Irish actor Liam Neeson has recently come under fire after he agreed to join Hallow, a Catholic prayer app.
Neeson, who voiced the character of Aslan in the “The Chronicles of Narnia” movies, will be voicing the app’s guided Advent prayers, called “Advent with C.S. Lewis.” Yet Neeson, who was raised Catholic, was an outspoken advocate for legalized abortion in Ireland, and narrated a film from Amnesty International calling for the country’s law protecting preborn children to be revoked, complete with anti-Catholic imagery. The film depicted Catholicism as a “darkness” haunting Ireland, to which abortion was the solution.
Interestingly, old comments of Neeson’s resurfaced at Buzzfeed, in which he spoke of wanting to kill a Black person as “revenge” for the rape of a friend. “I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know?” he told the Independent in the original interview. “So that I could kill him.”
He shared this anecdote a second time in an appearance on Good Morning America, adding that he “did seek help. I went to a priest, I aired my confession, I was reared a Catholic. I had two very, very good friends that I talked to. And believe it or not, power-walking, two hours every day, to get rid of this. I’m not racist. This was nearly 40 years ago.”
This mindset, however, also lends itself to a pro-abortion viewpoint. Whether it’s arguing that women “need” to kill their preborn children due to rape or incest, or because she may be kicked out of her home or face violence or abuse at the hands of a partner or family member if she remains pregnant, Neeson’s anecdote and the actual act of abortion seek to punish an innocent person for the crimes of someone else.
A preborn child has done nothing; he or she is an innocent human being who happens to be in a vulnerable position, making it easy for them to become a victim of violence.
It’s the same situation as Neeson’s story, in which he purposely sought out to find a Black man to murder, knowing that the person he could have potentially killed would likely not have been his friend’s rapist. But it didn’t matter, just like it doesn’t matter in cases of abortion after rape.
In both scenarios, an innocent person would be killed for the sins another person committed.
