USA – TV Has Shifted Our Cultural Perception of Who Has Abortions

TV Has Shifted Our Cultural Perception of Who Has Abortions

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
Published on July 2, 2019

Television has often afforded abortion a nuance that politicians miss, allowing viewers to better understand the procedure and empathize with characters who terminate their pregnancies. In 2015, the Advancing New Standards In Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)’s Abortion Onscreen Project found 78 storylines on American TV between 2005 and 2014 where a character considered having an abortion. (Fifty-one percent of those characters decided to have an abortion.) While an increase in abortion storylines might feel like a positive shift, ANSIRH also found that 87 percent of onscreen characters who get abortions were white compared to 36 percent in real life.

“The majority of people who have abortions are people of color,” Renee Bracey Sherman, founder of We Testify, a National Network of Abortion Funds’ program for people who’ve had abortions, tells Bitch. “So when television and film aren’t representing us, not only is it inaccurate, but it’s also showing us that our stories don’t matter and aren’t the norm.”

Continued: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/abortion-characters-of-color-on-television?fbclid=IwAR0Ftb4ArOwwUphatQwDM9xJT3FPKiSfeHkFoNStI4Xyyr7nlh0FDkJ5dqE


Unsafe Abortion In Latin America Is A Health Emergency & It’s Time To Treat It Like One

Unsafe Abortion In Latin America Is A Health Emergency & It's Time To Treat It Like One

By Nicole Froio
Aug 16, 2018

Women are dying every year in Latin America because those in power treat abortion as a moral, religious issue rather than what it is: a health crisis. There is nothing moral about letting women die year after year. Decriminalizing abortion in Latin America is an immediate emergency — you cannot forbid abortion, you can only force women to die trying.

Elizabeth was only 24 years old when she died from septic shock and inflammation in her uterus after attempting to terminate a pregnancy with parsley. The mother of two was rushed to the hospital in Buenos Aires. Her uterus was removed, but the attempt to save her life failed.

Continued: https://www.bustle.com/p/unsafe-abortion-in-latin-america-is-a-health-emergency-its-time-to-treat-it-like-one-10136754