Abortion on TV: No longer for Very Special Episodes

Salon Mix by Salon Mix

May 10, 201700:13:41News & Politics

Although abortion has been legal in the United States since 1973, TV — both scripted and reality — all but ignored the issue for decades. Salon writer Mary Elizabeth Williams talks to sociologist Gretchen Sisson, one of...

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