Because abortion is hilarious.
Via Newsbusters:
That statement should offend both sides: not only those who oppose abortion but also those who abort (after all, if it wasn’t difficult, why the “not in her shoes” mantra?). But not so for the media – abortion is the very definition of “funny,” in The Washington Post’s latest piece.
The Washington Post recently published American Civil Liberties Union Deputy Legal Director Louise Messing’s article where she gushed, “Finally, a movie that makes abortion funny.” Messing was referring to the abortion romantic “comedy,” “Obvious Child,” which opened June 6 and hits theaters nationwide June 27. As a media favorite, the film, said Cosmo, highlighted how “abortion is a catalyst for a potential romantic relationship” and offered, according to Salon, “two people a shot at true love.”
To explain her stance, Messing hyped how, “The new romantic comedy ‘Obvious Child’ has managed to do something pretty extraordinary” or, in other words, “it’s made abortion sympathetic, and funny.” The movie, according to Messing, showed “the experience of millions of women across the country – that we sometimes get pregnant when we didn’t want to and decide to have an abortion because it’s the right decision for our lives.”
But her article wasn’t all happiness. Messing lamented how “Our culture still stigmatizes abortions and the women who have them” – to the extent that President Obama avoids the word “abortion” when addressing Roe v. Wade.