Just One of 2023’s Top Films Portrayed an Abortion
As a movie enthusiast, I was struck by the fact that out of the top 100 box office hits of 2023, only one film, Blumhouse/Universal’s horror flick Exorcist: Believer, features a depiction of abortion – and it’s delivered by a demon character. The line goes like this: “She was scraped out, just like a rotten pumpkin, your baby,” the demon maliciously says while tormenting Ann Dowd’s character, who played a woman grappling with an abortion from her past.