Seth Udinski, FISM News
Actress Anne Hathaway defended abortion by calling it “another word for mercy” during an interview on “The View” earlier this week. Many found her word choice for the life-ending procedure to be both tone-deaf and purposefully inflammatory.
Appearing on the left-wing talk show, the 39-year-old actress voiced her personal support of pre-birth infanticide during a conversation about the sixteenth anniversary of the release of the hit movie ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ in which she starred alongside Meryl Streep.
Hathaway connected her character in the movie to the plight that she alleges most young women face in “post-Roe America,” claiming that a women’s career is more important than a babies life.
And you mentioned ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ turning sweet 16. Some 16-year-old’s life has been irrevocably changed because of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 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.
“My own personal experience with abortion and I don’t think we talk about this enough, abortion can be another word for mercy,” Hathaway then stated.
Anne Hathaway speaks out about the overturning of Roe v. Wade on #TheView and her personal experience with abortion: "When you allow for choice, you allow for flexibility, which is what we need in order to be human." https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/sE3Db3xwCl
— The View (@TheView) November 1, 2022
Hathaway’s words received passionate applause from the live studio audience, as well as gestures of support from the show’s co-hosts.
Author’s Biblical Analysis:
The passage of scripture that immediately comes to mind is found in Isaiah 5:20, where the Lord pronounces woes on the wicked. Here is the sober warning from the Author of sacred scripture:
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
We see in Hathaway’s words a microcosm of the left’s radical pro-abortion agenda, and we see even more clearly how much our Lord detests it.
Labeling abortion, which is the intentional murder of an innocent baby in the womb, as “merciful” is a prototypical example of calling something that is utterly reprehensible, “good.” There is nothing “merciful” about abortion, not for the baby whose life is violently snuffed out, or for the mother who must live with the horrid reality of it for the rest of her life.
Hathaway’s claim is a lie. Abortion is violent and inhumane. It targets the innocent and is an act of murder which God hates. Christians would do well to follow our Lord’s example and hate that which is evil as well.
What can Christians learn, therefore, from this report? I would propose two lessons as we consider this news.
The first: We must hate what is evil, and hold fast to what is good.
It seems simple enough, but our enemy is cunning and seeks our destruction by any means necessary. We are easily deceived, as our first parents were in the Garden of Eden, to think that what is evil is somehow virtuous, and vice versa. May it never be!
How do we know and discern what is good and what is evil? It is simple — We must be so saturated with the Word of God that we know in the deepest recesses of our hearts what God loves and what He hates. Read your Bible. Know what God commands you to do, and do it.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. – Romans 12:2
The second lesson gets to the heart of true mercy, and I wish for Ms. Hathaway’s sake that she discovers the reality of this life-altering truth. We must know and embrace the true definition of mercy, that God kindly withholds from us the judgment we deserve.
Mercy is the act by which someone lovingly withholds a just punishment from another who deserves to be punished. You can see with great clarity how God has done this for us in the gospel, where the Lord Jesus Christ propitiated the Father’s wrath on the cross. The Father poured His anger on His Son and spared us the punishment we deserve.
And of course, mercy and grace go hand in hand. God simultaneously shows us grace, whereby we receive blessings we did not deserve.
Christians should preach to ourselves the beautiful message of true mercy. We are all sinners who deserve nothing but death and hell, and yet if any man or woman simply repents and believes in the name of the Lord Jesus (Acts 16), God will not only spare him from the wrath he deserves (mercy), but He will impute to him the righteousness of His Son, the Lord Jesus (grace). What wonderful news for sinners who cannot save themselves!
As a final footnote, it would do us well as we consider this to remember that Ms. Hathaway is a sinner who needs the gospel, as much as you and I need the gospel. I do not know the details of her experience with abortion, but I do know that more than anything, she is deceived. She needs the mercy of God in the same way that you and I need it every hour. Instead of responding with rage and hatred towards her (as foolish as her claim was), we should pray that her eyes would be opened to the truth of the gospel.
Remember, believer, the beautiful mercy you have been shown from the heart of your loving Father.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)… – Ephesians 2:4-5