nytimes.com | By Cara Buckley | July 18, 2019
While depictions of abortion on TV used to be scarce and highly dramatized, Hollywood is beginning to portray abortion care and the decision to have an abortion more realistically and in more diverse settings. This New York Times article provides examples of TV portrayals of abortion that both normalize abortion care and resist media’s culture of exceptionalizing reproductive healthcare.
http://publicsquaremedia.org/nochoice/ | 2018
In this series, people who have accessed abortion care, as well as one physician who provides abortion care, tell their stories and ponder what the United States might look like without Roe v. Wade mandating abortions be legal.
thenib.com | By Candice Russell | May 30, 2017
This excerpt from Comics for Choice demonstrates that people’s dynamic life situations inform their reproductive decisions. Through one person’s story of deciding to have two abortions at different times and in two distinct life circumstances, they portray that the decision to have an abortion results from diverse life experiences. Further, this piece makes the argument that no one ever owes anyone else an explanation for their decision to have an abortion.
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