Jane Fonda Muses about Murdering Pro-Lifers
By Emily Huseman
“We have experienced many decades of now having agency over our body, of being able to determine when and how many children to have… I don’t care what the [abortion] laws are. We’re not going back,” actress Jane Fonda declared on an episode of The View this past week.
“Besides marching and protesting, what else do you suggest?” a co-host asked.
“Well, I’ve thought about murder,” she replied with a serious face. The panel erupted with laughter, but Fonda didn’t flinch.
The far-Left abortion activist has since issued a statement regarding her comment but stopped short of an apology.
“While reproductive rights are a very serious issue and extremely important to me, my comment on The View was obviously made in jest," she said.
Since when did it become okay to joke about murdering people who disagree with your radical views? Apparently since a Leftist said it, cancel culture gives it a stamp of approval. While a co-host assured that Fonda was “just kidding,” other radical abortion activists’ comments are not always empty threats. Their coercive language has spurred violence and persecution against those who protect unborn life. Since the opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade leaked from the Supreme Court last May, pro-life pregnancy centers, churches, and organizations have been ruthlessly vandalized, bombed, and broken into by abortion extremists.
The most gruesome aspect of Fonda’s comments is the reality of abortion itself. Although mainstream culture constantly wraps abortion in misleading labels like “empowerment,” “reproductive rights,” and “having agency over our bodies" — according to Fonda — this hides the truth from women.
An unborn child isn’t just a clump of cells or a piece of “pregnancy tissue” like abortion advocates often falsely claim. The truth is that abortion kills the life of an innocent, vulnerable human being. This isn’t just a political or religious view, but a fact of science. At the moment of conception, the sperm and egg cells fuse to make a new individual with its own unique set of DNA. This means the child is not part of the woman’s body, but is a separate human body growing inside the woman’s womb. On average, women find out they are pregnant at five-and-a-half weeks. By that time, the unborn child has a beating heart, eyes, lungs, forming kidneys, and the cerebral hemispheres of the brain are appearing.
Abby Johnson, a former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic, realized unborn children weren’t just clumps of cells when she was asked to assist with an ultrasound-guided abortion. She describes watching the baby on the screen during the abortion “fighting back, desperate to move away from the suction.” This experience led Johnson to leave the abortion industry to become an advocate for the unborn.
In response to Fonda’s comments, Johnson noted how, “Ironic that a woman defending murder of the unborn would call for the murder of those defending the unborn. That’s exactly what we can and should expect from the Left. They have no dignity for any human life.”
Abortion has never been, and will never be, about empowering women or protecting reproductive rights. Women do not become empowered by ending the life of their child. Having a “right” to anything stops when that right infringes on another person’s right to life. Jane Fonda and the other Hollywood elites may erupt into hysteria when pro-lifers defend the most vulnerable, but they will never stop the pro-life movement. The truth will always prevail.
Emily Huseman is a columnist for The Conservateur and works with the Standing for Freedom Center at Liberty University.
