Hollywood’s Penny Marshall: Pro-choice but glad she gave 1st baby life
She is also vocal about her support for abortion rights after her own experience with unplanned pregnancies. Her first pregnancy with her boyfriend-turned-husband resulted in her daughter, Tracy.
Her second, following her second marriage and divorce to Hollywood director Rob Reiner, resulted in an abortion.
“I’m pro-choice. But I’m glad that there was no choice back then, because I have a wonderful daughter and three grandchildren,” she said.
~ Hollywood director/producer/actress Penny Marshall, pictured above wearing the “L” with Cindy Williams from their Laverne & Shirley days, in an interview with Reuters, September 20
Sep.26, 2012 6:00 am |
Pop Culture, Post-abortion |
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I always find the complete lack of rationality among the abortion-choice crowd astounding.
It always reminds me of Adam and Eve hiding from the Creator of the Universe. And that’s what it means to actually know good and evil – and choose sin – to hold onto irrationality in the face of absolute evidence to the contrary.
I wonder if she will feel the same way if her child and grandchildren decide to euthanize her when she becomes a burden to them. If the progressives get their way, that will be their new “right” to choose.
And I always thought Penny Marshall was acting when she played Laverne.
So doesn’t that mean she regrets the abortion of her second child? If logic were a factor, I mean.
So she is glad she didn’t have a choice the first time because she has a daughter from the lack of “choice” but yet she supports choice now even though it will deny daughters (and sons) to other women? Why are pro-aborts so out of touch with reality? They don’t even realize how dumb they sound.
Just think Penny, if you hadn’t had a “choice” the second time you could have another daughter or a son and probably even more grandchildren!
I was about to say that was the best prolife and prochoice statement when I read that she actually supports abortin. Too bad because the statement itself was pretty good. Indeed, if all prochoicers felt the same I wouldn’t have much of a problem with their position.
I was going to say that it takes a comedian to unveil the absurdity of the prochoice position but now I see that this comedian is absurd since she can discard human life as if life was a bad joke that can be corrected with the next attempt.
To the proaborts out there who follow this blog:
How does this make ANY sense. at all.
What am I missing?
There is no way in the universe her comment makes any sense at all. I wonder if you can even see reality from where she’s standing.
To the proaborts out there who follow this blog:
How does this make ANY sense. at all.
What am I missing?
Well, one thing you’re missing is that there are no “proaborts” who follow this blog.
I wonder if she will feel the same way if her child and grandchildren decide to euthanize her when she becomes a burden to them. If the progressives get their way, that will be their new “right” to choose.
Don’t know about you, but I’m counting on it.
In my experience with post-abortive mothers who remain “pro-choice” and have living children: They disconnect their own responsibility from their decision to kill the child.
In other words, they mourn the lost child as they would mourn a miscarriage. There might be some regret at missing a child that she never got to hold, but there is little awareness of personal guilt for causing that loss.
We know that this repressed guilt is the cause of much suffering in post-abortive women. But the “pro-choicers” can not acknowledge this.
How could she possibly justify this to herself? She made it through an unwanted pregnancy and now adores her daughter and grandchildren,. Then, when she is a successful actress she has an abortion.
To be that selfish and capricious about the life or death of your child is astounding.
Let’s not forget about Meathead’s culpability in all of this. Had he been a man, he would have stepped up and said, “No, let’s raise this child of ours”. My personal experience shows that it only takes one person’s support to change a mother’s mind about terminating. Seems like women get lots of support for getting an abortion, but none for keeping a baby.
To be that selfish and capricious about the life or death of your child is astounding
We always hear that “abortion is something that women do not take lightly,” but quite a few do.
I always thought Laverne and Shirley was stupid, anyway. I’ve just about given up on Hollywood.
Actress Valerie Bertinelli had a miscarriage years ago, and STILL said she thinks a woman should “have the right to choose”.
Apparently: Celebrity= cognitive dissonance.
Seems like women get lots of support for getting an abortion, but none for keeping a baby.
I read that in Sweden if a teenager girl gets pregnant and decides to keep her baby, she is looked upon as being in a word, crazy. It’s the same with some segments in our society.
Is there a way to de-emphasize sexuality so that there will be fewer problem pregnancies?
You’re breaking my heart, Philly!
I used to watch Laverne and Shirley all the time as a kid. But then the story line moved to California, and that’s when it went downhill from there.
Squiggy’s “Hello!” was priceless.
Funny that in the PRC I work in has videos on parenting starring the infamous Rob Reiner.
As a new mom, Penny’s view astounds me. How can any woman experience the miracle of giving life and then advocate for taking it away?
Although I always identified vaguely as “pro-life” (probably in part due to my own mom’s views rubbing of on me), it was the birth of my son that encouraged me to be more active in the movement. I have the desire to help other babies as beautiful, wonderous and lovely as my little son is to me.
Absolutley twisted.
So does Hollywood cause people to go insane or does it attract people who already are?
“Meathead” on All in the Family actually did have the abortion issue with his TV wife, Sally Struthers’ character. She believed she was pregnant, and he went on a rant about how it was unfair to bring a child into the over-crowded world, and burden it even more.
I cannot recall what happened with this pregnancy – I can’t remember if they had a kid, or it was a false pregnancy scare or if she miscarried. I do remember Rob Reiner as Michael Stivek, though, giving his soap-box views on the supposed overpopulation that was going on in 197?.
40 years later, the planet has not yet fallen into environmental collapse. Paul Ehrlich and the rest of us liberals were totally wrong. Wikipedia (and many other existing sources) note Ehrlich as seeing abortion as a necessary tool to avoid the imepnding collapse of the environment or society or whatever he feared in his 1968 “Population Bomb.”
ok, wikipedia also has the all in the family episodes. i possibly have two mixed up:
season 5, ‘Gloria’s Shock:” “In the midst of another of Archie and Mike’s arguments, this one about overpopulation, Gloria discovers that Mike does not want to have children.”
Season 1: “Gloria Has a Belly Full” “Archie get irritated when he learns unemployed Mike has impregnated Gloria. The two get into another argument, prompting Archie to storm out. Eventually, Archie has a change of heart and buys his grandchild a big stuffed panda—only to learn that Gloria has suffered a miscarriage.”
The tragic Barbara Payton was an actress with anti-abortion views. She wrote that when she was pregnant, “I thought about suicide but never abortion.”
Barbara Payton is the worst crash and burn case in Hollywood history. She lost custody of little John Lee Payton when he was 7. However, knowing he was alive and doing well always brought her comfort even in the midst of the horrible tragedies that devastated her life.
Have you heard about Erin Moran — Joanie Cunningham on “Happy Days” — being evicted from a trailer park? As with Barbara Payton, it’s all-too-easy to crash and burn.