Salon has added to the list of websites creating commemorative year-in-review pieces by offering readers “TV’s 10 best abortion moments of 2016.”
“Conservative overlords” were criticized Sunday at Salon for making 2016 a “terrible year for women.” The liberal website lamented policies like Ohio’s SB 127, which bans the procedure after the 20-week mark, while touting abortions played out on the small screen — even for laughs.
“In a sequence tailor made to make your right-wing family members apoplectic, the animated comedy [“Bojack Horseman”] took Diane’s rational, adult decision and turned it into a musical number,” writer Mary Elizabeth Williams said Sunday of the No. 5 “best abortion” moment. “Sung and danced by a dolphin. Called ’Get Dat Fetus, Kill Dat Fetus.’ The unexpected storyline made for insightful cultural commentary, and a banger for your workout mix.”
Other feted abortion moments include a segment on Samantha Bee’s TBS show “Full Frontal,” and Democrat Hillary Clinton’s support of abortion during her final presidential debate with Republican Donald Trump.
“Proving yet again that he knows nothing about how pregnancy or babies or women’s bodies operate, newly woke ’pro-life’ candidate Donald Trump condemned late-term abortion by declaring, ’In the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb (This is not a thing.),’ Salon wrote.
“Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, a person who has actually given birth, told the nation, ’The government has no business in the decisions that women make with their families in accordance with their faith, with medical advice. And I will stand up for that right.’ The outcome of the election doesn’t change the truth of that statement. It only makes it more urgent.”
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• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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