Posted on 06/27/2014 9:31:46 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
At long last, a mainstream movie about a procedure that millions of American women have undergone. It also happens to be really funny.
Regardless of what one thinks about abortion, it cannot be denied that it is a common medical procedure for women. Roughly 30 percent of American women will obtain one. And yet, as Slate’s Dana Stevens has observed, abortion has virtually disappeared as a subject from popular American film and television. Dramas featuring young women routinely use convenient miscarriages as plot devices to avoid having characters make realistic choices, while movies like Knocked Up and Juno follow all the hoops their main characters go through to make sure an unplanned pregnancy comes to fruition.
In this context, Gillian Robespierre’s new movie Obvious Child is welcome indeed.
The romantic comedy stars the gifted comic actor Jenny Slate as Donna Stern, a young comedian and employee in a failing bookstore. The movie begins with Slate performing her comedy routine, after which she is dumped (in a superbly written and acted scene) by her boyfriend in the dive club’s unisex, graffiti-saturated bathroom. Eking out a threadbare existence, she decides to obtain an abortion after an unintended pregnancy.
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The movie title needs to be changed to "Dead Child"
"The romantic comedy"
Wait til they come out with "Gosnell: The Musical". It'll be "charming".
Smart women know the majority of guys who support abortion want to have consequence free sex with sluts.
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Wonderful news! The last abortion clinic in Corpus Christi,
Texas shut down today!
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