Get It Right – Portraying Abortion Providers on TV
From procedural dramas like Law and Order to supernatural fantasies like True Blood, sociologist Gretchen Sisson and host Jamie Broadnax tease out some surprising trends and tropes with regard to abortion care onscreen.
Did you know that there are more fictional deaths from abortion shown on television than there are actual deaths from abortion each year? In the third episode of Get It Right, Jamie Broadnax sits down with sociologist Gretchen Sisson to explore Gretchen’s comprehensive research into the ways abortion care and abortion providers have been portrayed on television. From procedural dramas like Law and Order to supernatural fantasies like True Blood, Gretchen and Jamie tease out some surprising trends and tropes with regard to abortion care onscreen.
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