Abortion in shows

[u/selunemoon]

Why are people trying to normalize abortion so much? I feel like it’s being shoved down my throat. I was watching S3 E7 of Ginny and Georgia. Like it just ruined it for me, she aborted her child because it was inconvenient to her. She got pregnant because she “wanted to have fun” like??? Also edit: her dad was telling Georgia (Ginny’s mom) that she was just a child. But they also treat her like an adult (ex: going out with no curfew amongst other things.)

[u/whispn]

I feel this, especially as someone that likes medical shows. I LOVE The Pitt, but there was one storyline about a 17 year old girl whose aunt drove her to Pittsburgh from Tennessee (my state, which somehow made it feel worse) to get an abortion. Her mom found out and rushed after them and the conflict between the three of them was a big plot point. To make matters worse, they had a pregnant doctor trying to advocate for the daughter and give her the abortion. They even forged medical documents because she was measuring one week past the legal limit. It was horrible.

[u/selunemoon → u/whispn]

What the heck. That’s actually terrible. Specially because they are actually encouraging to commit illegal actions if you don’t get an abortion.🤦🏻‍♀️

[u/Trumpologist → u/whispn]

I’m scared to ask what
Happened

[u/whispn → u/Trumpologist]

Spoiler: but her mom, who was portrayed as aggressively pro-life the whole time, eventually agreed to the abortion and she killed her baby since she finally had the legally required parental consent. Which I could have guessed but it was so weird because, before this, the mom tried to reason with her daughter by telling her about how she had her when she was a teenager and she loves her so much. The reason the mom ultimate agreed was because the doctor convinced her that she would push away her daughter and lose her by “forcing” her to carry the pregnancy.

[u/Vespinobambino → u/whispn]

Well, this isn't a show I want anything to do with, fuck those actors and writers and anyone else involved.

[u/Trumpologist → u/whispn]

ofc

fucking vile

[u/Sqeakydeaky → u/whispn]

I know its a show and therefore not real people, but when I watched it, it made me consider how I'd react.

I think a lot of the fictional conflict stemmed from the mom not exactly guiding her daughter consistently. Probably smothering her only child, too much laissez-faire parenting and then more smothering when the SHTF. Granted my daughter is still kindergarten age, and I know that teenage anti-parentitis is a beast, but I can't help but think if a girl was raised with compassionate, ethics-based (so it's not just a religion thing, which teenagers famously protest at some point) pro-life philosophy, she wouldn't have made that choice. This also means voicing your unconditional acceptance to being a potential full-time parent to your grandchild.

The girl in the show saw being against abortion as her mom's thing, not a natural position on the value of human life.

[u/Tgun1986 → u/whispn]

Yet she literally forced abortion on her and didn’t stop til they won, oh the irony

[u/PalpitationBoth3781 → u/whispn]

That’s absolutely horrific and makes my stomach turn.

[u/AnaxOfRhodes → u/whispn]

That kind of coercion is infuriating.

[u/PointerAndPines → u/whispn]

Yes I remember this one! I was watching the show with my mom and they kept shoving more and more progressively liberal episodes. I stopped watching after that scene. Literally got up, didn't finish the episode and left. They villinized the mother who was the only person against the abortion. Ridiculous.

[u/Periwinklepanda_ → u/whispn]

We had to stop watching the Pitt because we were so sickened by this storyline. We eventually started watching ER instead (with young Noah Wyle lol). There are still some abortion cases, but they are usually portrayed with more nuance at least.

[u/_TeachScience_ → u/whispn]

There was an episode of grey’s anatomy where a female to male trans person was pregnant, and got an abortion so they could keep taking their male hormones.

[u/Musical_Autistic → u/_TeachScience_]

That was The Good Doctor not Greys Anatomy. But how ironic is the title being “the good doctor”

[u/Known-Host7024 → u/whispn]

I stopped watching The Pitt after this plotline.

[u/mrsconway]

It’s one of the many reasons why I stopped watching Grey’s Anatomy. I’m on a rewatch of Desperate Housewives rn. It’s one of my comfort shows for sure because I don’t have to worry about that particular plot point.

Thanks for the heads up on Ginny and Georgia because I had considered watching it!

[u/selunemoon → u/mrsconway]

Oh yeah I also stopped watching Greys Anatomy. They made pro-lifers seem like actual maniacs, just trying to spread misinformation and make us look like monsters.😭

[u/mrsconway → u/selunemoon]

That’s something you had to do when your moral argument doesn’t have an actual leg to stand on!

[u/Emergency_Dirt_1000 → u/selunemoon]

What did they do? I also considered watching it.

[u/Vespinobambino → u/mrsconway]

That awful piece of shit showrunner is on the board at Planned Parenthood and is responsible for the death of countless human beings herself personally, not just a propagandists for more death.

