Good Girls Avoid Abortion / Film

• Adam's Apples: Sarah, who contemplates having an abortion due to being both a single mother and over the possibility that the baby would have Down Syndrome (given that she's forty). Ivan persuades her to keep it, (falsely) citing his own son who he says was supposed to be born disabled but isn't (he actually is). She goes on to have a son with Down Syndrome, but by then she doesn't seem to care.
• Act of Vengeance: One of the women mentions her past abortion was used by the defense at her rape trial, painting her as bad in the jury's eyes.
• Averted in April Fools' Day when it turns out that the supposed Shrinking Violet Nan was pregnant and had an abortion. This comes after someone left a tape of a baby crying in her room. It's implied she got pregnant after a one night stand who dumped her, which serves to make her sympathetic.
• Badhaai Ho: Babli agrees that getting pregnant in middle age is embarrassing, but she's unwilling to abort and considers it sinful. She later gives birth to a baby girl.
• The movie Bella is all about a (recently unemployed) single woman dealing with the knowledge that she is pregnant and making a decision of what to do about it. Abortion is certainly considered, with her saying things like 'I said I was pregnant; I didn't say I was having a baby.' In the end, she allows a friend to adopt her child, after seeing what a great family he has. Whether or not she is a 'good girl' depends on definitions, but she is certainly portrayed as a sympathetic character with good intentions.
• Averted in The Big Chill: Meg is telling her old friend Sarah that she's fine giving up on the search for Mr. Right, but frustrated because she's always wanted a child. When Sarah gives her a meaningful look, she quickly adds "But it was the right thing to do at the time." The audience later learns that she's referring to an abortion she had after she and Michael conceived back in their college days. In the end, Sarah asks her husband to sleep with Meg and father her child. Since this was before IVF became widely available, this makes sense in context.
• Played with in Black Christmas (1974). Jess discovers she's pregnant and plans to get an abortion, even when her boyfriend proposes marriage. Her reasons are that she's too young to start a family, and she's presented sympathetically. The boyfriend is then implied to be abusive (and he's a suspect for who could be the killer), which helps make Jess's decision more sympathetic.
• Blood Quantum: Zig-Zagging Trope. Joseph's girlfriend Charlie is planning on getting an abortion early in the movie, and Joseph is supportive, but it never happens because of the chaos caused at the hospital by the zombie outbreak.
• Played with in Blue Denim: After a teenage couple, Janet and Arthur, find themselves expecting a baby, they seek help to pay for an abortion, and find a doctor willing to perform the procedure; however, because it takes place in the 1950's, there is some worry over the safety of the procedure itself and in the end Arthur, worried that Janet will die, breaks down confessing to his parents, and they go to rescue her just in the nick of time. They go home, and the parents of both teenagers have a discussion before agreeing, with Janet's consent, to send her to live with her aunt. The characters constantly skate around the word "abortion", but the euphemisms, and the characters' worry about the procedure, makes it pretty clear to the audience as to what it is they're planning to do. In the play Janet has the abortion after all, and lives through the procedure.
• Played straight in Blue Valentine; Cindy goes to a clinic to get an abortion but backs out at the last possible second.
• In Breakfast on Pluto, Patrick "Kitten" Braden's childhood friend Charlie travels to London to have an abortion. Kitten accompanies Charlie to the clinic, assuring her that she's making the right decision, fearing the child might end up a "disaster" like Kitten herself. Charlie decides against it at the last second — turns out she wouldn't mind at all if the child ended up like Kitten.
• Subverted in Coach Carter, where Kyra is initially planning to keep her baby (despite being a teenager). It's later revealed that she got an abortion. Neither the movie nor her boyfriend demonize her for this.
• Code 46: Inverted. The authorities give Maria an abortion without her consent because William had got her pregnant, and wipe her memory afterward. It's because she's a clone of his mother, which violates the "Code 46" of the title.
• The killer in the film Criminal Law believes this to an extreme degree, murdering women who had abortions and eventually his own mother, who performs them (he discovered the rest looking in her records).
• In the Lifetime Movie of the Week The Devil's Child, a woman pregnant with The Antichrist tries to get an abortion, but a mysterious explosion kills everyone in the hospital.
• The Irish film Dive deals with a champion swimmer getting pregnant while she's still in school. Heightening the tension is the fact that abortion was illegal in Ireland at the time^note They actually repealed the 8th amendment mere weeks after the film's release. - meaning if she wanted one, she'd have to travel to the UK for the procedure.
