Abortion is always a tragedy. No Hollywood treatment can cover that up

Published July 20, 2021 1:16pm ET



Apparently, more on-screen women with children should be getting abortions. At least, that’s the argument in a recent Marie Claire piece, which says this lack of “representation” comes at “the detriment of mothers … and the abortion providers who care for them.”

The article is right about a couple of things. First, a majority of on-screen abortion storylines seem to involve the most sympathetic cases possible, teenagers and young women who find themselves with an unplanned, out-of-wedlock pregnancy. This isn’t because this scenario is excessively common: just 12% of abortions happen among mothers 19 years old and younger, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.

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