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* The now-infamous ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' storyline of the Franchise/SpiderMan canon also included [[spoiler: Mary Jane's pregnancy getting aborted as part of the big magic RetCon.]] For irony's sake, Creator/JoeQuesada didn't want Spidey and MJ getting divorced because it might be seen as objectionable... so instead, he whipped up a storyline where a superhero makes a DealWithTheDevil and gets a free abortion in the process.

* Inadvertently possible in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', thanks to the Tome of Battle. Though its magical qualities are [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower arguable]], one of the powers it introduces lets you end any ongoing effect currently effecting your character. What counts as an "ongoing effect" has been a topic of discussion ever since the book was released, but under most interpretations, pregnancy counts. And you also get [[DeadBabyComedy a +2 Morale bonus to your next attack, due to how uplifting it is.]]

* The novelization to ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' says that the titular maze was designed by a witch whose main job was to get rid of unwanted pregnancies that the mother's couldn't afford.

* In Literature/TheBible (specifically, the Book of Numbers), there is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordeal_of_the_bitter_water a test]] for a woman whose husband suspects her of cheating, but doesn't have proof. He takes her to the temple, unbinds her hair, and they offer some grain flour to call on {{God}} to judge her. The priest mixes some dust from the floor with water in an earthenware vessel, and writes a {{Curse}} to go with it. If the woman has ''not'' been cheating (but only been MistakenForCheating), then the cursed water will not affect her. But if she ''has'', then one interpretation is that it would cause her to miscarry, either right then and there or shortly afterwards. This reading of Numbers 5 is a ''very'' [[BrokenBase contentious for obvious reasons]] - the [=NIV=] explicitly identifies this as miscarrage, while other translations read this as the curse causing infertility.

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* Solution Epsilon from ''[[LightNovel/Overlord2012 Overlord]]'' shapeshifts her hands into realistic abortion tools when Sebas asks her to take care of an injured prostitute.

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* Near the end of ''Film/{{Constantine}}'', John's love interest and girl sidekick Angela becomes mystically impregnated with the Antichrist, which is sent back to Hell through a personal appearance by Satan. In this case she wasn't so much literally pregnant as acting as sort of "[[{{squick}} flesh]]-[[CoolGate gate]]" to hell.

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* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': Phoebe's [[TheAntiChrist Antichrist]]-like son is transferred out of her body into the uterus of another woman, The Seer, whom the ''Charmed'' sisters then kill. Phoebe doesn't seem particularly shaken up about it, which makes sense since when the baby controlled her she felt that it wasn't hers nor did it have a soul (which was true, since it was the Seer's own evil spawn) and it absolves her of all the crappy things she does while she was pregnant.

* ''Series/TheMagicians'': {{Discussed}} by Julia and Kady after the former gets pregnant by rape. However, it turns out spells that cause abortion are very dangerous, with side effects like erasing the woman's uterus, so they decide a regular medical procedure is a safer idea. After this doesn't work as Renard [[PsychicAssistedSuicide forces the doctor to kill herself]], she gets a different magical one from two Korean magicians that is successful. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it has the side effect of [[TheSoulless severing her shade]].]]

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* In Literature/TheBible (specifically, the Book of Numbers), there is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordeal_of_the_bitter_water a test]] for a woman whose husband suspects her of cheating, but doesn't have proof. He takes her to the temple, unbinds her hair, and they offer some grain flour to call on {{God}} to judge her. The priest mixes some dust from the floor with water in an earthenware vessel, and writes a {{Curse}} to go with it. If the woman has ''not'' been cheating (but only been MistakenForCheating), then the cursed water will not affect her. But if she ''has'', then one interpretation is that it would cause her to miscarry, either right then and there or shortly afterwards. Note that this reading of Numbers 5 is a ''very'' [[BrokenBase contentious for obvious reasons]] - the [=NIV=] explicitly identifies this as miscarrage, while other translations read this as the curse causing infertility.

* In Literature/TheBible (specifically, the Book of Numbers), there is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordeal_of_the_bitter_water a test]] for a woman whose husband suspects her of cheating, but doesn't have proof. He takes her to the temple, unbinds her hair (and according to some interpretations, [[ShamefulStrip some or all of her clothing is removed]]), and they offer some grain flour to call on {{God}} to judge her. The priest mixes some dust from the floor with water in an earthenware vessel, and writes a {{Curse}} to go with it. If the woman has ''not'' been cheating (but only been MistakenForCheating), then the cursed water will not affect her. But if she ''has'', then one interpretation is that it would cause her to miscarry, either right then and there or shortly afterwards. (Other interpretations include ''her'' dying, prolapse of the reproductive organs, infertility, her lover(s) dying, contracting an STD, or some combination thereof.)
* Also from The Bible: In the Literature/BookOfHosea, God threatens to give His people Israel a miscarrying womb and dry breasts for their disobedience to Him.

* Pre-emptively averted in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': While gender-bending transformation magic is damned near everywhere, [[ShapeshifterModeLock you can't transform from female to male while pregnant.]]

