The angel. Activist and Hollywood star Jane Fonda this Friday called for the “assassination” of politicians who oppose abortion as one of the ways Americans can continue to choose to have an abortion.
“We have spent several decades being in control of our bodies and choosing how many children we want and when. Now that we know how it feels, we’re not going back, I don’t care about the law, we’re not going back!” he said on morning show The View.
Host Joy Behar asked the actress what action she proposed, beyond protests, to address policy decisions affecting women’s freedom, to which Fonda remarked, “Well, I’ve been thinking about the murder.”
Her comment was taken as a joke by the other women who joined the discussion, but Fonda, 85, declined to clarify if she was serious.
Given the ambiguity of the phrase, Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna took her words literally, announcing on her Twitter that she had notified Capitol Police of this call for the “murder of pro-life politicians.”
“As a pro-life member of Congress, and given (Fonda’s) failure to respond to clarify that his testimony was a joke, we take this threat seriously,” he said in a statement.
She also called on The View and the winner of two Best Actress Oscars for Klute (1972) and Coming Home (1979) to publicly retract her “disgusting behavior” during the interview.
Fonda’s comments come amid a growing spate of restrictions on women’s reproductive rights in several US states after the Supreme Court struck down state abortion rights last June.
The organization Planned Parenthood, which works to ensure high-quality and affordable reproductive and medical care in the country, estimates that 18 of the 50 states in the USA have banned or severely restricted abortion and 13 of them have access to this offer practically impossible, although there are exceptions.