Group Says There Are Not Enough Abortions Shown On Television Lately

 

If you are a sane person like me, you’ve probably been thinking to yourself, “You know, I don’t think there are enough abortions being shown on television lately.” At least, that’s what the fine folks at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, a research program on abortion at the University of California-San Fransico, must think. They produce the annual “Abortion Onscreen” report, the newest of which notes that, while there were 66 abortion storylines in 2024, there remains much work to do.

To wit, NPR’s Neda Ulaby sadly noted: “But in the past few years, there’s been a significant drop in the number of characters who actually went through with an abortion. 37% obtained an abortion in 2025, a 14% decline since 2023.” Dear God, a 14% drop in fictional characters’ abortions onscreen?! You can clearly see the heavy hand of bigoted Christian Nationalists at work in this country!

A “researcher” named Steph Herold told the always utterly unbiased (and partially taxpayer-funded) NPR of onscreen abortions, “I think there still is a lot of stigma, even in allegedly liberal Hollywood.” My God, in truth Hollywood must be littered with MAGA types! How could anyone arbitrarily attach a stigma to unfettered and onscreen abortion?!

The one “bright spot” when looking at the year’s onscreen abortion stories, according to Herold and parroted by NPR, is that a “slight majority of characters in abortion plotlines are people of color.” Fantastic, because who wouldn’t be pleased with people of color erasing themselves?! Apparently not NPR.

Herold also noted that Hollywood could do a better job of stigmatizing pro-life religious people and celebrating pro-abortion religious people.

Um, Steph, there are no truly religious “pro-abortion” people.

Leftists never tire of pushing the envelope. Soon they will bemoan the lack of gang-rapes on television shows, a clear indication of a white, Christian bias “in this country.” Not long after, they will indignantly ask why there are so few onscreen depictions of necrophilia and bestiality. “You know, Hollywood could do a better job of stigmatizing the far-right anti-bestiality bigots,” they will shout.

In truth, the rest of us should do a far better job of stigmatizing misplaced “tolerance” and the idea that “diversity” is always a good thing.