Abortion is a topic that is often avoided — especially in movies and television. This year, Jenny Slate starred in the first-ever "abortion rom-com," Obvious Child, a film that not only touches on the topic of abortion but embraces the reality of its existence and instead approaches the subject head on — a far cry from Hollywood's typical way of dealing with it. Dawn Laguens, executive vice president and CXO for Planned Parenthood, weighed in:
"Make no mistake: the abortion is central to the film — it isn't incidental, and it isn't the one serious scene sandwiched between laughs. But Obvious Child isn't only a movie about a woman who gets an abortion . . . it's just an adorable, funny movie about a woman taking charge of her own future and her own destiny — and, as part of that, making her own decisions about whether and when to have children."
