning Hollywood when it portrays a single mother who actually wants to keep her baby.  Referring to the actresses who portray pregnant, single mothers in the movies Waitress and Knocked Up, Ann Hornaday writes in the July 15 issue of the Washington Post,

Clearly, both women have their reasons for choosing to continue their pregnancies, and both “Knocked Up” and “Waitress” end on optimistic notes, with their formerly ambivalent moms basking in the glow of maternal devotion (also known as hormones). But in neither movie is the choice portrayed as just that, an explicit choice. Rather, Russell’s and Heigl’s characters approach impending motherhood with the sort of grim resignation that suggests they have no other options. It’s a setup that has some viewers, especially women who came of age in a post- Roe v. Wade America, wondering just what world these movies are living in.

Such an observation only serves to confirm that what liberals mean by pro-choice is pro-abortion. If a single woman finds herself facing an unexpected or especially an unwanted pregnancy and she then chooses to carry the child to term, the feminist establishment is quick to skewer her for making the wrong choice.

As for “the world these movies are living in,” it’s a world where abortion is not the only option and where single women facing a difficult choice actually do choose to keep their babies. It’s not as if Hollywood has never portrayed abortion in a positive light (The Cider House Rules comes to mind, among others). Is Ms. Hornaday arguing that in a pro-choice world, Hollywood should only be highlighting the choice informed by a liberal, feminist ideaology? Is there not a tint of morbidity in a respected writer chastising Hollywood for portraying pregnancy positively and expressing disappointment that the pregnancy didn’t end in death for the baby? The only thing that comes closer to a morbid celebration of the abortion culture is the new t-shirts being touted by Planned Parenthood and proudly worn by many declaring, “I Had an Abortion.” I thought the reason why we never knew Norma McCorvey’s name in 1973 is because abortion was about the “right to privacy?” Duplicity on the Left can never be questioned.

The nation’s First Feminist, Hillary Rodham Clinton, claims that her pro-choice position doesn’t imply that she is necessarily pro-abortion:

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.

Liberals have never trusted individuals to make the right decision about anything. The era of Big Government (and government run schools, health care, et al) would indeed be over if liberals in the government actually trusted individuals to make the right choice. The Washington Post can’t tolerate the still, small voice of a pro-life message in a film produced by Hollywood where the thunder of Leftist ideaology more often than not drowns any other voice.