R. Kelly Verdict Spotlights Leisure World-Abortion Hyperlink

If you wish to perceive the leisure business and abortion, look no additional than R. Kelly. The R&B singer turned trafficker and sexual abuser of underage women is again within the information after being convicted on all counts of operating a baby racketeering ring. One sufferer revealed that for the small sum of $500, Kelly obtained paperwork that falsified the age of now-deceased singer Aaliyah so he might marry her for the only real function of procuring an abortion for her.

Aaliyah was 15. On the time, solely a father or mother or a partner might log out on an abortion.  

One other sufferer — one of many many minor ladies in search of stardom that he fairly actually imprisoned, raped, and trafficked — lately testified that she too was compelled by the singer to have an undesirable abortion.  

Aaliyah’s story jogged my memory of comic Chelsea Handler’s abortion story, which was presupposed to be a kind of “empowering” #ShoutYourAbortion issues however as a substitute got here out as weirdly patriarchal. Handler advised Rosie O’Donnell that she was enthusiastic about turning into a mother and wished to maintain the newborn. Her dad and mom pressured her to abort as a substitute. “I used to be attempting to argue with them they usually have been like, ‘You don’t perceive. You’re throwing your total life away. You’re not having a baby proper now.’” So her dad drove her to the clinic. Handler wrote an essay about her two teenage abortions for the woman-empowering journal generally known as Playboy, whose founder, Hugh Hefner, overtly bragged about his function in funding and advancing the abortion agenda.  

In her essay, she writes, “And I didn’t have only one abortion; I had two in the identical 12 months, impregnated by the identical man.” She doesn’t elaborate as as to whether her dad drove her the second time. Such benevolent husbands and fathers.    

However for those who actually do wish to look farther, you may flip to our outdated buddy Harvey Weinstein, additionally now within the slammer for raping ladies. Whereas he was at all times a card-carrying supporter of abortion, he received particularly vocal about it when ladies left and proper started accusing him of rape and sexual assault. He sat subsequent to presidential hopeful and abortion foyer honoree Hillary Clinton (herself accused of bullying her husband’s assault victims) on the Deliberate Parenthood 100^th anniversary gala and pledged a six-figure donation. He known as “preventing for Deliberate Parenthood and defending ladies’s rights” “the nice combat.” He even endowed a chair named for abortion rights queen Gloria Steinem and did a movie on faculty campus sexual assault.  

However he was, because it turned out, simply “a wolf in Deliberate Parenthood clothes,” to cite the author Mary Eberstadt.  

Hollywood has been arguably probably the most vocal mouthpiece for the abortion foyer, particularly in recent times as it’s dogged by troubling exposés and a shrinking pool of purchasers. Hollywood has tried further arduous to present abortion a contemporary and shiny look. Assume Michelle Williams in a cute orange one-shoulder costume on the Golden Globes attempting to persuade us that ladies nonetheless want abortion to succeed.  

In actuality, practically 50 years of Roe v. Wade in Hollywood really seems to be like a sweaty Harvey Weinstein in an orange jumpsuit. The patriarchs of Hollywood have championed abortion as a result of it has been an important instrument for them to make use of and abuse ladies, for cash and for intercourse, whereas fairly actually throwing away the weak and harmless penalties. Contemplate the phrases of the late Hugh Hefner. When a Self-importance Truthful reporter challenged him by saying, “However feminists nonetheless oppose you for treating ladies as objects,” his response was strikingly candid. “They are objects!” he replied.  

With abortion earlier than the Supreme Courtroom this fall, two issues are sure: We’re sure to listen to from the Hollywood abortion bros and their starlet victims as to why abortion is required. However we may be simply as positive that their credibility in the case of empowering ladies is all of zero. They’re, in spite of everything, actors.