IT'S HERE! Our research on how TV tackled abortion in 2025.
Some notable findings:
📺 only 37% of shows featured a character who actually had an abortion, down past years
📺 the return of several troubling themes, notably the association of abortion w/shame & death
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Abortion Onscreen in 2025
This year, we tracked 65 abortion plotlines across cable, broadcast, and streaming channels. While we documented some familiar trends, we also observed a return to concerning tropes.
