Privacy Policy

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website.

Thanks to the support of 400,000 grassroots patriots, Turning Point USA reaches and impacts millions of students on campus and online. Please consider joining our cause with a tax deductible gift today!

DONATE NOWDONATE NOW
TPUSA Live
TPUSA Live

Jane Fonda Calls For The ‘Murder’ Of Pro-Life Activists On ‘The View’

While speaking on ABS's talk show, "The View," 85-year-old actress and abortion rights activist Jane Fonda recommended "murder" as a possible solution to regaining abortion access in the wake of Roe v. Wade's demise.
ABC’s “The View”

While appearing on ABS’s talk show, “The View,” 85-year-old actress and abortion rights activist Jane Fonda recommended “murder” as a possible solution to regaining abortion access in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s demise.

While speaking with the cohosts of “The View,” Fonda echoed sentiments she has repeated a number of times since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last year, which ruled that abortion is not a right afforded to women under the Constitution.

‘We have experienced many decades now of having agency over our bodies and being able to determine when and how many children to have. We know what that feels like, we know what that’s done for our lives, we’re not going back — I don’t care what the laws are, we’re not going back.”

Jane Fonda on “The View”

After her statement, cohost Joy Behar asked Fonda, “Besides marching and protesting, what else do you suggest?” to which Fonda responded, “Murder.”

Almost immediately, other hosts repeated, “She’s kidding! She’s just kidding!” Despite Behar’s attempts to defuse the comments, Fonda remained unphased. She did not laugh at the apparent “joke” and dramatically stared at the other hosts. The women of “The View” tried to move on quickly by joking about how “they’ll pick up on that and just run with it,” referring to pro-life activists or conservative media.

The response from conservatives has been intense, as abortion rights activists are now not only calling for babies in the womb to be killed out of convenience but are also bold enough to advocate for the murder of adults who pose an inconvenience to their objective.

“Forget ‘safe, legal, and rare,’ the abortion mindset wishes death to anyone undesired . . . Getting rid of people for the sole and shallow reason that you don’t want them around has led to millions of deaths, and Jane Fonda once again shows that her so-called interest in human rights is only for people who think like her.”

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America — Fox News Digital

Fox News Digital noted in their report on the subject that their reporters reached out to the most prominent abortion rights organizations in the country for comment, including Planned Parenthood, but did not receive a single response from the typically-outspoken groups.

In a later statement to The Daily Beast, Fonda explained, “While women’s reproductive rights are a very serious issue and extremely important to me, my comment on The View was obviously made in jest. My body language and tone made it clear to those in the room—and to anyone watching—that I was using hyperbole to make a point.”

Despite her defense that the comments were “in jest,” many still feel that it was a wildly inappropriate standard to set for commentary, given the frequent acts of violence against pro-life organizations and individuals across the country in recent years.

Fonda went on the record years ago explaining that much of her activism has been influenced by her late mother, who had nine abortions prior to Fonda’s birth.

Projecting the ‘Hateful Rhetoric’ Narrative on Conservatives

Earlier this month, conservative commentator Michael Knowles gave a speech regarding the ideology of transgenderism, stating that it should be “eradicated” for the good of society. Following his comments, left-leaning media outlets accused Knowles of essentially calling for genocide.

“For the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology — at every level.”

Michael Knowles speech

Rolling Stone was one such media outlet that took Knowles’ “eradicate” comment to this unintended extreme, writing, “There is no separating a ban on ‘transgenderism’ from an attack on transgender people.” California State Senator Scott Wiener posted to Twitter, “It’s a straight up call for genocide. That’s what this fight is about. They want us gone.”

Michael Knowles was clear in his speech, and clear in comments made following it — this was not a call to eradicate people, it was a call to eradicate a cancerous ideology. The left’s inability or unwillingness to separate “transgenderism” and “transgender person” does not change the reality of what was said.

Liberal activists who took aim at conservatives for criticizing transgender ideology have also justified Fonda’s explicit comments about murdering pro-life activists.

One self-described “pangender, trans masc, femme-ish, disabled,” environmental undergraduate rushed to Fonda’s defense on Twitter, writing the following:

“. . . it’s no shock that Jane Fonda is this angry, and said what she said. She KNOWS what she said. She knows how things can be misconstrued . . . She knows how to choose words carefully. She knows how to navigate being ‘Gentle’ with her words. So when she said that, I promise you it was her pointing out that yes, it’s THAT bad here. That we are in a life-or-death situation.

“So while I understand Lily Tomlin wanting to protect her with ‘it was a joke,’ I guarantee you that her words were DELIBERATE AS F***.”

“So believe me when I say, she knows what she said, and she meant it. And I cannot blame her in the slightest.”

Eli on Twitter

A clear criticism of an ideology that tells people that they were born in the wrong body and to fix it, they need to permanently and surgically alter themselves, creating lifelong ailments, is apparently a call for genocide, according to progressive activists. But a literal suggestion to murder ideological opponents is justifiable because women need to have the right to kill their unborn children.

The left would appear to be attributing their own thoughts and intentions to conservatives — which is, of course, the very definition of projecting.

“I want to congratulate Turning Point because you’re creating a change that will affect us for decades.”

- Rudy Giuliani