Abortion Is More Dangerous to Women in Movies and TV Than in Real Life
LatestIt would be nice if the entertainment business made an effort to represent abortion in a realistic, rational matter. Unfortunately, new research shows movies and television dramatically overestimate the dangers of the procedure. Pop culture spreading misinformation about reproductive health? Imagine!
Bitch reports that researchers at ANSIRH, a reproductive advocacy group, recently conducted a “census” of abortion’s pop culture portrayal from 1916 to the present day. They published the results in the journal Contraception, as well as producing an infographic. And actually, abortion and the decision whether to have one are depicted more commonly than you might assume, with 385 storylines in movies and TV (most of them after Roe v. Wade) and 87 occurring on primetime TV.