Mercy for whom?

This madness of pretending that ripping apart another human being is compassion or mercy is just a bridge too far for me.

Who, in Hathaway’s mind, is the recipient of this mercy? Is it the mother who doesn’t have to carry a child for nine months or is it the child who is granted a merciful exiit from a cruel world?

My assumption is that she would say both, if only because she really hasn’t thought the issue through at all.

Daily Signal: Actress Anne Hathaway called abortion “mercy” on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday.

Hathaway joined the show’s all-female panel and shared her perspective on abortion, saying, “My own personal experience with abortion, and I don’t think we talk about this enough—abortion can be another word for ‘mercy.’”

Hathaway added: “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?”

The other thing she says is that she’s not speaking morally about abortion, just practically. What?

No seriously, what does that even mean? I think she might actually have an inkling that what she’s saying is indefensible and therefore says this is not about morality. What other moral considerations are out of bounds?

When Hollywood was scolding us all to get boosted and re-boosted, they certainly made that into a moral issue, didn’t they? “Do you wanna’ kill Granny?”

How about the voter ID law? That became a moral issue too didn’t it? I seem to remember the All Star game being moved out of Atlanta because of that “practical” issue.

So morality talk is only out of bounds when they declare it to be a morality free zone, which would seem to make sense. When the left outlaws morality, it is in fact a moral issue to them that your morality is out of bounds.

Matt Walsh had a few things to say in this aptly titled video: