The Cider House Rules. I was so pleased when Irving won an Oscar for adapting his book into the screenplay because it's really a pro-choice story in so many ways--and a character who is anti-abortion during most of the film is even converted to believing in the necessity of its being available and safe for women who've make that choice (plus he agrees to help women who've made this choice).
Beyond that, I know I've recently seen/read another place where it was treated positively but I'm drawing a blank right now on the name. It was a girl in college who was faced with the decision and her choosing not to have the baby was presented positively. Now if only I didn't have such a poor excuse for a memory!
And then there's Revolutionary Road, which ends up being more pro-choice than you think it's going to be. Actually, folks on both side of the fence could each end up thinking the film is taking their side. It all depends on how you view the events that precipitate the climax of the film. But I got a definite pro-choice vibe from it.
Interestingly enough, in her very first novel, published in the late 1940s, Madeleine L'Engle wrote about a teenaged girl whose stepmother helped her to get an abortion. And the fact that she got an abortion was presented as a good thing. (I think she was only 15.) Plus it really helped the daughter to begin to accept her stepmother. That was about 25 years before Roe v. Wade! So my memory isn't completely lame, because I do remember the L'Engle book (A Soft Rain, probably available used on Powell's).
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Date: 2011-09-02 01:19 am (UTC)Beyond that, I know I've recently seen/read another place where it was treated positively but I'm drawing a blank right now on the name. It was a girl in college who was faced with the decision and her choosing not to have the baby was presented positively. Now if only I didn't have such a poor excuse for a memory!
And then there's Revolutionary Road, which ends up being more pro-choice than you think it's going to be. Actually, folks on both side of the fence could each end up thinking the film is taking their side. It all depends on how you view the events that precipitate the climax of the film. But I got a definite pro-choice vibe from it.
Interestingly enough, in her very first novel, published in the late 1940s, Madeleine L'Engle wrote about a teenaged girl whose stepmother helped her to get an abortion. And the fact that she got an abortion was presented as a good thing. (I think she was only 15.) Plus it really helped the daughter to begin to accept her stepmother. That was about 25 years before Roe v. Wade! So my memory isn't completely lame, because I do remember the L'Engle book (A Soft Rain, probably available used on Powell's).