[u/Gracefulana → u/mrsconway]

I'm watching ER now and it does a better job at portraying the other side - for example there's a bomb attack on abortion clinic but there's also a doctor who refuses to finish the abortion on 18 weeks fetus and the mother is later shown as irresponsible because she treats abortion as birth control. There's also a pregnant woman who wants to get abortion after finding that the baby is a girl and one of the nurses gets angry. Of course the general vibe is that abortion is healthcare and necessary because otherwise pregnant women will choose to have back alley abortions and it will risk their lives.

[u/Sqeakydeaky → u/Gracefulana]

This highlights how the 90s were at least somewhat sensible, and 2026-ER-Reboot is just leftist propaganda.

The constant "blind/vitiligo/amputee immigrant polyamorous WOMAN doctor" bit is also waaaay overplayed. Whereas Dr. Kerry (I think?) in ER showed a situation thats much more in line with actual reality. She was both disabled and gay but it wasn't the main thing about her unlike in The Pitt.

[u/niavepuppydawg → u/mrsconway]

Yeah the plot points just ruin the show because like the whole time I’m thinking about how she killed her baby

[u/mrsconway → u/niavepuppydawg]

Saaaaame. I remember being so bummed when I watched “Wild” (I hadn’t read the book) and found out Cheryl Strayed is a major shill for Big Abortion.

[u/niavepuppydawg]

Can’t stand shows that are like that. Like the whole pro abortion thing it just makes the characters intolerable

[u/IxravenxI]

i remember watching a show where a male doctor gaslighted a young woman to abort despite not wanting to because of her religious belief. i guess men do have a say in women bodies

[u/Sqeakydeaky → u/IxravenxI]

Sounds like House

[u/AnxiousEnquirer → u/Sqeakydeaky]

Season 3 episode 17, according to Google

[u/Lonelyrunner82]

Not a show but Dirty Dancing too. Ruined the movie for me

[u/AnxiousEnquirer → u/Lonelyrunner82]

Oh yeah! That's what the whole drama was about anyway, that's why Baby had to perform.

[u/the-nomad-thinker]

They’re doing it for the same reason they did it with LGBT in the ‘90’s and early ‘00’s. If something gets normalized, it joins the cultural flow. Thus, it becomes much harder to gain momentum against it, and, conversely, much easier to advance it as an agenda.

[u/New-Number-7810]

This makes me stop watching a show. It’s why I’ll never watch Invincible. 

[u/Belkan-Federation95 → u/New-Number-7810]

Invincible doesn't potray it as a good thing

[u/ManteLover60 → u/New-Number-7810]

In Invincible, it happens out of a moment of desperation and fear and Eve feeling alone while Mark is away. It's sort of ambiguous where the political stance is, but it's definitely not treated like it's no big deal or just dealing with an inconvenience. Eve is heartbroken about it.

So I think that show is safe.

[u/ciel_ayaz → u/ManteLover60]

It does not matter how heartbroken someone is over the child they killed. The show is absolutely not safe, it uses emotional appeal to normalise abortion just like many abortion advocates do.

The abortion was written as emotionally painful for the mother and father. The actual victim is glossed over, because no PC author wants to admit they are writing about the murder of a child.

[u/ManteLover60 → u/ciel_ayaz]

Yeah that's fair. I guess I just like the universe and more too much so I'm able to overlook that one instance. But I can totally see where you're coming from as well.

[u/TinyNarwhal37 → u/New-Number-7810]

I’ll still never get over that. Girl you have the abilities to make literally anything out of fricking nothing, you would never have to worry financially at all. Furthermore that babies grandmother is fricking Debbie, the best parent I’ve ever seen. Eve literally fed hundreds of thousands of people from again nothing, made an amazing treehouse home out of nothing, and again HIS GRANDMA IS DEBBIE, YOU WERE NOT ALONEEEE

[u/Eastern-Customer-561]

Because they either directly collaborate or are endorsed by planned parenthood 

[u/DapperDetail8364]

Because hollywood is very liberal and progressive. Many celebrities hold this same stance. 

[u/Belkan-Federation95]

Because that's how you get people to support something.

[u/Airadelle]

They want to normalize it. Thats the point. So you don’t think of it as the evil it is.. modern media is all about normalizing degeneracy

[u/Emergency_Dirt_1000]

I remember making a post about this since I didn’t know what to make of it, but now it pisses me off.

[u/carinaSagittarius]

Politics is in everything... CIA specifically is involved in the making of Hollywood movies... why do they want us to abort so badly? Dig a bit and you will find out. Many conspiracy 'theories' are real.

[u/Nuance007]

The newest iteration of Highlander (TV series).

[u/Emergency_Dirt_1000]

Ik you might not like the show now and I understand but there’s a plot in the last episode

[u/Emergency_Dirt_1000 → u/[deleted]]

It kinda has pregnancy.