by Given the ambiguity of the phrase, Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna took the actor’s words literally and, on the social network Twitter, announced that she had notified the Capitol Police about the statements about “killing pro-life politicians.”
Activist and Hollywood star Jane Fonda this Friday defended the “assassination” of anti-abortion politicians as one way for North American women to continue to voluntarily terminate their pregnancies.
“We have been in control of our bodies for several decades and are able to decide how many children we want to have and when. Now that we know what it’s like, let’s not go back, I don’t care about laws. We’re not going back,” said the American actress on the morning show The View.
Host Joy Behar asked the actress what actions she would suggest she take, beyond protesting, to address political decisions that affect women’s freedom, with Fonda saying, “Well, I thought about murder.”
The activist’s comment was interpreted by the other women who participated in the discussion as a joke, but Fonda, 85, did not want to clarify whether she was serious or not.
Given the ambiguity of the phrase, Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna took the actor’s words literally and, on the social network Twitter, announced that she had notified the Capitol Police about the statements about “killing pro-life politicians.”
“As a pro-life member of Congress and faced with the shortage [de Fonda] To clarify that your statement was a joke, we take this threat seriously,” the MP said in a statement.
Anna Paulina Luna also asked The View and the two-time Oscar winner for Klute (1972) and Coming Home (1979) to publicly apologize for her “disgusting behavior” during the conversation.
Jane Fonda’s comments come amid a growing wave of restrictions on women’s reproductive rights in several US states after the Supreme Court struck down the federal right to abortion in June.
Planned Parenthood, an organization that advocates for high-quality, affordable reproductive and medical care in the country, estimates that 18 of the 50 states in the US have banned abortion or severely restricted it, and that in 13 of those, access to it the service is almost impossible. , although there are exceptions.
Jane Fonda, who was born in New York on December 21, 1937, is the daughter of actor Henry Fonda and the sister of actor Peter Fonda, worked with names such as Marlon Brando and George Cukor, Jack Lemmon and Katharine Hepburn. Jane Fonda is part of the “kings of Hollywood”.
The actress has also been noted for her political, anti-war activism, from Vietnam to the invasion of Iraq and for women’s rights, she maintains the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which also recalls her “leading role in the fitness revolution ». and, more recently, his involvement in the global environmental movement, through which he “acquired a new generation of followers.”
