December 14, 2023
There’s a transformation that occurs in the hearts and minds of many men when they become fathers for the first time. Speaking purely for myself, it’s one of the best things that’s ever happened to me.
That’s why a recent article in the New York Post about actor Bradley Coopers’ own experience as a dad rang true. According to the article:
“The Hangover” actor said becoming a father made him see life in a new light.
“Every single thing is absolutely shaded by, or brought into glorious colors, by the fact that I get to be a father to a wonderful human being,” he said in an appearance on Amazon Music and Wondery’s SmartLess podcast.
“You have this wonderful thing or breakthrough with a script, or you have a wonderful moment on this set or in an editing room … you have like 40 of those moments every day with your kid, that are that level of joy,” Cooper added. “That’s not spinning it, that’s just the truth.”
It’s a beautifully stated sentiment.
Yet, it’s ironic to note that Cooper is an ardent Democrat and has previously been romantically linked to Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s closest advisor and Chief of Staff. With such a political allegiance and previous positive statements on modern feminism, Cooper very likely supports for abortion, as well.
Time and time again, this is an ongoing problem we see from the silver screen in movies like “Juno” to the pages of the Washington Post where an author revealed her view on abortion changed with the birth of her own child. New life is praised as a transcendental, life-changing force of nature – but that it’s not society’s place to defend it.
People that defend abortion all too often seem to see the beauty of life in their own children and in their own pregnancies but fail to recognize it in others.
Perhaps this is purely political, done for pragmatic reasons, or is a massive philosophical blind spot. Regardless, the incoherence of it breeds tragedy.
And it is ultimately why men should become fathers; it can bring out the best in them and show men why they should be defenders of life and some of the loudest voices in the nation to protect it. The birth of my son has certainly only made the pro-life fight more real for me.