No Big deal abortion
Anime and Manga- Kodomo no Kodomo: Averted by Tomoko. When she realized that she was pregnant, other options are never discussed and abortion is what she plans on doing, and eventually does a few chapters later.
- In Wild Adapter. Pregnant teenager Saori runs away from home and befriends series leads Kubota and Tokitoh. They're investigating the mysterious drug W•A; she's looking for her missing boyfriend. Turns out W•A killed him. In love with her boyfriend but ambivalent about her pregnancy, Saori is strongly implied to have had an abortion by the end of the story. Kubota offers sympathetic acknowledgment: "women are strong, aren't they? Look at us men, we're hopeless."
- In Eternal Sabbath — when Yuri's mother finds out she's pregnant just as she's starting to rebuild her relationship with her daughter, she opts to abort, out of equal parts a desire to concentrate on Yuri and out of fear she'll love the new child to the point where she'll be unable to accept the one she has. The story is entirely on her side. When Isaac kills her — abortion is his Berserk Button for very valid reasons: it's not presented as karma, but as a tragedy, and is the crucial mistake that seals his fate.
Webcomics
- Anders Loves Maria brings this up several times, with Maria and Tina both having abortions in the back story. Tina is also going in for an abortion when she finds out that she's had a Convenient Miscarriage. Needs more context
Black Comedy Abortion
Fanfics- Averted in this
Dragon Ball Z fanfic, which Topless Robot found so disturbing that they refused to provide running commentary on it. Videl gets an abortion because she heard it would sexually arouse her, and it's possible that she had sex to get pregnant for this reason. - Very much subverted in the Hetalia: Axis Powers fic, Pickles and Peanut Butter. Through some unexplained phenomenon, the nations randomly become pregnant (sex not required) with the nation dying and the baby replacing them. Because it's considered to be too risky to leave any country under the protection of a child for any length of time, the nations all abort with some more affected than others. America, taken by surprise when it happens to him, as no one explained it, tries to keep his. The other nations first try to hold an "intervention", then resort to ordering an abortion when he passes out.
Music
- "Oasis" by Amanda Palmer is a cheery little number about a girl who gets raped, ends up getting pregnant, and gets an abortion with absolutely no regrets. Mind you, she is a bit more focused on the fact that Oasis wrote back to her...
- There's also "Mandy Goes To Med School", by Palmer with her band The Dresden Dolls, a slinky, jazzy tune about operating a back-alley abortion clinic in an SUV. Both could be considered satirical Protest Songs.
- The first strip of Something*Positive has Davan sending a wire hanger to an old girlfriend who's having a baby shower. A later series of strips would have him escorting another old girlfriend to an abortion clinic. (For the record, neither child has any chance of being his.)
- Very much averted in Ansem Retort: when Aerith gets pregnant, she has a brief moment of wondering if she could really go through with the abortion, then goes to Zexion to get it done. She shows zero remorse or guilt for it, and Zexion and Axel try to feed the fetus to Sora. Yeah, it's a Black Comedy.Axel: EAT MY ABORTION!
- Foxxy Love in Drawn Together apparently gets them on a regular basis, but considering what type of show it is that's not very surprising.
- In the Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", one of the episodes involves Stimpy believing he's pregnant with Ren. After Ren is told about it, he immediately pulls out a hanger and starts approaching Stimpy with it. Thankfully, he's promptly persuaded not to do it.
- In South Park:
- Cartman teaches a group of students at an Inner City School "the white people method of cheating." One of his students is upset because she is pregnant and won't be going to college. She tells him as a Catholic she thinks abortion is wrong but Cartman tries to convince her that abortion is the ultimate form of cheating and thus she must have one.
- In "Kenny Dies" he convinces a woman who wanted her baby to get an abortion so the stem cells could be used to save Kenny's life. Except it was actually a plan to get pizza. Though this one could be debated, as he didn't come up with that plan until long after he started getting stem cells to help Kenny.
- When Mr. Garrison gets his sex-change operation he is excited to be pregnant, just so that he can get an abortion. He's then surprised to find out male-to-female transsexuals can't become pregnant.
- Cartman's mother contemplates getting an abortion... of Cartman... years after his birth. She goes on a crusade to get fortieth-trimester abortion legalized, only to finally realize she was getting it mixed up with adoption.
- In the Woodland Critter Christmas Episode, Stan has to get three lion cubs trained to do an abortion to prevent the birth of The Antichrist. They are too late to abort the birth, though the skills come in handy after The Antichrist is absorbed into Kyle.
- In the Pro Wrestling Episode "W.T.F." the boys set up a WWE acting ring, and Cartman regularly takes the role of a wrestler's floozy. One of his most frequent claims is that he's addicted to drugs, pregnant with some other wrestler's baby, and then that he's had an abortion. Eventually he makes the claim that he's addicted -- to abortions.
Mixed feelings/regretted abortions:
Live Action TV- Liar (2017): Makeda takes drugs to induce abortion. Nobody in the know disapproves, but they cover it up because her father would, and send Makeda back to Ethiopia.
- Line of Duty: Lindsay Denton tells Steve she had an abortion once as her then-lover refused to help her and denied the baby was even his. She says it's the worse thing she's ever done, and deeply regrets it.
- Little Fires Everywhere: In the series Lexie has an abortion, though she's shown to have pretty mixed feelings about it, but no one else (who knows anyway) tells her this was wrong.
- The Practice: Rebecca mentions having an abortion once to Eugene, and seems unhappy about it, or has mixed feelings. Later Helen claims she had an abortion at 19 when trying to get a confession out of a girl who killed her late-term baby. She actually didn't though, but claims to have sympathy for the girl.
