Midway through this year, the reproductive rights of folks with uteruses living in the U.S. suffered a cataclysmic regression when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Now, with at least 33 million Americans without access to safe abortion care, how has this seismic change in our reality been reflected in entertainment? This is the central question of the latest study from Abortions Onscreen, a research initiative from the University of California San Francisco’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH).
The fifth annual report “Abortions Onscreen in 2022” documents several key discoveries, including a continued trend of increased abortion portrayals on TV, with 60 abortion plotlines or