All of the films, except If These Walls Could Talk and Waitress, were directed by men.
In my opinion the majority of men filmmakers don't really intend to use abortion or pregnancy for moral reasoning, IE. Antichrist, various sci-fi movies, etc.. (why may actually push towards revealing how pregnancy and abortions are/ can be terrifying). In these films, I find an overall message: if a woman decides not to have an abortion, she will be happy; if a woman contemplates whether or not to have an abortion, she will be met with (a) miscarriage or (b) sadness, grief, disaster; if a woman has an abortion, she will either (a) die or (b) suffer.
Five days ago, Vice published an article entitled "Jemima Kirke Speaks Out About the Stigma of Abortion". Jemima Kirke is best known for her role in the series Girls but she is, also, an important activist in the Draw the Line campaign (which deals with the fundamental issues regarding women's reproductive rights). Read the article if interested: http://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/jemima-kirke-speaks-out-about-the-stigma-of-abortion?utm_source=vicefbus
Oliver describes a multitude of stigmas regarding abortion, including terms such as "excessive", "dangerous", "bloody", "monstrous", etc. Most of these stigmas have manifested themselves within the Hollywood film industry. She further references the Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days that exposes the consequences of the illegality of abortion. Countries within Central America, South America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia are home to some of the strictest abortion laws in the world (where by many women seek abortions elsewhere).
Here is a link to map that indicates the abortion laws throughout the world: http://worldabortionlaws.com/map/
Malaika thanks a lot for sharing the link. It is interesting to see other country's stance on abortion as a whole. Also it brings into question women's access to abortion in war zones as Iraq and Syria are represented with red. Rape is used against women as a war tactic and as known ISIS raped and "traded" many Yezidi women after their invasion of Iraq. This can be extended to Serbian rape camps targetting Bosnian women during the Balkan War and the Hutsi rape camps against Tutsi women in Rwanda... The article The Girl Who Made Us Think About Autonomy ends as "On this conception the epitome of fascism lies in violence against women and its sanction by a network state,social, and financial institutions..." One of the examples to this is the existence of rape camps as a war tactic and the world's passivity against it. As no one speaks about this or there is no initiative to prevent this in the future. Even when the war crimes are being recognized or remembered often times rape camps get swept under the carpet or is stated at the end of the list.
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