A new documentary called "Hollywood Does Abortion" asserted that abortion has been "severely stigmatized" by the entertainment industry until recently.The movie, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday, is described as diving into how "from the 1970s to the present, film and television have too often relied on dangerously misleading distortions about abortions and the people who seek them.""In programs like 'Roseanne' and 'Party of Five" or movies like 'Juno,' characters often agonized over whether to have the kid and either had a false positive or miscarriage that prevented them from needing to make a choice or opted to give birth," Variety reported on the documentary.OUTCRY OVER YOUTUBER'S DOWN SYNDROME ABORTION PROVES AMERICANS ARE 'REPULSED BY EUGENICS,' ACTIVIST SAYS"Hollywood Does Abortion," a documentary exploring Hollywood's depiction of abortions since the 1970s, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday.(Kirby Lee/Getty Images)The article continued, "Other films and series like 'Dirty Dancing' or 'The Sopranos' depicted women nearly dying from their abortions or having longterm medical consequences that left them unable to have children.
The negative portrait of abortion in these films and series contributed to is counterintuitive because Hollywood is often seen as a bastion of liberal politics."Directors Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Mike Attie argued that although there have been more media portrayals of abortion in recent years, many of them are still depicted in a negative light.FORMER PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINIC DIRECTOR PROMISES TO EXPOSE ABORTION INDUSTRY'S 'DIRTIEST SECRETS'"We think of Hollywood as being very progressive, yet we went through a pretty big era where abortion was severely stigmatized," Barbara Attie said, according to Variety."It was made to be shameful.
There would be a plot line where somebody would thinking about getting an abortion.They would ask their friends what they should do, and they would agonize ov...