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Abortion On Demand

the abortion-quandary plotline, featuring an uncertain pregnant woman agonizing over her decision. For years, this was how abortion was portrayed—until the medium’s great flowering in the new century. A brief survey of abortion TV, from “Maude’s Dilemma” to ’s jokes and

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