• Discussed in The Doors: During Jim's breakdown toward the end, at least two women claim to be pregnant. In one scene, he talks over the matter with Patricia. She wants to keep the baby and raise it ("It would be a genius."), Jim is against raising it ("It would be a monster."). She says she doesn't like "the other fucking thing, either." Although Jim offers to pay for the abortion and support her through it the idea upsets Patricia, although she's so far been shown as a feminist and a practicing white witch (the very women who might have been persecuted for providing abortifacients in the past). The outcome isn't shown, and Jim flies to Paris shortly after.
• Enter the Void: Linda receives an abortion after getting pregnant from her boss, a seedy strip club owner. Linda is emotionally damaged and living a dangerous lifestyle, and her abortion plays into that.
• Averted in Fame, at least in the 1980 version. The ballet dancer has to have an abortion in order to pursue her career. She's somewhat awkward about it, but realistically not devastated.
• Fatal Attraction: Alex decides not to abort ex-lover Dan's baby, though not on any particular moral grounds, just that pregnancy was highly unlikely for her in the first place (she wasn't even using birth control, having assumed she was infertile), and that time is running out for her to have children.
• Fifteen & Pregnant: Played completely straight. Evie considers it "murder" and Tina herself calls it the most "wrong, disgusting and gross thing you can do". Tina therefore gives birth while just 15 (thus the film title) though her friend and friend's mother disagree, suggesting abortion.
• Flatliners: In the remake it turns out what Jamie did is abandon his pregnant girlfriend rather than going with her to get an abortion. When he later goes to ask her for forgiveness, it turns out she didn't go through with having an abortion (possibly because of him abandoning her) and they have a son that Jamie never knew about.
• In The Fly, the heroine Veronica's decision to get an abortion in the third act is given the defense that her baby might not be human — while it breaks her heart that it's coming to this, she is determined to see things through ("I'll do it myself if I have to"). However, before the procedure can take place, her lover — horrified that she would abort a child that might be the last remnant of his waning humanity — kidnaps her and pleads with her to reconsider; when she refuses to do so, he attempts to genetically fuse himself with her and the unborn child to create "the ultimate family". Four epilogues were shot to resolve this plot point, with only one depicting her deciding to keep the child, but none survived the test screening process, accidentally leaving a Sequel Hook. The Fly II thus opens with the reveal that she was convinced to have the child by the Big Bad; she suffers Death by Childbirth and indeed the child isn't fully human, but he gets better.
• In Fools Rush In, the father actually implies he would prefer an abortion (that is as long as the mother is choosing it, so he doesn't have to take any moral responsibility for the decision). The mother responds that she is going to keep the baby. While not explicitly justified, the fact that the mother is a devout Catholic probably justifies the "no abortion" aspect of the movie.
• For Colored Girls: Reluctantly Nyla, after finding out she's pregnant, gets a back-alley abortion and is left traumatized after the event (especially since she was left bleeding). Her mother Alice though tells her that what's in her womb "had to be destroyed". Tangie had one as well, given that she tells her sister where to find said abortionist, Rose, and it was confirmed later that Alice took her to a back-alley abortionist.
• For Keeps has Darcy and Stan, high school seniors, facing a Teen Pregnancy. Their parents suggest abortion and adoption respectively, and Darcy even plans for an abortion, but she ultimately decides against it.
• Freshman Year: CJ and his family, being conservative Christians, oppose abortion (which is not at all surprising). Marcella does consider it, but ultimately decides to have the baby. CJ related to her that when a doctor detected he might have birth defects, he'd advised his mom to abort too (of course she didn't).
• In Garage Days, Kate gets pregnant by Joe, decides to have an abortion, and then changes her mind. However, it's not clear how set she was on the abortion to begin with (the characters were in a bad patch.)
• Averted in The Godfather Part II. Kay supposedly aborts her second son because she knows the kid is just gonna grow up to be a mafioso like all the other men in the family. This is what leads to her and Michael's final split when he finds out that she had the abortion. It's never really made clear whether we're supposed to root for her or not, which is just as it should be. There is also a possibility Kay was lying to Michael about the abortion and really did just have a miscarriage.
• An example of only thoroughly messed-up girls getting abortions: in the Dutch movie Godforsaken, the psychotic gangster's girlfriend finds out that she's pregnant and then does her own dirty work with a clothes hanger.
