Can abortion be funny? Thoughts on Obvious Child.

Obvious Child opens with a joke about vaginal discharge and ends with Donna, its protagonist, wrapped in blankets on her couch, sipping tea, resting after her abortion.  These moments represent the film’s strengths—its hilarity, its irreverence, its sincerity, and its quietly revolutionary story. Our research here at ANSIRH has shown how fraught cinematic abortion stories […]