Coming soon to a theater near you: romantic comedies starring abortion!

The Sundance Film Festival might very well have a new darling for Hollywood’s crowd of pro-aborts to crow about. Obvious Child is a romantic comedy coming soon to a theater near you. What’s it about?

So a girl gets dumped, has a one-night stand, and then has an abortion. Sounds super romantic. It’s exactly the stuff girls dream of. Maya Dusenbery at Feministing is thrilled about it, Jezebel gushed over it, and the original short film got rave reviews from Bitch Magazine. And they’re just so, so sad that more movies don’t lovingly feature abortion. Because, you know, that’s just what romantic comedies need to up the love factor: some baby-killing. Nothing says love and intimacy like ripping a baby apart limb from limb!

The odd thing about this is that it isn’t the first time pro-aborts have felt the need to cram abortion into romantic situations. They’ve bemoaned the lack of abortions in romance novels, celebrated a wedding announcement that gushed over the couple’s abortion, and tried to make abortion romantic in the creepiest abortion ad of all time. Abortion advocates have been clamoring to link abortion and romance, and are just dumbfounded that it — shockingly isn’t catching on.

But why would it? There is no one out there who dreams of the day that they can have their very own abortion. Even pro-aborts will say that women don’t make the decision to have an abortion lightly, and pay all kinds of lip service to how difficult and emotional it can be. People read romance novels, or watch romantic comedies, for escapism, to enter a fantasy world for a while, where obstacles can be overcome and love wins in the end. Abortion doesn’t fit into that world.

There’s a decided lack of love in the decision to kill your own child, after all, so why would a story about love feature that decision? It says a lot about the twisted mindset of abortion advocates, that they feel the one thing romance is missing is more stories about abortion. Abortion can’t just be legal. It has to be glorified, celebrated… romanticized. It’s disturbing, to say the absolute least.

Interestingly, over at the very much pro-abortion Slate, the film is being panned. Why? Because the heroine is unlovable, and she’s basically an irresponsible girl who is avoiding consequences.

Does anyone else feel like they just entered The Twilight Zone? This is just one of the points that many pro-lifers have tried to make plenty of times. Abortion is inherently a selfish choice that robs women of hope and love. It takes an innocent life. And yet here is a pro-abortion writer, flummoxed because they can’t empathize with a short film featuring a woman who cavalierly decides to have an abortion.

Still, considering that After Tiller was the darling of the Sundance Film Festival when it debuted, there’s a very good chance that Obvious Child will likely get the same treatment. Also like After Tiller, though, it will probably be ignored by most of America, who doesn’t feel the need to sanctify late-term abortionists, or romanticize killing unborn children.