What they realize is: psychologically audiences cannot see a character as fun and likable if she has an abortion.
They may see her as an object of pity and not scorn, they may agree with her "choice" - but she can only be believable as a tragic figure.
99% of abortions occur because the mother just does not feel like dealing with the social and financial complications the child will cause.
That's fundamentally repulsive, but Americans mask that disgusting reality by reassuring themselves that most abortions are because of rape or incest or situations that would plunge mother and child into Third World poverty.
So in order to have a movie script in which a major character has an abortion for reasons that do not immediately make the audience disgusted with her, she has to be a victim of rape or incest or someone whose financial situation is irremediably horrible.
And audiences do not go to Hollywood movies to be depressed. They want to walk out amused or inspired or warmed.
This article also repeats the idiotic mistake of grouping a bunch of movies that who’s production had nothing to do with each other’s under a generic ‘Hollywood’ ideological monolith who’s existence is dubious to begin with.
The article is right. Moviegoers identify with the difficult, but heroic choices the characters make. There is no planet on which your 99% are making an herioc choice.
But some people are, and some of those people are apparently in Hollywood.
Let's not forget that the laws of this country are not "pro choice" but very much pro abortion.
If I didn't think abortion was immoral I would still oppose Roe simply because it is an insult to the Constitution.
Of course, if I thought abortion was moral, or if I though abortion might be a necessary solution to a problem I might one day find myself facing due to other behavior I felt was not immoral -- despite traditionally being considered so -- I would fight tooth and nail to keep it.
Another thing to ask: why would a "small government" Republican not be wildly opposed to funding agencies involved in the promotion of abortion even if they should think the act should be legal?