NYTimes Movie Critic Doesn't Even Try to Hide Her Outrage at Pro-Life 'October Baby'
New York Times critic Jeannette Catsoulis didn't even try in her brief review to render an objective look at the pro-life movie "October Baby," as her copy seethed with anger and evident indignation that pro-lifers still existed in this day and age (note to Catsoulis: by some poll numbers, there are more pro-lifers that pro-abortion believers). Catsoulis's political views are of the simplistic left-wing variety, as she has demonstrated on several occasions in past reviews. She wrote in Friday's Times:
More slickly packaged than most faith-based fare, “October Baby” gussies up its anti-abortion message with gauzy cinematography and more emo music than an entire season of “Grey’s Anatomy.” But not even a dewy heroine and a youth-friendly vibe can disguise the essential ugliness at its core: like the bloodied placards brandished by demonstrators outside women’s health clinics, the film communicates in the language of guilt and fear.
Young Hannah goes off to find her birth mother after learning she survived a botched abortion, and pro-life terror ensues:
But this G-rated road trip is only an appetizer: the film’s pièce de résistance arrives in the haunted form of Jasmine Guy, playing the clinic nurse who assisted at Hannah’s birth. Her pivotal speech, a gory portrait of fetal mutilation and maternal distress, conjures a vision of medical hackery that is clearly intended to terrify young women -- and fits right in with proposed state laws that increasingly turn the screws on a woman’s dominion over her reproductive system.
Catsoulis concluded with a cri de couer for abortion:
“Hate the crime, not the criminal,” a friendly police officer advises Hannah. Except that abortion is not a crime, no matter how fervently some people continue to wish that it were.
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Except that abortion is not a crime,
Submitted by vrwc13 on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:28am.
"Except that abortion is not a crime, no matter how fervently some people continue to wish that it were."
...killing an innocent child is a crime, God thinks so anyway. I'll go with Him.
btw: about 85% of this country claim to believe in God, just how many stop and think once in awhile that someday they are going to see Him face to face and make an account of their life?
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
And America
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:29am.
will be judged too.
Something liberals never understood - just cause it is legal does not make it right.
...can of worms misterbee
Submitted by vrwc13 on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:44am.
...just cause it is legal does not make it right.
Right you are misterbee:
And as far as arguing what is 'right', I'll let the final Judge of all make that call.
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
Language of guilt and fear?
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:23am.
How about plain truth?
Guilt and Fear
Submitted by m1xram on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 1:44am.
the film communicates in the language of guilt and fear.
Why shouldn't murderers feel guilty and fear judgment? That's a good thing. It might even save innocent children from being sliced up and tossed in a dumpster. What did they do such that they were sentenced to death without a judge and jury or even charges.
That's why they don't want to see the truth, it makes them guilty.
The opposite of Left is Freedom.
Geeze
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:41am.
A baby survives an abortion attempt, grows up and wants to meet her Mom and this is somehow horrifying??
What's wrong with these people.
...guilt
Submitted by vrwc13 on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:44am.
...guilt
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The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
Good one.
Submitted by Bass_Man on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:48am.
nt
~Nailed it
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:51am.
The girl is (literally) living proof that they're killing human beings.
After-birth abortion
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:55am.
This film comes out weeks after a news story about two Australian "medical ethcists" who rationalized the killing newborns when (a) the abortion was botched and the baby was delivered, (b) the baby has a birth defect that had gone undetected during the pregnancy, or (c) the baby would impact the family's lifestyle. According to them, the newborn does not yet have a life because it is not "self-aware."
In such cases, these two summized that the parents and/or the government (where the government provides health services and would be burdened financially providing care for the child) have the right to kill the baby days or even weeks after delivery (They were leaving that up to other doctors to determine just how long post-birth/pre-life is).
I suspect that the film critic would be supportive of after-birth abortion in this case as the mere existence of the abortion survivor fills her with hatred and disdain. The character is proof that that unborn babies do in fact become real people regardless of whether the mothers wants them or not.
abortion is not a crime, no
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:49am.
abortion is not a crime, no matter how fervently some people continue to wish that it were.
I've been saying for a long time that this is the result when a country loses its moral footing.
Nothing is "right" or "wrong." There is only legal and illegal.
It all comes down to whether there is a law against it.
That's the way liberals like it. Rather than change hearts and minds, they use "fairness" or "equality" as a hammer to get things written into law.
And once something is legal, there is no 'standing' to oppose it.
Once gay "marriage" becomes legal, there will be no "standing" to oppose that, either.
You are right motherbelt
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 12:39pm.
At one time slavery was legal in the United States.
It could be again, if Congress writes a law saying so.
I don't think some people understand this fact.
I have never really
Submitted by Bettendor on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:54am.
