.unpregnantmovie is now on hbomax! Stars Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira spoke with us on how their film dispels preconceived notions about abortion: 'There is no type, and I think that's one of a lot of things that we need to destigmatize'
There is one particularly poignant scene about midway through the movie when, shortly before arriving at the clinic, the two get into an argument after Veronica’s classmates call her to tell her they solved the mystery of a telltale pregnancy test found in their school’s dumpster. While the test was Veronica’s, her friends insist that it’s Bailey’s. To save face, Veronica agrees — but Bailey overhears, leading her to ditch Veronica.
“I think that’s my favorite line in the whole movie,” Ferreira tells MTV News. “I always laugh when people think they're above something. And it's like, having an abortion, there's no type for that. Anybody who is having sexual intercourse with a penis and a vagina can have some sort of chance of getting pregnant, whether that’s with birth control or not. There's no look for it. It's not a certain type of girl. One in four women will have an abortion or have had an abortion.
“Even though she almost immediately knows what she wants to do and the choice that she wants to make for herself, it doesn't mean that she's totally comfortable with it,” Richardson says, “which is why she feels like she can't go to her friends or her boyfriend or even her parents, because she's so worried about what they're going to think of her and how their perception of her will be tarnished because she failed in this way.
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