'Another Word for Mercy': Anne Hathaway Drops Passionate Statement on Abortion Rights

Celebrity guest Anne Hathaway asserted during the most recent episode of ABC's "The View" that "abortion can be another word for mercy."

"My own personal experience with abortion, and I don't think we talk about this enough, abortion can be another word for mercy," she said.

According to Fox News, she stated that no two pregnancies are alike; thus, no two lives are alike, then no two conceptions are alike.

"So how can we have a law, how can we have a point of view on this that says we must treat everything the same," Hathaway asked.

Anne Hathaway's Abortion Remarks Following the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

In the last part of the show, co-host Joy Behar asked Hathaway about her post about abortion on the 16th anniversary of her movie "The Devil Wears Prada."

Behar read Hathaway's post on Instagram earlier this year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, in which she said she would "fight" for abortion rights, MSN noted.

"We're in the fight every day. We're in the fight every minute. And you mentioned 'The Devil Wears Prada' turning sweet 16. Some 16-year-old's life has been irrevocably changed because of the overturning of Roe v. Wade," she said.

In the 2006 hit movie, Hathaway played Andy Sachs, who deals with a fashion magazine's very demanding editor, Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep.

The actress linked her part in the movie to the loss of the right to have an abortion by saying that her role was a young woman who was about to start her career, and when a young woman is starting her career, her reproductive destiny matters a great deal.

She continued her statement by saying that it had just happened, and she constantly thought about it.

"I think we all think about it all the time, and what the implications are and what it means to live in a country that puts us in this position," she said.

Hathaway also mentioned that she could not take freedom of choice for granted if she played that role today.

"And by the way, this is not a moral conversation about abortion, this is a practical conversation about women's rights, and by the way, human rights, because women's rights are human rights," she added.

Anne Hathaway Also Advocates "Trans Rights"

Hathaway strongly supports "trans rights," aside from heavily supporting abortion rights.

Notably, the debate over transgenderism primarily revolves around kids and whether it should be acceptable for young people to receive permanent medical interventions. Girls' and women's sports and spaces just for women are also a source of political disagreement, The Daily Wire reported.

The actress also mentioned that Donald Trump took away civil rights protections for transgender people in health care during a pandemic, Pride Month, the fourth anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub attack, and the week Riah Milton and Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells were killed.

She added that she is as angry as she has ever been and will fight alongside her trans brothers and sisters.

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Written by: Bert Hoover

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