{"id":249696,"date":"2021-07-24T13:35:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T18:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=249696"},"modified":"2021-07-24T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T06:56:10","slug":"hollywood-parents-abortions-depictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hollywood-parents-abortions-depictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion writer: Hollywood should show ‘accurate depictions of… parents’ having abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an op-ed for Marie Claire<\/a>, long-time abortion advocate Danielle Campoamor argued that Hollywood needs to portray abortion more often \u2014 but this time, specified that it needs to feature abortion more often, especially those sought by parents who have other children.<\/p>\n

Hollywood, Campoamor complains, most often features abortion on women who tick certain boxes. They’re young, wealthy, white, and single, and simply don’t feel like being a parent. But these are rarely the women who undergo abortions, she said. “[A]ccurate depictions of the most common abortion patients, parents, is still severely lacking \u2014 to the detriment of mothers like Winston and the abortion providers who care for them,” she said, adding that the number of storylines featuring abortion are decreasing.<\/p>\n

“In 2020, of the characters who did have abortions on film, 73 percent were white, one-third were teenagers, and not a single one was a parent,” Campoamor said. “In television, only one abortion ‘storyline’ featured someone who was a parent at the time of their abortion \u2014 and it wasn\u2019t even a ‘character’ but rather an actual person featured in the MTV reality show, Teen Mom 2<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

What’s missing in all of this is the fact that when a woman is pregnant, she is already a parent; she has conceived offspring<\/em>. If she chooses to abort her child, she is no less of a parent. She is simply now the mother of an aborted child.<\/p>\n