‘Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul.” So said Marilyn Monroe in the Fifties. Today’s Hollywood – exhausted from the whirligig of kissing, of pouring out billions of dollars – has turned its attention to the souls of the unborn.
Yes, as America’s abortion wars heat up, the great and the good of the silver screen are jumping on the bandwagon.
Planned Parenthood has long reigned as one of the most popular celebrity bandwagons. In 2012, the organisation’s #yesweplan campaign was endorsed by then-president Barack Obama (“women are not an interest group”), singer Mary J Blige and actress Julianne Moore (“we have control over our destinies”), among various others, all trotting out insipid faux-
empowerment drivel.
