Knocked Up But Not Knocked Dead

June 20, 2007 by Jeremy.

Movie Scolded For Not Espousing Abortion

Slate is no better with reviewer Dana Stevens seeming to insist that no one in an “upper-middle-class, secular L.A” would ever imagine that abortion isn’t an option.

Allow me to briefly divagate here on the nonexistence of abortion as an option in Knocked Up. This omission smells of the focus group, and it’s a disappointment in a movie that otherwise prides itself on its unsentimental honesty about the realities of unplanned parenthood. It’s just not believable that, in Alison and Ben’s upper-middle-class, secular L.A. milieu, abortion would not be matter-of-factly discussed as a possibility in the case of a pregnancy this accidental.

Her pedantic use of “divagate” aside, Stevens is amazing because she is such a true believer in abortion that she just can’t imagine that anyone else except, perhaps, a knuckle dragging midwestern rube, would ever care about the life of a fetus… or is that an unviable clump of cells? What ever the hip phrase for infanticide is today.

And let us not leave out The New York Times, all the news that’s fit to abort, which quickly jumps on the why-not-have-an-abortion bandwagon with a review by Mireya Navarro.

The possibility of not having the baby is never discussed by either woman despite her circumstances. The word “abortion” is never uttered…Though conservatives regularly accuse Hollywood of being overly liberal on social issues, abortion rarely comes up in film.

How completely crazy is this notion? These people are upset because the movie didn’t even talk about the characters having an abortion. I haven’t seen the movie and had not really planned on it due to the nature of the film.

I’m going to overlook all of the other problems with this stance and look at one through a common sense point of view. The whole idea and comedic action of the movie is the two characters trying to work things out, since they are both so extremely different, to raise this child. Abortion wasn’t brought up because the idea of abortion is not funny. The thought of abortion is depressing.

It’s just really sad that a society had reached a level in which they are upset because the idea of killing an innocent child is not even considered by a character in a movie. It’s sad and disturbing.

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