• Discussed, but averted, in Grandma. Sage's plan is to have an abortion because she's still in high school, and she knows she wouldn't be able to make it into college while raising a child. At one point in the film, she agonizes over whether it's the right decision, whether it makes her a bad person, and if it might lead her to go to Hell, but Elle convinces her to stay the course. At the clinic, she goes in to talk to the counselor on her own, and it initially seems ambiguous as to whether she went through with it, but it's then made clear that she did.
• In High Fidelity, before the story takes place, Laura gets an abortion when Rob gets her pregnant, keeping it a secret from him until a long time later. On one hand, he finds out when he mentions having kids and she starts crying, indicating that she's not happy about it; on the other hand, Rob admits that it was probably the right decision.
• The film version of I Don't Know How She Does It has an assistant-who's single, working all hours at her job, and has sworn not to have kids-considering an abortion when she gets pregnant from a one-night stand. Kate simply plants her hands on her shoulders and tells her, "You are going to have this baby." She agrees.
• Averted by If These Walls Could Talk in two of its three stories, all surrounding abortion. In the first, the woman gets one in the 1950s from a back-alley doctor and it goes badly wrong, with her fate left uncertain. The second, set shortly after Roe vs. Wade in the 1970s, ends with a house wife in her forties who already has children unexpectedly getting pregnant, considering abortion but ultimately not having one. The third, set in the then-current era of the 1990s, has a college student have an abortion in spite of her friend counseling against it, running a gauntlet of pro-life activists at the clinic and having the doctor shot during the middle of the operation when a man sneaks in. Despite the case where abortion was chosen against, neither of the women that had abortions is portrayed as bad-the film is quite clearly on the pro-choice side of the issue.
• Into the Forest: After Eva gets pregnant due to rape, though her sister Neil suggests an abortion, and even looks up how to induce one in a medical book she has, Eva decides against doing so, saying she doesn't want to lose anything else. She also had suffered a miscarriage in the past, and thus wants to have a child. In the end Nell helps her give birth and they intend to raise the baby together.
• In Juno, the main character goes to an abortion clinic but doesn't like the place when she gets there. After a protester tells her that fetuses have fingernails (which isn't actually true at that stage in the pregnancy, in case you were wondering), she decides she'll be putting her baby up for adoption. Her exact reason for deciding against abortion isn't specified, and is pretty much left up to the imagination of the viewer. The slightly more obvious meta-reason she didn't get one is that if she got the abortion, there'd be no plot, and much of the movie can be considered a love-song to adoption and non-biological parents (particularly adoptive and stepmothers). Some have taken the film as having an anti-abortion message; Diablo Cody has denied this and expressed regret for not making clearer Juno's reason for not getting an abortion, which was simply that she decided she didn't want to.
• In Knocked Up, the female lead's sister mentions the possibility of abortion, but she decides to bring the baby to term. This was a bone of contention for many critics of the film, who pointed out that a) the father was a schlub she had no previous history with and appeared to be a less-than-suitable father figure b) she had no apparent religious convictions or prestated beliefs as to why she might keep the baby, c) she was an anchor at E! who was rather devoted to climbing the corporate ladder and d) the sister who suggested it and Jonah Hill were portrayed very unsympathetically, and the avoidance of the actual word "abortion"-Hill's character refers to it as a "shmushmortion." One unstated but possible reason she decided not to get one is because of the potential fallout of the public finding out she had an abortion, though the film never goes into this.
• Lady Bird: A pro-life speaker is brought to the school and tries convincing the students about this with a story of her own mother who decided against getting an abortion. Lady Bird is not convinced by this, and tells the woman so quite rudely, resulting in her suspension.
• Averted in The Last American Virgin. Smooth Operator Rick gets titular good-girl Karen pregnant then dumps her. Protagonist Gary sells his stereo and takes heat from Nurse Rached to get Karen an abortion, and that's all that's heard regarding pregnancy and procedure. This film is based on the Israeli film Eskimo Limon which features the same pregnancy-abortion plot point. Although the ending shows that the 'good' part is rather debatable.
• The 1943 French film Le corbeau, made in occupied France and often celebrated for its Take That! against the Vichy collaborators, features a hero who is an atheist and abortion doctor who is sick and tired of poor women dying in back-alley abortions and so provides quality methods with a higher life retention rate.
• The Life Before Her Eyes: She gets the abortion, but the film treats it as a very bad decision with lasting consequences.
• Listen to Me: All the nuances are explored with the debate on abortion, and the protagonists argue against it. Monica however, who reveals she actually had an abortion, is treated sympathetically. None of the pro-life arguments made ever actually say women that had abortions were bad either.
