Pro-life propaganda films

This post started its life as an email, thus, beware of stylistic oddities.. I wrote the email after attending a preview (for free) of Juno, a comedy starring two guys from Arrested Development & a whole bunch of other good people. The movie was about a teenager, who gets pregnant & decides to have the baby & and then give it up for adoption, since she's not able to raise it. The movie is very well written (very funny!), but it totally demonizes abortion (it seems, the only reason she doesn't get an abortion is because the people at the abortion clinic are obsessed with their nails & don't particularly care about her, the heroine). This movie is the second one we've seen previewed for free in the past half a year (or so) that dealt with unwanted babies and totally dissmissed abortion as a viable option. (Waitress was the first one). Moreover, these two movies seem to fall into a recent trend of similarly minded productions. And now, the email:

Both, Juno and Waitress were produced and distributed by Fox, but then Knocked Up was Universal. Also, apparently Fox produced a documentary about abortion last year (Facing Reality: Choice), which followed the lives of three women only one of whom ended up having an abortion.. A quick Google search showed that I am not the only one to observe the pattern of propaganda films. For example, this Time Out London review speaks my mind:
http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/84643/Juno.html

Also, interestingly enough, I found two entries on the conservative, pro-life side of the debate, documenting what they describe as a "pro-life film trend":

Here's a blog entry from a (as I understand) rather prominent pro-lifer:

http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2007/10/
on October 29th, she posted this entry:
"First, in an October 27 column, "'Bella' and the pro-life film trend," Brent Bozell of Media Research Center wrote:

The bohemian worldview of Woodstock Nation is in some ways dominant, and in some ways passe in our popular culture.... [T]he "free love" spirit of "if it feels good, do it" still runs strong, especially in our entertainment world. And yet, burbling beneath a noisy culture of sexual excess and self-love, there's a quiet undercurrent in our movies carrying subtle, and even obvious, pro-life themes.

Bozell gives examples of recent film releases: Children of Men, Waitress, Knocked Up, and Bella.

I would add another, due out this holiday season, Juno, starring Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ellen Page, and Rainn Wilson."

And so here's the Brent Bozell article, which in itself is rather interesting:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrentBozellIII/2007/10/27/bella_and_the_pro-life_film_trend

He mentions two movies (Cider House Rules and Vera Drake), which, as he says, "celebrated wise and sympathetic abortionists." But, first of all, both of these movies are already several years old, whereas all of these "pro-life" movies have been released within the last year, and second of all, there's a huge difference between portraying "sympathetic abortionists" and addressing one's personal choice to have an abortion head-on (portraying abortionists is a safer, less politicized way of addressing the issue).

Here's the New York Times article Bozell references, which talks about Waitress and Knocked Up and brings up lots of great points about economics and politics of independent movies, blockbusters, and TV shows to examine the causes of this bias in media's portrayal of abortion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/fashion/10Knockedup.html

(Here's a quote from the end of the article:

"And though 'General Hospital' went so far as to portray a character going through with an abortion last year, Nancy Lee Grahn, a longtime abortion rights advocate and an actress who plays Alexis on the show, said the writers made sure they wrote in opposing views, including dialogue in which another character called the pregnant woman a 'baby killer.'

Ms. Grahn, who said she had an abortion in her 20s, said that 'women who have been able to go on with their life without feeling evil' are not represented on television.

Dr. Kuntz, the film historian at U.C.L.A., said there is little incentive for such stories to be told. 'Hollywood wants to entertain and make money,' he said.") 

The New York Times article cites "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" as the last movie in recent decades to show the main character getting an abortion matter-of-factly.

The way I see it, having seen yet another movie (for free!!!) about one young girl's decision not to have an abortion, at least one company -- Fox -- is definitely committed to producing anti-abortion media content, fully supported by and in their turn fueling the current administration's initiatives to criminalize abortion.