Written by Amanda Marcotte, also known as the most miserable feminist in America.
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.