I have never really understood how people, at least seemingly right-thinking people who claim to value life, can be for abortion. The whole pregnancy process to some of these people is a matter of semantics: If you want to keep the baby, it is a baby. However, if you want to "terminate the pregnancy," then it's a glob of tissue that can be easily disposed of.
As has been said several times already here, just because it's legal doesn't make it. Heck, slavery was once legal, too. Was it right? Of course not.
"You just don't get it." - Pa Grape
http://disciplebeacon.blogspot.com
Let's face it, we live in the
Submitted by bretzysdude on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 12:24pm.
Let's face it, we live in the Bizarro world.
Yes it is. Abortion is a crime.
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:57am.
Man can not supercede GOD's law with one of our own. Abortion is a crime and an abomination to GOD.
There is NO WAY around it. There is only acknowledgment, repentance and forgiveness.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
October Baby
Submitted by NewLife56 on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 12:12pm.
Except that abortion is not a crime, no matter how fervently some people continue to wish that it were.?
Nope, it's just Murder, did they legalize that?
Something to think about...
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 12:20pm.
Abortion is the only medical procedure where the goal is to kill one of the people involved. The only way both patients can survive is if the doctor screws up.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Libs: Would you abort a baby NOT conceived by rape or incest?
Submitted by Slyrr on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 12:35pm.
The thing I find most irksome about the abortionists is their constant use of rape and incest as weapons to make their arguments. They never stop caterwauling about how limiting abortions will force the victims of rape and incest to give birth to the babies that such victims may conceive against their will.
They say nothing about real world statistics. I would like to see a study conducted, to learn exactly how many pregnant girls and women are in that state because they were raped, or knocked up by a family member. My guess is that the number would be microscopic, in comparison to people who get pregnant through consensual recreational sex (aka fornication), or as consensual sex within marriage.
Yet the liberal left wants to paint a narrative that ALL pregnancies are caused either by rape, or incest, or both. They convey the horrible impression that no woman ever gets pregnant unless they were raped by a stranger or a family member. It tallies perfectly with their desire to cast pregnancy not as a blessed means of reproduction within marriage, but as a disease that must be stamped out by force.
This movie critic fits that mold to a pathetic T.
The question is not 'Would you deny an abortion to a woman who got pregnant as a result of rape or incest?'. That has never been an issue. There are already laws on the books which take that into account, and no woman is ever forced to give birth to an illegitimate child, if they don't want to bring it to term. But such instances are a miniscule exception to the rule, and are NOT normal, regular or common.
The REAL question is, 'Do you think that babies which are NOT the result of incest or rape should be aborted?'
THAT is how conservative media and Republican politicans should be turning the liberal's argument back against them, and exposing them for the monsters that they are.
Straw-woman argument
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 12:52pm.
Agreed. Even Planned Parenthood's "spawn", the Guttmacher Institute, has previously estimated that only(!) between 3-5 percent of abortions have anything at all to do with rape or incest (let's leave out the oft-touted "health of the mother" provision which is wide enough in definition to include an instance of a "gee, sure is inconvenient to be pregnant" thought as well).
By their own standards that means far in excess of 95% of abortions do not fit into their precious little meme about their compassionate concern for the plight of the poor pregnant "victim" of these crimes.
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Another Example Of
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 12:36pm.
Extreme Leftist vocal minority attempting to impose their will on the mainstream majority.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Ok...
Submitted by retrocon on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 12:42pm.
i agree with pretty much all the comments here.
But wait...
With this plot, i guess i will just have to see the movie...
"Young Hannah goes off to find her birth mother after learning she survived a botched abortion..."
Is this about a family reunion and/or forgiveness? Or a quest for revenge?
Sorry... but something about that premise bothers me.
Very much about forgiveness
Submitted by GrannyGrump42 on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 2:22pm.
Very much about forgiveness -- watch this amazing bit about the woman cast as the protagonoist's biomom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjx1mb6WY-I&feature=player_embedded#!
I've always wanted to ask
Submitted by dzejk113 on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 12:42pm.
one of these blood-thirsty pro-abortionists how snuffing out a life before it even begins is any different than doing so after it begins? Even if you were to accept their premise that a fetus is not alive, it soon will be, so how is that not taking a life? How is that not murder? I can't even begin to fathom what it's like to live in the logic-void bubble that is liberalism
I have
Submitted by Okieflyover on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:32pm.
I have told several pro abortionists that I was in the operating room when my wife had 3 of our kids by C section. No one can tell me those kids were less whole 5 minutes before they were born than they were after the were slapped on the butt by the doctor. But planned parenthood says we should promote late term abortions for the "life and health of the mother". I have never heard of a medical scenario where that procedure of late term abortions could save the life of the mother. This seems to shut them up. They don't deal in facts well. Just Nancy Pelosi type rhetoric.
If we went to a true following of roe v wade we would cut abortions in half. There would be no late term abortions and much fewer 2nd trimester abortions.
And these are the same idiots that support killers like Mumia,
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 12:52pm.
