Dawn Slusher’s job at the Media Research Center is to rage against TV shows that stray from approved right-wing narratives, so it’s unsurprising that she will rage at shows that treat abortion as anything but evil and women who have them as human beings, not murderers. She grumbled in a Feb. 25 post:
What do you get when you combine a movie company known for crass humor with a vulgar, abortion-loving actress? You get a vulgar, crass, abortion-loving production, as is the case with Netflix’s “comedy” Kinda Pregnant.
Adam Sandler’s company Happy Madison Productions made the movie under the direction of Sandler’s nephew Tyler Spindel. Actress Amy Schumer, who also stars as the main character Lainy, served as a writer.
Lainy has always dreamt of being a mom since childhood. But after her long-term boyfriend proposes a threesome with a woman named Moira (Hayley Griffith) instead of proposing marriage as Lainy expected, her life starts spiraling downward, culminating with her faking a pregnancy for attention and compliments.
[…]Abortion rears its ugly head again as Shirley overhears a conversation that makes her think Lainy is pregnant and is planning to abort her baby as Lainy’s two worlds begin to collide. The writers just had to glorify the murder of innocent lives in such a glib, casual way:
[…]No amount of pro-abortion propaganda could save a movie this horrendous. You know a production is a huge failure when even the abortion-loving liberal outlets are tearing it to pieces. In our divisive political climate, this is apparently one thing liberals and conservatives can wholeheartedly agree on- this movie is “Netflix sewage.”
Slusher spent a July 7 post ranting that non-right-wing women don’t hate abortion enough:
There was a time when pro-abortion activists claimed to want abortion to be “rare.” Now, Hollywood starlet Cynthia Nixon sported a “Make Abortion Great Again” hat, as though ending unborn lives by the tens of millions was ever “great” or something to be celebrated. And singer Lily Allen giggled about not being able to remember how many abortions she’s had. Times have certainly changed.
Nixon posted the sun-soaked Instagram photo to protest Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill defunding abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Libs insist the government shouldn’t meddle in abortion but love it footing the bill.
In fact, the Hyde Amendment prohibits federal government money from paying for abortions, so Slusher is being dishonest. Nevertheless, she continued to rant:
The post oozes Hollywood smugness, framing abortion as empowering, not the tragic loss it is. A failed “Democrat Socialist” politician, Nixon’s Instagram reads like a “How to be a Good, Virtue-Signaling, Hollywood Activist for Dummies” guide.
[…]Nixon claims her stance stems from her mother’s illegal abortion. How does learning your sibling was aborted inspire a cause to champion? Her sibling’s voice was silenced, yet Nixon enjoys the privilege of speaking out. And it could have been her own life that was lost had the timing been different.
[…]While Nixon sails into the sunset preening for likes, the unborn don’t get a filter to pretty up their massacre. Abortion isn’t “great.” No snarky hat, “cute” merch, or vacuously braggadocios pop star can hide its tragedy.
As if Slusher is not being a virtue-signaling right-winger by trashing any woman who won’t hate abortion as much as she does as a murderer. Slusher huffed further in a July 29 post:
Infamous pro-abortion activist Lena Dunham is back on television with her new rom-com Too Much (streaming on Netflix), and, unsurprisingly, the series is basically a not-so-subtle ad for abortion. In fact, Dunham openly admitted to consulting with abortion giant Planned Parenthood on the show and told The Hollywood Reporter (THR) she’s on a mission to “normalize” abortion.
[…]There’s absolutely nothing “loving” or heroic about preying on vulnerable pregnant women and ending the life of an innocent, unborn child.
Slusher offered no evidence of Planned Parenthood “preying” on anyone. She went on to rant: “Too Much paints a grim picture: a world where women are told they can’t have both a successful life and a child and where emotionally abusive boyfriends and fearmongering bosses push vulnerable women toward a choice that’s anything but empowering.” Sounds like Slusher wants to side with the emotionally abusive boyfriend.
Slusher groused further about insufficient strict abortion laws in an Aug. 4 post:
HBO Max’s Sex and the City spinoff, And Just Like That, was criticized by pro-abortion fans in season 2 for not being “progressive” enough because they supposedly “tiptoed” around the topic of abortion. Perhaps that’s why the writers decided to make light of the serious issue in its latest episode, “Better Than Sex,” and falsely claim it’s too late for a woman in New York to get an abortion if she’s visibly pregnant.
[…]Because New York state defines “health” so broadly, and because abortionists (who stand to profit from the abortion) are the ones who determine whether the procedure is necessary to protect a woman’s “health,” a woman can obtain an abortion up to birth.
Slusher went on to complain that “New York also passed legislation in 2024 that makes abortion part of their Equal Rights Amendment in the state’s Constitution.” More virtue-signaling.