“Since narratives are driven by conflict, in an abortion plot line writers typically used the choice itself to drive the story. This approach created high-stakes, emotionally driven drama around making the decision and framed having an abortion as the worst possible outcome of pregnancy...Meanwhile, the complex elements of real public discourse were oversimplified into a pro/anti debate, where 'reasonable' people on both sides framed the issue in moral terminologies. Abortion was shown as morally ambiguous, a necessary evil, regrettable, a consequence, a binary choice against parenthood, and/or reserved for specific examples of desperate need.”
— Tanya Melendez , How TV Lied About Abortion
Juno: Couldn't do it, Leah. It smelled like a dentist office in there. And there were these horrible magazines with water stains. And then the friggin' receptionist is trying to get me to take these condoms that look like grape suckers. And just babbling away about her friggin' boyfriend's pie balls. Oh, and then Su-Chin was was there. Yeah. And she was like, "Oh, hi, babies have fingernails." Fingernails!
Leah: That's gruesome. Do you think the baby could all like scratch your vag on the way out and then it would...?
Juno: I'm staying pregnant, Leah. [...] I've been thinking. Thinking I could like, have this baby, and give it to someone that, like, totally needs it. You know, like a woman with a bum ovary or a couple nice lesbos.
Leah: But then you're gonna get, like, huge, and your chest is gonna milktate, and you're gonna have to like...tell people that you're pregnant.
Juno: Yeah, but maybe they'll like, canonize me for being so selfless.
Leah: That's gruesome. Do you think the baby could all like scratch your vag on the way out and then it would...?
Juno: I'm staying pregnant, Leah. [...] I've been thinking. Thinking I could like, have this baby, and give it to someone that, like, totally needs it. You know, like a woman with a bum ovary or a couple nice lesbos.
Leah: But then you're gonna get, like, huge, and your chest is gonna milktate, and you're gonna have to like...tell people that you're pregnant.
Juno: Yeah, but maybe they'll like, canonize me for being so selfless.
— Juno
"Didn't have to keep it
Wouldn't put ya through it
You could have swept it from your life
But you wouldn't do it
No, you wouldn't do it"
Wouldn't put ya through it
You could have swept it from your life
But you wouldn't do it
No, you wouldn't do it"
— Paul Anka, "Having My Baby"
"We don't like to kill our unborn
We need them to grow up and fight our wars
We don't like to kill our unborn
We need them to grow up and fight our wars"
We need them to grow up and fight our wars
We don't like to kill our unborn
We need them to grow up and fight our wars"
— Marilyn Manson, "We're from America"
[Peter is watching Murder, She Wrote]
Jessica Fletcher: Charles Montrose, after all these years.
Charles Montrose: Jessica Fletcher, why I haven't seen you since you've had the, the uh..
Jessica Fletcher: You can say it Charles, I'm not ashamed. Abortion.
Peter: Aha! So she's the murderer.
"Papa don't preach I'm in trouble deep
Papa don't preach, I've been losing sleep
But I made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby
I'm gonna keep my baby"
Papa don't preach, I've been losing sleep
But I made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby
I'm gonna keep my baby"
— Madonna, "Papa Don't Preach"
Beatrice: [dryly] Here's your omelet. [throws the plate onto the table] I'm sorry it's not as good as the omelets your secretary makes, but then you're not married to your secretary, are you?
Butterscotch: [bitterly] Well, maybe if my secretary also refused to get an abortion, I would be.
Young BoJack: Mommy, can I have an omelet?
Beatrice: You're the birthday boy.
Butterscotch: [bitterly] Well, maybe if my secretary also refused to get an abortion, I would be.
Young BoJack: Mommy, can I have an omelet?
Beatrice: You're the birthday boy.
