The Glade 4.0

As I know there is no way to stop this from our usual abortion debate, I had a slightly different question before we go down the same old route.

Has anyone seen abortion depicted in TV (cable/regular), or movies? If so how was it done? Tastefully? Realistically? This question comes from a commentator stating that it has never been portrayed. I can remember South park dancing around the edges of it once with a stem cell episode. I think Law & Order has done more episodes on violence at abortion clinics than has actually happened.

So before we being the traditional back and forth, do you remember if it has been "shown".

_________________
"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Define "depicted" (like, the act itself, or the whole pre-act decision and aftermath, or what?), but here are some movies off the top of my head that focus on it pretty heavily:

Vera Drake - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_drake

The Cider House Rules - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cider_ ... ules_(film)

Citizen Ruth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Ruth

Edit: a couple more.

If These Walls Could Talk - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_These_Walls_Could_Talk

October Baby - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Baby

Any TV references? As for depicted I am not sure, it just seemed to be a taboo subject for "entertainment". And I could not really remember anything really taking it on.

_________________
"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

"If These Walls Could Talk" was a TV movie. It's not really something that crops up in serial mediums a whole lot, though. The Buffy Season 9 comic sees Buffy get pregnant and plan to have an abortion, though I stopped following it in Season 8, so I'm not sure how that turned out.

Edit: Amusingly here's a Fox News article decrying how very prevalent abortions are in prime time. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/20 ... elevision/

I had forgotten about the famous "Maude" storyline, though.

Happy Endings the movie covers it too. Not sure if the TV version does or not.

_________________

Scrubs has an episode where JD knocks up Kim (Elizabeth Banks). They deliberated over abortion or keeping the baby via a list of pros and cons. That they were considering terminating a life was never part of the dialogue nor was it hinted at by other characters. It was clear they didn't consider the fetus life. They decided to have the child when Turk's second child was born and they saw the excitement in his eyes.

_________________
The Dude abides.

It's not a TV show/movie or film, but the play Keely & Du is about a pregnant woman kidnapped by an anti-abortion group in order to force her to have the baby, and her interactions with her caretaker there.

_________________
When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

The wacky hijinx that ensue?

_________________
Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Brick - Ben Folds is a good one.

_________________

Well it is not entertainment, but apparently Planned parenthood does have a black friday sale.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jill-stane ... ay-special

_________________
"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore