To seriously consider “Roe v.
Wade” — that is, writer-directors Cathy Allyn and Nick Loeb’s atrocious anti-abortion propaganda piece and not the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision in favor of abortion rights — it is helpful to remember a 2017 quote by journalist Chuck Todd.
“Alternative facts are not facts.
They’re falsehoods,” Todd succinctly said when confronting Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on her use of the term.
While the Trump era that Conway’s expression sums up is behind us, “Roe v.
Wade” has reportedly been in the works for the past three years, so it’s fair to reflect on the baffling film as a product of that period, when right-wing fabrications were routinely presented as truth.Targeting politically simpatico viewers and anyone they can convert on the other side of the aisle — while perhaps taking a page out of the former administration’s playbook — Allyn and Loeb present their own
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