NPR’s evening newscast All Things Considered is your daily laugh. On Saturday night, they celebrated the pro-abortion movie Call Jane. Elizabeth Banks was there. Michel Martin, NPR’s host, did not ask any difficult or challenging questions. He only provided facilitations for eight and a quarter minutes.
Martin asked Martin “How did this project get started and what attracted your attention to it?” Martin asked: “How did this project come about?” And, “Do you have a particular person in mind you want to see this film?” What are you hoping people will learn from it?
Martin’s question about making the film just before Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court brought out the most shocking answer: “I just wonder, that that informed the atmosphere in making this movie, the fact that it actually started out being history and then it became news?”
BANKS:…with Dobbs it’s created even more chaos in this space. It has made women more desperate. It’s also created more danger. That was for me, I believe. This pre-Roe, illegal back-alley abortion situation was just too dangerous for women and put their lives at risk.
Abortion is a kind of society’s insurance policy. It covers all the sex we have that isn’t intended to make babies. I don’t know if you do, but I think most of the sex I have had in my lifetime was not intended for making babies. The idea that we will force birth and force pregnancy on people is unconscionable to my mind and feels un-American. It was that reminder in the movie that I felt. These abortion bans are like putting women’s lives in danger.
Banks said, “If you want to have fewer abortions, then you should give us sexeducation and contraception.” As if public schools didn’t offer sex instruction? As if contraception was difficult to find?
The actress wanted to emphasize that “abortion healthcare” isn’t dangerous and that it doesn’t involve the killing of a human being. Banks believed casual sex could be followed by casual abortion. “It was just making sure we presented abortion as it actually is, which is 10 minutes later. She was eating spaghetti. There is no guilt. Just pasta.
NPR noticed the prolife movie Unplanned in 2019. It was about Abby Johnson, a Planned Parenthood clinic owner, who converted to the cause of pro-life. Twitter was accused of limiting its promotion. NPR tried to emphasize that it wasn’t nice for Planned Parenthood and received a rebuttal. The movie’s stars were not interviewed.
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