History Main / ConvenientMiscarriage

Played with in Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX, in Ran's case, in that she gives birth in litters and tends to lose some. Of course, if looked at from a certain perspective, her miscarriages / stillbirths could be caused by outside sources in that their circumstances are not necessarily environmentally/ circumstantially permissive to pregnancy or the fact that she her body might not be made for carrying a large litter, which would possibly make this trope justified. Nevertheless, she gets grief over it. On the other hand, with Sakuya, pursues a romance and ends up unknowingly pregnant but miscarries, finding out she's pregnant only after going to a doctor over said miscarriage.

* Subverted in ''{{Cerebus}}''. Jaka, Cerebus' love interest, reunites with him after a long separation, only to tell him that she is now married and expecting a child. Cerebus is angry, but eventually relents and gives her some money for the baby. When he next sees her, her pregnancy is seemingly [[{{handwave}} handwaved]] away with a single line about a miscarriage. It looks like Jaka has fallen victim to this trope...[[spoiler:until the end of the story arc, where we learn that Jaka did not miscarry, she had an abortion behind her husband's back. This leads to the end of her marriage, and to her eventually getting back together with Cerebus. In the world Cerebus takes place in, abortion is very, very illegal, and while Jaka's husband did want to have a child, her main motivation for lying to him was to protect him from criminal liability if she was found out]].

* Carrie in ''TheKingOfQueens'' was pregnant for exactly one episode.

* On an episode of the ''{{Rugrats}}'' Charlotte gets a positive result on a home pregnancy test, and Angelica spends the whole episode {{Angst}}ing about not being the center of her parents' attention anymore. At the end of the episode, Charlotte tells her she's not having another baby after all. However, it's not clear if it actually ''was'' a miscarriage, or if she got a false positive...or if she had an abortion due to concerns she and Drew had about finances.

* In ''UpstairsDownstairs'', Sarah's baby is stillborn, and Hazel has an early miscarriage. This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the setting: infant mortality was much higher in 1909 and 1914. Neither case was coverup for a pregnant actress.

* Margaret in ''BoardwalkEmpire'' gets beaten so severely by her husband (in the first episode) that she loses her baby. Not really to avoid her having children (she already had two); probably more so that [[spoiler:she and Nucky could get to a sexual relationship that much quicker]].
* Megan Draper in ''Mad Men'', though this is only revealed after the miscarriage happens. Nonetheless, she does mention that she felt extremely relieved not to have to make a decision about the pregnancy.

** Since then, abortions have become so commonplace in UK drama and especially soaps that they barely cause any controversy at all. One [[{{Squick}} squicky]] example from the last months of ''Family Affairs'' (which probably avoided controversy on the grounds it was Britain's least watched soap opera and no-one noticed): A 14-year-old girl became pregnant by a boyfriend that the viewers [[TheGhost never even saw]], had an abortion the following week without her parents even knowing she was pregnant (although they found out immediately after) and was promptly PutOnABus.

* ''Citizen Ruth'' is about a drug addict who gets pregnant and is fought over by Pro-Life and Pro-Choice groups who both want to use her as a pawn to further their respective causes. Thanks to this trope, neither wins.

* In Margaret Mitchell's ''[[GoneWithTheWind Gone with the Wind]]'', both Scarlett O'Hara and Melanie Wilkes suffer miscarriages, Scarlett after falling down a flight of stairs, and Melanie after a difficult second pregnancy, [[spoiler:resulting in her death.]]

** Mary Jane's pregnancy was originally supposed to tie in to TheCloneSaga. At the time, Peter was going to be revealed as a clone and not the real Peter. Since Peter wasn't the real Peter anymore, this allowed the writers to get around of problem of a baby making Peter too old, but later Marvel changed their minds about Peter being the clone because the fans complained about it. If there had been no complaints, Pete and MJ would have had their baby and been PutOnABus, and all storylines afterwards wouldn't have included them at all. And yes, folks, that means it's our fault OneMoreDay happened.

