MAGA Melts Down at Oscar Winner Over 4-Year-Old Comments

The View Four-year-old comments made by Hollywood star Anne Hathaway have ignited belated MAGA outrage.

Hathaway, who is currently pregnant with her third child, shared her thoughts on abortion when she appeared on The View in November 2022.

During the segment, co-host Joy Behar read out an Instagram post Hathaway made in July that year to mark the 16th anniversary of her film The Devil Wears Prada .

The actress noted in the social media post that the young females in the movie were able to build their lives and careers “in a country that honored their right to have choice over their own reproductive health.” She added, “See you in the fight.” The post came just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs.

Wade , ending nearly 50 years of federal constitutional protection for abortion rights, leaving individual states free to restrict or ban the procedure.

In May of this year, 20 states now ban or severely restrict access to abortions, according to The N ew York Times .

On The View , Hathaway said that she had been thinking about the “implications” of “living in a country that puts us in this position again.” Adding that it was “not a moral conversation about rights,” but a “practical conversation about women’s rights,” the actress added, “My own personal experience with abortion, and I don’t think we talk about this enough, abortion can be another word for mercy.

We don’t know.” Noting that “no two pregnancies are alike,” she asked “how can we have a law, how can we have a point of view on this that says we must treat everything the same? When you allow for choice, you allow for flexibility, which is what we need in order to be human.” A truncated and out-of-context 38-second clip of Hathaway’s 2022 comments on The View was shared on Monday by LifeNews.com , which says it is a “pro-life news outlet fighting abortion.” The clip soon spread through MAGA, shared by Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who posted , “This is truly sick,” to her 5.3 million followers.

Republican Senator Mike Lee posted , “Anne Hathaway: `Abortion can be another word for mercy.’ Babies: `The word `mercy’ doesn’t mean what you think it means’.” Former swimmer turned conservative commentator Riley Gaines posted , “Anne Hathaway thinks it can be merciful to end human life deemed inconvenient.

And all the women of The View smile and not along in agreement.” American conservative talk radio host Dana Loesch referenced a new Hathaway movie not due for release until 2028, stating “This doesn’t bode well for when D ays of Thunder promo starts,” while the LibsofTikTok account simply called Hathaway “DEMONIC.” The Daily Beast has contacted Hathaway’s reps for comment.

Hathaway has taken a pummeling from conservatives.