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Let's not forget, the movie is trying to create a comedy world
There are some issues that are very hard to introduce into a comedy and maintain the mood they are working to establish. Once you raise the issue of abortion, you put the audience in a frame of mind very different than the one you've been building. Even if you manage to get humor out of it (as in the famous epidsode of Maude) it's a very different emotional place you're putting the audience in. A place quite a few of them are unwilling to go. It's a major distraction for a movie that, as mentioned, needs the pregnancy to fulfill its premise.