I was watching television on Halloween when one of my favorite movies came on–”The Witches.” I’m not sure what it is about the film that I like so much, perhaps the over-the-top Grand High Witch played by Angelica Houston.
As I watched the part where the witches convene for their meeting, it struck me that the imagery and the language could be caricature of a pro-abortion convention: a room full of abortion clinic directors being told by a higher-up that they are not doing a good enough job. Abortion rates are falling. They must maximize their results.
To accomplish this in the movie, the Grand High Witch introduces the convention to Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse Maker which the witches are ordered to administer to children, turning them into mice and rendering them easier to exterminate.
Now, I don’t think pro-aborts are evil or even witches (although there are undoubtedly some practitioners of the Wiccan religion involved in that movement who bear no resemblance to the witches of the film). But I think this scene is telling as an allegory of a movement of men and women whose common purpose it to ensure the continued legality of life-taking of the innocent.
