Dilan Esper made an interesting point in the thread on Knocked Up. "The problem isn't that "Knocked Up" doesn't present the "choice" well," he wrote. "It's that there's no movies out there-- at all-- in which a lead character has an abortion and that choice turns out to be absolutely right. And that's despite the fact that in real life, most abortions DO turn out to be the right choice, whereas many choices to have a child-- especially when said child is the product of a one-night stand with an iffy male-- turn out to be very tragic ones."
Hederman replies, "Not sure how anyone could overlook one of the seminal movies for Gen X. Fast Times, Say Anything, 16 candles, Fast Time at Ridgemont High. All staples of the Exers and Stacy's abortion was a huge plotpt in FTRH." Amanda mentions High Fidelity, where we learn that Laura had an abortion at some point in the past. Other examples?
