During the latest episode of ABC’s “The View,” Anne Hathaway was a celebrity guest on the show. She claimed that “abortion can be another word for mercy.”
“My own personal experience with abortion and I don’t think we talk about this enough, abortion can be another word for mercy,” she said.
Elaborating she said, “We don’t know. We don’t know.” 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?”
These comments were prompted by Hathaway when co-host Joy Behar asked her about her abortion-themed post marking the 16th anniversary of her film, “The Devil Wears Prada.”
Behar read the post-Hathaway shared to Instagram right after the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, saying she would be part of the “fight” for abortion rights.
The actress connected her role in the film to the loss of abortion rights, saying, “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.”
Hathaway went further, “And I just – it had just happened and I just – I think about it all the time. I think we all think about it all the time, and what the implications are and what it means to live in a country that puts us in this position.”
She also said that if she played the same role today, she “couldn’t take that for granted. I couldn’t take that freedom for granted, the freedom of choice.”
The actress added, “And 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.”
Anne Hathaway claims that abortion is "another word for mercy."
Abortion is NOT mercy.
Abortion is violence.
Abortion is injustice.
Abortion is the end of an innocent life. https://t.co/j8n2ptPTMm— Students for Life of America (@StudentsforLife) November 1, 2022
