What It's Like to Have an Abortion in Texas: TV Shows Finally Grappling with Realities Women Face

A young woman sitting on her kitchen table, or perhaps on her bed, his head in her hands, and the circles under her eyes. The results of a pregnancy test in the bathroom to get rid of them positive. They reach for the phone somewhere close to find the option to provide abortions.

Hundreds of women face this reality every day, but on screens large and small, that the phone call is rare. Call resulting in virtually an abortion taboo particularly notable, and one that has been broken several times, even in the prevailing popular culture can be counted on two hands.

But this year, because public opinion toward abortion rights shows reluctantly at best, and the state after state passes restrictions difficult to establish barriers to women that you want to, we have seen more than fictional characters that make the phone call. Although not all of them abortion, the age of Juno and Knocked up - movies that have been deleted from the strange abortion as a viable option - and seems to be more. Last fall, and a short video on the Internet entitled "Children and clear," got the attention of the codes of women during the filming of Lalla regrets of abortion bring a couple together. As if answering his call, and began to abortions performed on larger screens again.

This Friday, the beloved television series of the very "Friday Night Lights" when he made waves 16 years) character Becky passed with abortion, and said "It was the right thing to do." Earlier this year, Ben Stiller big screen Greenberg broke the barrier the car more difficult and more complicated when one of the very three-dimensional figures to have an abortion and the film actually mined humor from this situation. As they did with the "abortion" forces of national liberation, and hailed by critics, writer / director Noah Baumbach to show the procedure in the context of a real bullet and without any preaching or evasion.

Even "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," off the forces of national liberation in terms of quality drama, and politics of realism and commitment, took character to an abortion clinic on Monday. Of course, changed her mind. However, during the filming and the type of clinic workers and friends Adrian as supportive of her decision, so that the show seems to get away from noisy propaganda against the option to choose "more slippery is good, but one option is better" philosophy.

Interestingly, in the early 1980s, when it appeared Rowe exposed to attack from the Reagan administration, dealt with films such as dirty dancing, fast times at Ridgemont High abortion without fear. Paid again today, and the climate seems dangerous abortion by guards and on our television screens, which allows viewers to explore the various myths and realities of women in positions of these figures difficult.