Why Doesn’t Hollywood Emphasize Abortions More?

That’s the rather ghoulish question asked by the New York Times:

But in another way, both movies go out of their way to sidestep real life. Nearly two-thirds of unwanted pregnancies end in abortion, data from federal surveys shows. Yet Jenna in “Waitress” is more likely to ponder selling the baby than to consider having the procedure. And Alison, who has just been promoted to her dream job as an on-camera television personality and asked to lose 20 pounds, is torn over whether to keep the man, not the baby.
The possibility of not having the baby is never discussed by either woman despite her circumstances. The word “abortion” is never uttered.

Could it be because Hollywood doesn’t want to turn a “good guy” female character into a “bad guy” by having her shirk her parental responsibility by murdering her unborn child in a disgusting medical procedure? That seems obvious, even to those in Hollywood:

“It’s one of those topics that would alienate a portion of the audience no matter what you do,” Sarah Brown, executive director of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, said of Hollywood’s reluctance to tackle abortion more realistically.
Perhaps directors of feel-good movies don’t want to risk portraying their heroines as unsympathetic characters.
Jonathan Kuntz, an American film history professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that for the entertainment industry, “It’s a no-win situation.”

Of course it is. Abortion is always a no-win situation. It kills the baby and turns the doctor/mother into the killers. And despite all the rhetoric from the left about how “courageous” women are who go through the procedure, when confronted with the reality of the situation on the big screen (a mother choosing shirk the consequences of her own actions at the expense of her baby’s life) audiences just aren’t going to be sympathetic.