More TV Shows Are Telling Abortion Stories. But They Often Don’t Reflect Reality.

“What really got to me about this year — and over the past couple of years, really — is we’ve seen this mounting number, this incredible increase in abortion restrictions that we’ve never seen before, in real life. And that’s just not translating to the lives of characters on TV. They’re just totally divorced from the reality of abortion access,” said Steph Herold, a researcher at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, and one of the authors of the report. Advertisement Herold and her colleagues have been tracking abortion storylines in pop culture… Read Full Article