“The need for accurate abortion stories is one tool we have left to educate people about the procedure.” via WMC's the_fbomb
about a TV series focused on an abortion clinic and its staff, which attracted a big producer and big-name actors, but no network wanted to greenlight it. The feedback, according to Herold, was that networks “would never have a show that focused entirely on abortion, that it was too sad, that it was a downer, that it was a bummer.”
To understand why media storytellers depict abortion this way, the researchers behind the study reached out to 46 showrunners, producers, writers, executive producers, and story editors to get their answers. One of the prevailing facts unearthed inwas the storytellers’ desire to upend the stigmatizing narratives surrounding abortion, the first of which was the common depiction of abortion as a tragedy.
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