• Look Both Ways (2022): The film follows two worlds: one where Natalie isn't pregnant, and the other one where she is and keeps the baby. Abortion is never brought up as an option in the latter reality.
• In Look Who's Talking, Molly gets pregnant as a result of her relationship with a married man. When she tells him about the baby, she makes it abundantly clear that despite the unfavorable circumstances, "This baby is you and me and I'm not having an abortion." He quickly assures her that he doesn't want her to.
• Love Is Not Perfect: Elena gets accidentally pregnant and has no desire for motherhood. Her boyfriend Marco, the father, pleads with her to have the baby. She does, and leaves their daughter Claudia with him after she's born.
• In Love, Rosie, the titular character gets accidentally pregnant, but doesn't have an abortion, explained as a vestige of her Catholic upbringing, even though she's not a believer herself.
• In Love with the Proper Stranger, Rocky helps Angie by scheduling and paying for an appointment with a Back-Alley Doctor, but when they both see the conditions of the "office", they flee in horror.
• A pretty disturbing example comes from the Christian pro-life movie Loving The Bad Man when our protagonist is impregnated from a brutal rape. Because of religious beliefs, she rejects the idea of terminating the pregnancy despite her family's insistence, but in fact meets up with her rapist who's in prison, makes friends with him and wants him to be involved in their child's life.
• In Manny And Lo, the delinquent teen figures she's just getting fat from her diet of convenience store junk food. When she finally goes into the clinic to "get it done," the doctor informs her she's too far along to get an abortion. Solution? Kidnap a baby store clerk.
• Miss Meadows: Miss Meadows seems to be contemplating abortion after learning she's pregnant, since she asks her doctor if it's wrong bringing a child into such a bad world. The doctor however says so long as she gives her child love, it will be fine, and Miss Meadows chooses to keep her baby. It helps that she adores children in general already.
• Mr. Brooks: Strangely enough considering that he's a serial killer, Mr. Brooks objects when his pregnant daughter says she may have an abortion, although he backs down she fires back that it's her decision, softening it to how a grandchild would be a great gift to her mother and him. We don't learn what she decided before the film ends.
• Averted in the horror film Pin. Leon's sister, Ursula, discovers that she's pregnant as a result of constantly having unprotected sex. She immediately chooses to have an abortion, which is successful. Afterward, she cleans up her life and the incident is never mentioned again.
• Averted in Never Rarely Sometimes Always. The film is all about Autumn's journey to receive a safe and legal abortion, and the film passes no judgment on her for this.
• A New York Christmas Wedding: The word isn't said, but Father Kelly advised Gabby not to have an abortion, instead giving up her baby for adoption. She followed his advice in the prime timeline but miscarried anyway. However, in the new timeline it's indicated that she had an abortion rather than do as he'd said, as Gabby still mentions getting pregnant but has no child in the present, and the conversation the two have implies she'd rejected his advice.
• Subverted in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. Protagonist Alice knows she's pregnant. Alice has magic dream powers that let her dream while awake and affect reality through dreams, but she too can be affected. Alice soon realizes that her unborn son Jacob is exercising the same powers. Freddy Krueger can ordinarily only kill people in dreams, but he can use Jacob's dreams to start murdering Alice's friends pretty much whenever he pleases. One of Alice's friends suggests that she stop Freddy by having an abortion, which would end Jacob's dreams. Alice refuses to do so because she wants to keep the baby and thinks she can destroy Freddy through other means. Alice's other means aren't entirely successful and ultimately her unborn son Jacob has to destroy Freddy in the dream world by copying Freddy's powers. The film's final scene shows Alice and her father cooing over the baby. As the camera pans back, we see girls in old-fashioned white dresses playing jump-rope and singing a song that always heralds Freddy's reappearance in a Nightmare on Elm Street film.
• Nocturnal Animals: Susan possibly aborting Edward's child, and him finding out about this, is the final straw where he stops trying to repair their relationship. Given that she expresses strong dislike of the idea, it's possible Susan didn't do it.
• In the 1949 drama, Not Wanted, directed by Ida Lupino, the whole social issue of unwed mothers is addressed. Sally, the unwed mother, had no other choice available to her other than to give birth.
• The Object of My Affection: The possibility of abortion is only alluded to briefly in the beginning when Nina gets pregnant, and she quickly decides on having the baby.
