History GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion / LiveActionTV

* ''{{Series/Salem}}'': Nastily {{averted|Trope}} by Mary, who up to that point seemed ''quite'' the good girl. The slave Tituba not only uses magic to abort her child, but apparently it's sacrificed to {{the Devil}} as the beginning of Mary's [[StartOfDarkness slide into evil]]. [[spoiler: It's later revealed her child is still alive... raised by the coven.]]
* On ''Series/SantaBarbara'', Eden got pregnant by her sleazy husband Kirk after he tampered with her birth control pills. Because Eden was a "good girl", she wanted to continue carrying this baby until it was born. But she miscarried it, and she was sad about it. She said, "The baby would have been the only good thing to come out of my marriage. I really would have liked to have had it."
* On ''Series/TheSarahSilvermanProgram,'' Sarah's non-moral (not amoral), and not too bright, character, admits to having had several previous abortions, oblivious to the fact that this is a hot topic, and people may judge her for this. Later, she makes friends with a group of fundamentalist Christian women she meets at a clinic, and they're very nice to her, even though she has had abortions, because they believe she regrets them, and will be a mouthpiece for their cause, talking about how traumatic the experience was. It takes a while for this to dawn on Sarah, who at one point says that not only does she not regret having abortions, but doesn't think she's done having them. Her new "friends" drop her like a hot potato, but she's not too upset, because she's pretty happy-go-lucky. By the end of the episode [[spoiler: she's having another abortion]].

* ''Series/Accused2023'': Clara has to leave Texas for her abortion because in Texas it's banned. Jack drives her to New Mexico for abortion pills at a clinic there. Britney, his fiancée, reveals her mother was pregnant while a teenager with her and almost had an abortion before being talked out of this by a stranger. She's against abortion and not at all happy with him aiding Clara as a result. The narrative though is very sympathetic to Clara, particularly since [[spoiler:she's pregnant [[ChildByRape due to rape]] and was so distraught she'd nearly killed herself over the fact]].

* ''Series/{{Catastrophe}}'': Several characters, including Sharon, bring up the option of abortion. Yet she decides not to for no clear reason, despite her being forty one and only knowing the father briefly (the conception happened during a week of casual sex).
* Deconstructed in ''Series/{{Charite}}''. End of the 19th century in Berlin, abortions are doable but illegal, and when nurse Stine brings her teenaged cousin Marie, who has been knocked up by a tenant, to the hospital, she can't find anyone willing to perform the procedure because no one wants to lose their license. Marie, who has been explicitly warned by Stine not to go to some back-alley quack, is too frightened to go home to her penniless family with yet another mooth to feed and [[DrivenToSuicide attempts to kill herself]].
* ''Series/ChicagoPD''. The team rescues a young woman who has been kidnapped and held prisoner for several months. She's horrified to learn that she's pregnant, outright declaring, "I can't have his baby!", but by the episode's conclusion, has decided to keep it, now saying "I want something good to come out of this."

** One third season episode involved a high school couple who decide not to get an abortion after seeing photos given to them by a militantly pro-life (and hypocritical) nurse. It ruins both their lives ({{anvilicious}}, but on the other side).
** The trope is played straight in "The Good-Bye Room", although Hillary indicates that her desire not to abort is less about concerns over her virtue and more about a (justified) fear of injury or death from the procedure, as this is another episode that takes place when abortion was not yet legal.

--> '''Pablo:''' Hey, did you get my message?
--> '''Maria:''' I did.
--> '''Pablo:''' So?
--> '''Maria:''' It's not your decision.
--> '''Pablo:''' It's my child too, Maria.
--> '''Maria:''' That changed after you bailed on me.

* One episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' resolved a case with this as its motive. When the team investigates [[VictimOfTheWeek the deaths of a pregnant barista, her coworker, a casino magnate, his bodyguard, and a college student,]] they trace the spent casings to a gun owned by a local businessman. When confronted with the evidence, he confessed that he had an affair with the barista, when she got pregnant he reassured her that he would pay for her abortion so long as nobody found out about the affair. On the night of the murders, she told him she decided she was keeping the baby and was going to sue him for child support. In a fit of rage, he shot her, when the coworker went to investigate, he killed her as well. Just then, the casino magnate came in, and as the bodyguard reached for his gun, the perp shot them both, the college student, [[HeadphonesEqualIsolation whose music drowned out the gunshots,]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses was also killed.]]

** Used for KickTheSonOfABitch purposes in the second season, when Lana is raped by [[spoiler:Dr. Thredson]] and tells him that she aborted the child. She tries and fails once, and has an opportunity for a safe backroom abortion later on in the series, but she declines, not out of any moral standing, but rather that she was tired of death. [[spoiler:Ironically, the child then grows up to be a serial killer who is ''directly'' inspired by his knowledge that his mother tried to abort him and his father was a sadistic serial killer whose victims were exclusively women. The whole season ends with Lana shooting him once they meet again forty years later, becoming not only a quite literal case of ShootTheShaggyDog but subtly supporting the notion that Lana should have gone through with the abortion if she'd wanted to prevent more deaths in the long run.]]

* ''Series/EverythingNow'': Subverted. Becca finds she's pregnant and gets abortion pills, but also wants to tell her mom, worrying she'll disapprove. Her mom is fully supportive of any decision she makes though, and Becca goes through with the abortion. Mia is also supportive after finding this out and wishes Becca had told her at the time so she could have been there with her.

* ''Series/EverythingNow'': Becca finds she's pregnant and gets abortion pills, but also wants to tell her mom, worrying she'll disapprove. Her mom is fully supportive of any decision she makes though, and Becca goes through with the abortion. Mia is also supportive after finding this out and wishes Becca had told her at the time so she could have been there with her.

* ''{{Series/Underground}}'': Clara asks Ernestine for something that'll make her miscarry, but later decides that she wants the baby. Hicks forces her to drink the potion anyway. [[spoiler:Clara wants to kill Ernestine and Hicks for causing the loss of her child.]]