'Bridget Jones's Baby' Slammed by HuffPost Reviewer for Not Discussing Abortion on Screen
Huffington Post blogger Larua Goldman has criticized the recently released film "Bridget Jones's Diary" simply because abortion and birth control were not discussed as options in the movie.
In "Bridget Jones's Baby," the third movie of the "Bridget Jones" trilogy, the over 40 Bridget Jones (played by Renée Zellweger) breaks up with her boyfriend and then shortly after develops a new love interest. When she ends up getting pregnant, Jones is unsure of who the father is.
Although some women in that situation might consider getting an abortion, Jones decides to carry the child to term.
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Goldman, a freelance booker and producer for ABC's "Good Morning America" and a contributor to the Daily Mail and the Huffington Post, wrote in her review that the movie "generates a belly laugh a minute" and shows why Zellweger "is the queen bee of romantic comedies easily surpassing other pretenders to the throne such as Kate Hudson and Sandra Bullock."
Although Goldman states that the movie is a great romantic comedy and "rates 5 stars," she could not get over the fact that the move declined to take a "braver path" and politicize the issue by talking about abortion on screen.
"The one flaw of the movie is that it overdoses on cuteness instead of taking the braver path of discussing birth control and abortion on screen," Goldman wrote. "Yes, the plot of the movie required that Bridget get pregnant, yet she could have discussed or planned more responsible contraception than 10-year-old vegan condoms found in the bottom of her bag."
"Or in a novel twist, the horny males could have tried and failed to take responsibility for preventing pregnancy," Goldman adds. "It certainly would have been in character for the uptight Mr. Darcy."
Goldman goes on to argue that there is "one crucial word missing from the Bridget Jones script" and it is "abortion."
"It is absolutely inconceivable that Bridget, a single 43-year-old pregnant woman, never considers terminating her pregnancy even if she eventually rejected it," Goldman wrote. "The screenwriters of the film should have had her discuss it with her doctor or could have opted for the less in your face route of having Bridget write about it in her diary, which is now an iPad. It is 2016 not 1950. It is okay for a 43-year-old single woman to fear she can't handle a baby on her own and consider terminating her pregnancy."
Goldman seemingly doesn't understand the fact that some women, especially ones who are 43 years old and older, look at a pregnancy as a blessing, not a curse. In fact, TheBlaze reports that a trailer for "Bridget Jones's Baby" shows Jones looking at her sonogram and saying "You're the best thing I've ever seen."
This is not the first time that left-wing organizations or websites have published criticism when childbirth is promoted in entertainment over abortion.
In February, NARAL Pro-Choice America issued a scathing response on Twitter to a Doritos Super Bowl commercial that showed a sonogram of a baby and used childbirth in a comical manner.
Because the commercial showed the livelihood of an unborn child and personified it by having it rush out of the mother's womb to catch a chip, NARAL accused Doritos of using "antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses."
"#NotBuyingIt," the NARAL tweet states. "that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50."
#NotBuyingIt - that @Doritos ad using #antichoice tactic of humanizing fetuses & sexist tropes of dads as clueless & moms as uptight. #SB50
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 8, 2016