• Obvious Child is a very deliberate aversion. The filmmakers were annoyed with the trope of punishing women who choose abortions, and intentionally made a film about a sympathetic protagonist who wants an abortion.
• Parenthood: When Karen tells husband Gil that she's pregnant with the couple's fourth child, she asks him point blank if he wants her to do this, given his less-than-thrilled reaction and the chaos their life is currently in—oldest son in therapy, Gil just quit his job, Karen wants to start working again, etc. They argue about it and Gil storms out without them having come to a decision, but several days later, he has accepted the pregnancy and they've decided to make it work.
• Justified in A Place in the Sun (1951). While The Hays Code prevented the mention of it and it wasn't even legal then, there is also the fact that the vulnerable and very human Alice is apprehensive about obtaining an abortion and if she did, the film would end or spin into another plot.
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire: Averted. Sophie decides to abort her pregnancy, and this is an important moment in building the friendship between the two protagonists and her. Nobody talks about it ever in a negative manner. Marianne also mentions having an abortion in the past, which is also portrayed neutrally. This explains why she knows various methods for inducing one.
• Rob Roy: Mary apologizes to Rob after telling him she may be pregnant by her rapist, not him, saying she couldn't bring herself to kill it. He tells her it's the rapist who needs killing.
• Played straight in Saved!. It doesn't even occur to the main character to have an abortion when she falls pregnant, though this is in-character as a born-again Christian who lives in a very conservative neighborhood, attends a private religious school and was previously shown at pro-life protests. The subject of abortion is only brought up twice, and never actually named, both times by the rebellious Cassandra; only once to Mary's face, and by then, it's "too late."
• Save the Date (2012): Sarah gets pregnant by Jonathan accidentally. At first she does consider abortion, but then soon reconsiders when Beth offers to support her whatever decision she's made. The end implies she is just about to inform Jonathan.
• 1979 Russian film School Waltz: Abortions weren't as stigmatized in the Soviet Union as they are in some quarters of the United States, and Zolya's mother urges her to get one so as not to be burdened by single motherhood. But after making the appointment and going to the hospital and even laying down on a bed to await her turn, Zolya changes her mind and hurriedly leaves.
• Discussed in Se7en. Tracy, the wife of one of the main characters, contacts her husband's partner to discuss her pregnancy. She isn't sure she wants to have a child given the environment of the city where they live. Somerset tell her about a previous relationship in which he pressured his partner into having an abortion and later regretted it. He does not actively try to dissuade her, though. Becomes a moot point when she is killed before deciding what to do about the pregnancy.
• Sound of the Mountain:
  • Played straight in the case of Kinuko, Shuichi's mistress, a war widow who insists on keeping Shuichi's baby because otherwise she might never have one.
  • But averted in the case of Shuichi's wife Kikuko, who sees what an ass her husband is and how unhappy Fumiko is, and aborts her pregnancy.
• Stealing Heaven: The older woman who realizes Héloïse is pregnant says if she used the rennet of a hare, this could have prevented it and might even still work, clearly implying abortion. Héloïse barely listens to her though, delighted that she's pregnant with Abelard's child.
• Sugar & Spice: Diane, a teenager, gets pregnant accidentally. Kansas suggests an abortion, but Hannah is horrified by the idea and says it's murder, urging her not to. Diane is set on having the baby already though before either of them says anything.
• The Survivalist: Averted. When Milja becomes pregnant, she attempts to induce abortion with a copper rod, but it fails. She isn't portrayed as bad for this (and did it at her mother's advice), especially given the crapsack world they find themselves in. However, later she's accepted her situation. The movie ends with her discussing what to name the baby.
• Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl: Beth initially told Adele she's pregnant and what she'll name the baby if it's a girl. However, later she's had an abortion. This is treated neutrally.
• Switch (1991): Amanda considered having an abortion, she was even in the doctor's office for it, but then concluded that God might want her to have a baby.
• Too Soon to Love is a Type 3. When Cathy and Jim are shopping around for an abortionist, they learn the address of a sketchy Back-Alley Doctor who works in the red light district, up a narrow staircase in a dirty, badly-maintained building that can be accessed via a literal back alley. Cathy chickens out when she sees the tear-streaked face of one of the abortionist's patients. Later, she finds a real doctor who will give her an abortion for $500. Jim steals the $370 they need, but Cathy refuses to spend stolen money.
• The Tribe: Anya is a prostitute who gets pregnant from her relationship with Sergey. Even so, her abortion was portrayed as more neutral than anything. Why she goes to a back-alley practitioner instead of a real physician isn't clear though-perhaps so her parents won't find out?