Che Guevera, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Islamofascists, and are against the death penalty across the board. In their case I think an abortion was warranted.
I thought they want women to know all the facts.
Submitted by JeffC... on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 12:53pm.
Planned Parenthood claims they want to give the women all the facts.
Except what a baby looks like via ultrasound. If it's not a human, what is it? (Was it Hitchens who said that?)
Except to show and tell exactly what happens during an abortion.
PP doesn't want to do anything that affects their bottom line.
Oddly enough.....
Submitted by Me1976 on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 2:30pm.
.....a preabortion ultrasound, to determine gestational age (they have to figure out how much to charge after all), is part of the usual procedure at Planned Parenthood. They even use vaganal ultrasounds. Opponents of the law in TX say it is akin to rape. So, is Planned Parenthood raping these women before they have an abortion?
Did Ms. Catvomit see any of the anti-war propaganda?
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 1:54pm.
She whines and moans about using "language of guilt and fear", yet those anti-American, unpatriotic bullcookies produced by such liberal dimwit stalwarts as Matt Damon exactly used that "language of guilt and fear" to paint Americans as villains. The good thing is all of the antiwar crap movies were bombs at the box office, reflecting the view of most Americans that they had no interest in that kind of garbage.
Heaven forbid that a film actually discusses what happens during an abortion procedure and the effects it may likely have on the woman, as opposed to the rainbow and unicorn garbage the pro-abortion crowd pushes.
Liberals and Abortion, ????
Submitted by Less1leg on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 2:12pm.
I always hear about liberals crowing on and on about rights and its my right and its a woman's body, and on and on. the newest trend in official liberalism is the rights of Gays/Lesbians to children.
But where's the child's "rights" when it comes to parents. Since a man and woman copulated the outcome has been pretty well defined, a child. Almost works every time. And I say -- almost --. Human development has imprinted human existence as that between a male partner and a female partner. I don't see liberal ethics working in this unless you are a modern liberal ethics person pushing an experimental human ethics program forcing Gay/Lesbian acceptance into a proven million plus year evolutionary accepted model. Its only been what thirty years since Gays/Lesbians have been given legal protection under the law to promote "their version" of wonderful. And since that day look at that liberals call "progressive".
But where's the rights of the "child"? Ah, don't worry being in a gay/lesbian relationship is no different than being in a straight relationship. No harm done. It's all about caring and love. Isn't it?
Except the rights of the child. Nobody asks about the rights of that little girl or little boy if "they" wanted a Mom and a Dad. Human evolution has already ingrained into the human person what a Dad does with his little girl as much as how he adapts with his little boy. But where's the rights of the child? gone wiped away by political correctness. Gone are the evolutionary buttons that only a Dad can be to his son or daughter. Its ingrained in a Male person, hard wired.
Yes, there are bad parents out there. No question. But there are way more good parents than bad ones. And every child, deserves a Mom and Dad, not a Mom & Mom or a Dad & Dad. Liberal society is sending out conflicting messages unknowingly to children. A Grande Experiment, denying the rights of the child.
Just want to make sure I've got this straight
Submitted by Me1976 on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 2:24pm.
bloody placards = bad
dead, bloody, torn apart babies = good
Makes perfect sense.
Maybe she's mad because if Obama had his way, that baby would not have had a chance to grow up to make her own choices (oh the horror), she should have been left in a cold, dark room with no nourisment or comfort to die.
Yup. Makes perfect sense.
Man, a liberal sitting
Submitted by ant on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 5:06pm.
Man, a liberal sitting through this movie must resemble the scene in The Omen where Damien is taken to Church.
"A woman's dominion over her reproductive system.." Is that like an alchoholic's dominion over his liver?
If all the pro-aborts had
Submitted by mattm on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 6:57pm.
If all the pro-aborts had been aborted, there would be no pro-aborts.
Jeebus... Honey
Submitted by donabernathy on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 8:41pm.
"essential ugliness at its core: like the bloodied placards brandished by demonstrators outside women’s health clinics"
Walk into the "DR's Office" and take a peek at the real Horror.
The science is settled... Life begins at Conception.
But of course ...if you dehumanize your victims... you can perpetrate all kinds of evil. History is loaded with examples.
Why not Stand up right and quit dragging your knuckles. Embrace the new Century, Science and Humanity.
roflmao
That seals it
Submitted by Okieflyover on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 11:24pm.
I am going to see this movie just to make liberals' eyes bleed.
Anything
Submitted by Ozconservative on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 10:19am.
Any movie that makes leftwing moonbats screech and hiss like a vampire confronted with holy water is well worth seeing.
It's a story on the power of forgiveness
Submitted by GrannyGrump42 on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 2:18pm.
"October Baby" was inspired by the real life story of Gianna Jessen, an abortion survivor who is now a Christian singer and speaker.
For more, visit:
http://octoberbabymovie.net/