* One character in ''Literature/BlackDogs'' uses the Kytha (a kind of physical magic) to abort a pregnancy by rape and purposefully sterilizes herself in the process. She knew that if she simply aborted the baby, the villain would just rape her again and again until she conceived and bore a living child.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' exposure to dark magic in the womb kills [[spoiler: Daenerys']] unborn son, mutating and decaying him and rendering her infertile. [[spoiler:Said magic is worked by a witch whose community was overrun by the Dothraki, both to [[{{Revenge}} avenge her people]] and to avert the son's [[TheProphecy prophesied]] conquest of other peoples.]]

Contrast PlotRelevantAgeUp and SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome, where the inconvenient infant is born and then matured to a more usable character.

* In Literature/TheBible (specifically, the Book of Numbers), there is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordeal_of_the_bitter_water a test]] for a woman whose husband suspects her of [[YourCheatingHeart cheating]], but doesn't have proof. He takes her to the temple, unbinds her hair (and according to some interpretations, [[ShamefulStrip some or all of her clothing is removed]]), and they offer some grain flour to call on {{God}} to judge her. The priest mixes some dust from the floor with water in an earthenware vessel, and writes a {{Curse}} to go with it. If the woman has ''not'' been cheating (but only been MistakenForCheating), then the cursed water will not affect her. But if she ''has'', then one interpretation is that it would cause her to miscarry, either right then and there or shortly afterwards. (Other interpretations include ''her'' dying, prolapse of the reproductive organs, infertility, her lover(s) dying, contracting an STD, or some combination thereof.)

* ''Literature/NightWatchSeries'' starts with the ''[[AntiHero hero]]'' getting a witch to magically abort his ex girlfriend's pregnancy so she would come back to him. [[spoiler:He backs out of going through with it but it still comes back to bite him.]]

* ''Literature/NightWatch'' starts with the ''[[AntiHero hero]]'' getting a witch to magically abort his ex girlfriend's pregnancy so she would come back to him. [[spoiler:He backs out of going through with it but it still comes back to bite him.]]

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': Phoebe's [[TheAntiChrist Antichrist]]-like son is transferred out of her body into the uterus of another woman, The Seer, whom the ''Charmed'' sisters then kill. Phoebe doesn't seem particularly shaken up about it, which makes sense since when the baby controlled her she felt that it wasn't hers nor did it have a soul (which was true, since it was the Seer's own evil spawn) and it absolves her of all the crappy things she does while she was pregnant.

* [[GoodBadBugs Inadvertently possible]] in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', thanks to the Tome of Battle. Though its magical qualities are [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower arguable]], one of the powers it introduces lets you end any ongoing effect currently effecting your character. [[GoodBadBugs What counts as an "ongoing effect"]] has been [[FandomBerserkButton a topic of discussion]] [[InternetBackdraft ever since the book was released]], but [[MemeticMutation under most interpretations, pregnancy counts.]] And you also get [[DeadBabyComedy a +2 Morale bonus to your next attack, due to how uplifting it is.]]

* In the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' universe, the ''between'' used in teleporting is very cold, seeing as how it is absolute nothingness. Female dragonriders who go ''between'' too often or too long can end up infertile or sterile, and at least one dragonrider has deliberately used it to induce multiple abortions.
** In some books in the series 'taking a short dragon ride' is mentioned as a Pernese euphemism for abortion.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' exposure to dark magic in the womb kills [[spoiler: Daenerys']] unborn son, mutating and decaying him.

* Cordelia on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' was pregnant twice over the course of the series, only the last of which resulted in an actual birth. Her first pregnancy in season one (''Expecting'') with demonic septuplets was terminated supernaturally by the death of their demon daddy, [[NoOntologicalInertia which destroyed the evil babies by proxy through a psychic connection]].
** Apart from the two actual pregnancies (three if you count the demon eggs in her skull) Cordelia was also faced with numerous impregnation attempts. "And when we're finished here, can we go and find some world somewhere where an ugly demon doesn't want to impregnate me with his demon seed? I mean, is it me? Do I give off some kind of 'come-shuck-me' vibe? You'd tell me, right?"
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Darla, who ''tried'' to find some way to get rid of her pregnancy, whether mundane or magical, but couldn't--fetus!Connor basically had a magical force field around him. Ironically the thing that came closest to killing him was his actual birth, since the same magic caused complications before [[spoiler:Darla, who was vicariously able to love Connor since ''he'' had a soul, [[HeroicSacrifice staked herself so that he could survive]]]].
* Phoebe on ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' arguably had the most far-fetched use of this trope, when her Antichrist-like son was transferred out of her body into the uterus of another woman, The Seer, whom the ''Charmed'' sisters then killed. Pheobe doesn't seem particularly shaken up about it, which makes sense since when the baby controlled her she felt that it wasn't hers nor did it have a soul (which was true, since it was the Seer's own evil spawn) and it absolved her of all the crappy things she did while she was pregnant.

* Curtis from ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' used his gender shifting power and accidentally impregnated himself with some of his own sperm. This left him [[ShapeshifterModeLock unable to turn back into a man]] so he got Seth to remove his power and make him a non-permanence male again.