{"id":18898,"date":"2020-09-04T14:55:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T21:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18898"},"modified":"2020-09-04T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T21:16:32","slug":"new-teen-comedy-unpregnant-seems-to-suggest-that-abortion-is-nothing-but-a-barrel-of-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/new-teen-comedy-unpregnant-seems-to-suggest-that-abortion-is-nothing-but-a-barrel-of-laughs\/","title":{"rendered":"New teen comedy \u2018Unpregnant\u2019 seems to suggest that abortion is nothing but a barrel of laughs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael McCaffrey – August 31, 2020<\/p>\n

The trailer for HBO Max\u2019s Unpregnant appears to ignore the moral complexity of abortion in favor of promoting an insidious amorality on the issue. This is a poor message to send out to impressionable young girls.<\/p>\n

Unpregnant<\/em> is the controversial new abortion buddy comedy movie set to premiere on HBO Max on September 10.<\/p>\n

The film, based on the novel of the same name, tells the story of Veronica, a pregnant 17-year-old girl, and her friend Bailey, as they go on a wild and wacky road trip from Missouri to New Mexico so that Veronica can get an abortion.<\/p>\n

In its trailer, Unpregnant <\/em>sells itself as a zany road picture where hilarity ensues when a goofy odd couple of teenage girls steal a car and try to hop a train on their epic odyssey down the yellow brick road to abortionland.<\/p>\n

The road picture narrative is a long time Hollywood staple. Think Bing Crosby and Bob Hope with their numerous \u201croad to\u201d musical comedies of the \u201940\u2019s and \u201950\u2019s\u2026 except in Unpregnant<\/em>, Crosby and Hope are teenage girls crossing state lines to get an abortion. Hilarious!<\/p>\n

It is easy to see why pro-life advocates are up in arms over Unpregnant<\/em>,<\/em> as the trailer makes the film appear to be a piece of pro-abortion agitprop specifically designed to antagonize them by making light of abortion and demonizing Veronica\u2019s Catholic parents as \u201cJesus freaks.\u201d<\/p>\n

2020 has been a banner year for decidedly pro-abortion films with Unpregnant<\/em>, the critically acclaimed drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always<\/em> and the indie dramedy Saint Frances<\/em>, which all have an amoral attitude toward abortion, all being released.<\/p>\n

Notice I described these films as \u2018pro-abortion\u2019 and not \u2018pro-choice\u2019, and that is because pro-choice implies a grappling with the moral gravity of the abortion decision, whereas pro-abortion removes any moral dimensions at all, and reduces abortion to being akin to getting a nose piercing.<\/p>\n

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Michael McCaffrey – August 31, 2020 The trailer for HBO Max\u2019s Unpregnant appears to ignore the moral complexity of abortion in favor of promoting an insidious amorality on the issue. This is a poor message to send out to impressionable young girls. Unpregnant is the controversial new abortion buddy comedy movie set to premiere on … Continue reading New teen comedy \u2018Unpregnant\u2019 seems to suggest that abortion is nothing but a barrel of laughs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[15203,15201,43,15198,15199,15200,15197,106,15202,15196],"class_list":["post-18898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning","tag-pro-abortion","tag-road-to","tag-abortion","tag-abortionland","tag-bing-crosby","tag-bob-hope","tag-hbo","tag-hollywood","tag-pro-abortion-films","tag-unpregnant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4UO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18900,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898\/revisions\/18900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}