* [[BitchInSheepsClothing Sae]] - the malicious ''frienemy'' of the leading female in highschool drama ''{{Peach Girl}}'', falls pregnant [[spoiler: only after she conveniently gets attacked]] [[spoiler: it turns out her pregnancy was a phantom one]]

* [[VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Kyrie]] reveals that she had one around the same time Battler was born, which is part of the reason she resents his mother. Had her son lived, Rudolf might have married her instead of Asumu. [[spoiler:With the revelation that Asumu isn't Battler's biological mother, fans have theorized that her son might be closer than she thinks, and EP 6 of the games confirms this.]]

* Lorna in the series ''BombGirls''. Though she is an older woman.

* Carrie White could of caused one in her self titled Stephen King novel, Carrie.

* Katey Sagal's RealLife pregnancy was written into a season of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', but the baby was stillborn in a third-term miscarriage. To avoid the trauma of an infant on-set so soon after her loss, Peg's pregnancy was made AllJustADream.

* ''DirtySexyMoney'' had this with Karen since the show had been cancelled and it gave Karen and Nick a happy ending.

* In a recent arc of ''CaptainAmerica'', the title character's sometimes-girlfriend Agent [[{{Agent13}} Sharon Carter]] of {{SHIELD}} discovered that she was pregnant. She was then taken captive by RedSkull and, after a fight, was found stabbed in the abdomen. The next issue revealed that she had done it to herself to keep her baby away from the Skull. No one blames her. (It's hinted that Red Skull was going to use her baby as his new body.)

* ''{{Berserk}}'' offers a non-ResetButton variant. Casca [[spoiler: became pregnant at the beginning of the Griffith rescue arc]] but the knowledge of it only came up after [[spoiler: the Eclipse happened, where Casca was brutally raped to insanity, and the trauma of it caused her to miscarry the fetus]]. However, since it was [[FetusTerrible tainted with evil]] [[spoiler: the fetus - often referred to as the Child - survived the miscarriage and continued to be a presence in the story.]] This also happens to be mixed with PlotArmor, as several women throughout the story have been [[spoiler: brutally raped by demons and monsters and impregnated as a result]] but none were as lucky as Casca to be given the "luxary" of miscarrying said fetus [[ChestBurster before it came to term...]]

* This is OlderThanRadio, having been used in ''Literature/FannyHill'' in 1748.
** Fanny is strongly suspected to be an UnreliableNarrator. She's just been dumped by her lover (whose father has sent him on a world tour to detach him from her), she's pregnant, and she owes an astronomical sum to her landlady. Her only possible source of income is prostitution, but that would have been impossible in 1748 while pregnant. Moreover, her landlady is a "wise woman" - that is, an abortionist.

* The ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' comic ''Batman: Son of the Demon'' uses the variation. Batman joins up with his WellIntentionedExtremist enemy Ra's al Ghul, marries his daughter, Talia, and gets her pregnant. Talia decides that to defend her and the baby would hold Batman back from his mission, and fakes the miscarriage; the last we see is their son, in an orphanage, holding the necklace Bruce gave to Talia. This story was [[{{Retcon}} retroactively declared]] an {{Elseworld}} and then {{retcon}}ned right back to being canon years later, when Talia presented Bruce with his son [[MeaningfulName Damian]], now 10 years old.

* Sarah Hendrickson in ''BigLove''.

Keep in mind that this may be TruthInTelevision; about 15% of ''known'' pregnancies end in a miscarriage. Some studies, which use the most sophisticated and sensitive tests for pregnancy to detect it almost immediately, long before most commercial tests or the woman is likely to realize she's pregnant, indicate that ''70 to 80%'' of successful fertilized eggs will miscarry. Sometimes the woman also wanted an abortion -- but in most cases, the woman didn't even know she was pregnant; the fertilized egg simply fails to implant (or disintegrates upon implantation) and she either has a perfectly normal period or one that is slightly late and slightly heavier than normal.