• Turkey Shoot: Inverted. Thatcher tells the prisoners the administration accepts prisoners having sex, but not getting pregnant. Any prisoner who does will undergo a forced abortion, then be sterilized. In the man's case, they would be castrated.
• Averted in Unpregnant. The main character, Veronica, is a high school senior who plans to attend an Ivy League college and when she finds that she's pregnant, she decides to get an abortion. The movie makes it clear that she's not a bad person for not being ready to have a child at her age and the other characters, including her mother and her boyfriend (who was willing to marry her after learning of the pregnancy), don't hold her decision against her (besides a pair of Christian fundamentalists she meets who try to force her to carry it to term).
• Betty from Unwed Mother goes to a drunken Back-Alley Doctor, but in the end can't go through with it, saying, "It's not mine to kill." This turns out to be a wise decision, since she later finds out that the doctor was arrested after one of his patients died.
• Averted with Vera Drake, which is about a kind, loving 1950 London housewife who secretly performs illegal abortions. The film is entirely sympathetic toward Vera and presents multiple perspectives on the issue, both with realistic patients (including a careless floozy, an exhausted housewife who couldn't afford to raise another child, and a victim of date rape) and with her family when they find out the truth-her husband vows to stay by her side for better or worse, her son believes it's "killing innocent babies," and her daughter's fiancé thinks it's an act of mercy compared to bringing a child who can't be properly cared for into the world.
• Waves: Tyler takes Alexis to have an abortion when he gets her pregnant. After they leave the clinic, she tells him she'd decided against it, which enrages Tyler. He tries persuading her otherwise, saying that high school seniors shouldn't be worrying about raising a child, which frustrates her greatly as she believes he's refusing to understand her perspective on the situation. The fallout from this ultimately leads to her accidental death.
• A Wedding (1978): Zigzagged. When it turns out that Buffy is pregnant, most of her family wants her to have an abortion. However, Dr. Meecham says that she's too far along in the pregnancy for an abortion to be safe. Additionally, the need for an abortion becomes less urgent when it turns out that her new brother-in-law probably isn't the baby's father after all. Buffy's mental illness makes it unclear what she thinks of the whole thing.
• What to Expect When You're Expecting: Rosie briefly brings up abortion since she's accidentally pregnant and unhappy with the fact, but then decides against it. She then has a miscarriage later, by which time she's grown to like being pregnant, and is quite devastated (though hiding it). Rosie thinks it's her fault since she didn't want the baby at first.
• This is the message of Where Are My Children?, likely the first film ever involving abortion, released 1916. It revolves around a prosecutor who, after securing a conviction against a doctor for performing a botched abortion, discovers his wife was one of the man's clients, along with several of her friends. All of them got abortions because having children interferes with their social life. When he confronts his wife, she is remorseful, and they are then shown as a sad, lonely childless couple. On the other hand, it favors contraception, then also illegal and very controversial. Abortions at the time were very dangerous given the illegal conditions which existed, although the film portrays them as inherently psychologically damaging too (which is not the case, however no one likely knew this at the time). The danger is shown with another woman that Another character who gets an abortion dies from going to a Back-Alley Doctor. It was banned in Pennsylvania for being "indecent".
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Subverted. It is implied that sweet, fragile Honey secretly aborts all her pregnancies because she doesn't want to have children.
• Played straight in Wish You Were Here (1987). When Lynda must come to a decision about whether to terminate, or to go through with the pregnancy and give the baby up for adoption, Lynda chooses to have the baby and raises him as her own.
• Women Is Losers: Celina and Marty both get pregnant, deciding to go have illegal abortions (this is in 1967) from a dentist who's provided them. Both are treated sympathetically, while Celina's concerned only by the fact it might not be safe. She even talks right to the viewer about it, saying this isn't the easy way out but it's actually a very difficult choice and she'd been denied an informed decision ahead of time by her strict Catholic upbringing. Marty dies when the dentist botches the abortion, and asks Celina if God will forgive her beforehand. Celina assures her there's nothing to forgive. She goes through with her pregnancy as a result of the risk. On hearing when Roe vs. Wade is announced, Celina reacts with joy.
• Z.P.G.: Inverted according to the law of the society in the film, which mandates abortion since reproduction is banned. The central plot comes up when the female protagonist Carole fails to have one and secretly gives birth to a child, making her go on the run with her husband Russ.

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