{"id":279148,"date":"2022-11-04T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T21:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=279148"},"modified":"2022-11-05T11:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T16:42:02","slug":"elizabeth-banks-abortion-safety-promotes-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/elizabeth-banks-abortion-safety-promotes-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Elizabeth Banks touts abortion’s ‘safety’ as she promotes her new film"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actress Elizabeth Banks is making the media rounds as she promotes her new pro-abortion film “Call Jane<\/a>” about pro-abortion activists in the late 1960s. As she discusses the film, Banks leans on very old and misleading pro-abortion talking points to promote abortion as a common good.<\/p>\n

Abortion is “society’s insurance policy” for immature sex<\/strong><\/p>\n

Banks told<\/a> Michel Martin, host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” that “abortion is sort of our society’s insurance policy that, for all the sex that we all have that is not intended to make babies \u2014 and I don’t know about you, but most of the sex I’ve had in my life was not intended to make babies. And the idea that we are going to force birth and force pregnancy on people, it’s unconscionable to me and feels so un-American.”<\/p>\n

The idea that sex should be free from commitment is one Planned Parenthood has promoted for years in order to build up both the birth control and abortion aspects of its business \u2014 and its STD testing and treatment as well. It might be common to have sex without the intention of creating babies, but that lack of intent does not mean babies cannot be created anyway \u2014 and killing them because of their inconvenience to their parents (and because of their size, location, level of development, and degree of dependency) is not a legitimate solution.<\/p>\n

Yes, people have sex without the intent<\/em> of creating a child, yet they still have sex with the knowledge<\/em> that a child may very well be created regardless of their wishes. The vast majority of pregnancies occur during a consensual sexual act. One person’s sexual desires do not trump another person’s right to life. Killing another human being is not an “insurance policy” for the unwanted results of someone’s own actions.<\/p>\n

In addition, no pro-life law or politician has the power to force pregnancy<\/em>\u00a0upon a woman. But once a woman becomes pregnant and a new human being exists, the government has the duty to protect that new human life<\/em> from harm and violent death. It is very much an American value to protect the vulnerable and the innocent \u2014 and no one is more vulnerable and innocent than a preborn human being who cannot protect himself or herself.<\/p>\n

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“Abortion is safer than dental work”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Banks also appeared<\/a> on CBS Mornings where she said, “One of the things I love about the movie is that there’s a lot of mythology about abortion healthcare, that it’s really scary and you might die. I mean there’s literally activists that yell that at women who are going into clinics. And the fact of the matter is that an abortion is safer than most dental experiences. It’s safer than a colonoscopy.”<\/p>\n

But there’s no mythology about the dangers<\/a> of abortion for women. Women do suffer serious injuries<\/a> from abortion and have died from legal abortion<\/a>, but because the media fails to report these horrific stories, no one knows about them \u2014 women like<\/a> Cree Erwin-Sheppard, Keisha Atkins, Holly Patterson, Laura Hope Smith, Marla Cardamone, Christin Gilbert, and Jennifer Morbelli. And there are many more names here:<\/p>\n