[ SECRET POST #6022 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6022 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

It's not because of a grand scheme to always present having the baby as the correct choice to make people IRL not want to have abortions.

It’s not a grand scheme, no. But it is something that does have consequences irl, in that it helps normalize a pro-life view by showing how great a choice it was to have the baby instead of getting an abortion. And when enough shows and other media are doing exactly that, it helps add to the culture that shames women for getting abortions, or even thinking about getting them.

And not every writer is intentionally doing it for that reason. Some just want the built-in plot line of the pregnancy-delivery-new baby character that can do well with audiences. And it let’s the showrunners be a little lazy sometimes by following the story beats of the large amount of other shows that have done the same plot.

But sometimes it is an intentional move to pander to pro-lifers in the audience, and it has the effect of helping to stigmatize abortion when dozens of shows do show not getting an abortion as the better choice.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god, THIS.

Like, as a teen in the 00's, I was always pro-choice because I was raised by progressive, atheist parents in a comparatively left-leaning place. Yet I STILL had an incredibly stigmatized view of abortion. I believed that abortion was something traumatic and shameful that would haunt you if you had one. I didn't morally judge women who had abortions--I was genuinely glad for them that they'd been able to access one when they needed it--but in my mind it was like, "God it must be hard to have to live with the knowledge that you had an abortion."

A plotline like the one in GLOW, or Sex Education, would have blown my teenage mind, and would probably have singlehandedly done a lot to destigmatize my perception of abortion. But because I had literally never once in my life seen or heard abortion spoken of with anything other than either moral condemnation or sad resignation, it simply didn't occur to me that even the standard "liberal" depiction of abortion (while certainly far preferable to the conservative depiction of it) was still loaded with bullshit.

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NAYRT - I think it's largely influenced by the societal pressure for women to both want and give birth to babies. It's so steeped in our culture from childhood onward that there are large swathes of otherwise progressive people who still can't imagine wanting to end a pregnancy for any reason that's not tragic.