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⌈ Secret Post #6901 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[fscom]

I wish more abortion story lines would resolve in the character actually getting an abortion.

[philstar22]

I agree. I wouldn't personally want to watch it any more than I personally want to watch childbirth on screen. Personal squick. But yes, we need more abortions happening for characters where it is treated as normal, healthy, sometimes the right decision to make.

[(Anonymous)]

I... don't think they're suggesting they want to see more of the actual procedure

[(Anonymous)]

If you haven't heard of any and are looking for recs, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has a very nonchalant one in the last season. The abortion decision is made and done in a single episode, and it's for a major character but also the episode's B plot. I don't know if you're looking for more in depth stories, but I liked how matter of factly it was dealt with.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a later episode of Greys Anatomy that walks the patient through an abortion step by step. It's non-graphic and calm.

ALso in Station 11, a character gets a chemical abortion and is suffering through the discomfort with a friend by her side.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like to add Six Feet Under to the list.

[(Anonymous)]

"Of course I cried. I cried more than you have ever cried in your entire life!"

[(Anonymous)]

"Big Boys" by Jack Rooke has in season 2 e3, a character Corinne has a termination (her words), and is calm and considered about it. She takes a friend with her to the clinic. In a later episode while another character is having a baby, Corinne's boyfriend jokes about her having kids which upsets her not just because of the abortion (which he doesn't know about) but because she was adopted and she has a lot of complex feelings about motherhood. Very sensitively handled.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah

[(Anonymous)]

Same. Unfortunately doesn't fly with many networks even if writers want it.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a good storyline in S1 of GLOW where a main character finds out she's pregnant, doesn't want to be (because she's finally been cast in something!) and goes and has an abortion. It's just one of many things going on in that episode and for that character, and the biggest drama about it was her locking her roommate out while she waited for the 1980s pregnancy test to develop!

[(Anonymous)]

I loved the era accurate test tube pregnancy test. The last two things I saw one of those in was The Simpsons (if the water turns blue, a baby for you. If purple ye see, no baby thar be - if the test should fail, to a doctor set sail) and Look Who's Talking. It annoys me when a show is mid-80s set and it's a pee stick. (Looking at you, Young Sheldon)

[(Anonymous)]

I miss GLOW so much, such a good show

[(Anonymous)]

Juno and Knocked Up would've been better with abortions

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, they wouldn't have happened with abortions. I'm all for abortion and agree that irl those situations would have benefitted from it, but the pregnant teenager movie and the movie literally called "knocked up" kind of precluded aborting the pregnancies.

[(Anonymous)]

But the entire point of those movies was to show people dealing with the decision to keep an unwanted pregnancy, which is also a perfectly valid thing to portray.

[bannedbookweek]

Honestly to me it indicates that actually getting abortions really is something that most people don't really want to do and it bleeds into fiction.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, most people don't. They want the option to be there, but they'd rather not ever have to have one. That's part of why the slogan "safe, legal, and rare" was effective.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. A long time ago when "Girls" was the new popular show, I'd read an article comparing how "Girls" and "Sex and the City" approached abortion. I noticed how both shows were trying to destigmatize the fears of talking about abortion, but both shows kind of copped out by finding ways to not have their characters go through with an abortion.

While it was good that the shows presented the topic of abortion from the lenses of women (SATC had Sam and Carrie talk about their abortions and we see how differently Sam and Carrie view it, Miranda had to go back and forth on whether or not she wanted a child - and the show had touched this subject with Miranda before, she'd thought of freezing her eggs; "Girls" went out of their way to say the word "abortion" as much as possible), there is still a bit of a disappointment that neither show were willing to have one of their main characters go through with an abortion.

Shout out to "Jane the Virgin" for having a really good subplot about abortion (and I'm fairly certain it touches on a much bigger truth that we don't talk about when it comes to abortion in America: majority of abortions are women who are in/past middle life). I also loved how Jane was like "Mom this is serious, this is huge! Your emotions must be going crazy!" And her mom was like "Nah, it happens. I don't need this abortion define me in some way. Anyway..."

[(Anonymous)]

Oh that's nice about Jane the Virgin. I love that; an abortion isn't always a huge life-defining event. It can be, but it can also be just a thing that happened with no impact on a woman's life as a whole, same as any other minor medical thing. It's valid to feel any way about it, but it's honestly nice to see it portrayed as something that ISN'T cataclysmic. I have also noticed how most shows don't want their main characters to go through with an abortion. I mean I get it, it's such a hot topic, but I also wish it would become less taboo.