{"id":198615,"date":"2019-03-20T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=198615"},"modified":"2019-03-19T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T22:54:16","slug":"hulu-abortion-empowering-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hulu-abortion-empowering-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hulu show portrays abortion as ’empowering’ in the very first episode"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lindy West, one of the co-founders of the “Shout Your Abortion” movement, has teamed up with Hulu for a television adaptation of her memoir. The comedy series, titled “Shrill,” follows Annie, described as an overweight woman juggling her career as a journalist with boyfriends, her parents, and societal pressure to change how she looks. Yet the very first episode featured an abortion scene<\/a> that is being praised by the abortion industry and its defenders.<\/p>\n

According to West, the abortion<\/a> featured in the episode is based on her true life experience, and she wanted it to be shown in a favorable manner. \u201cI think that we don\u2019t typically see abortion presented on screen in an honest real way, in the way that it actually is a part of people\u2019s lives,\u201d she said to Page Six. \u201cI mean, understandably, people who are making television need to make drama and excitement and the reality is that this is a medical procedure that is very normal \u2026 I think that it\u2019s really, really important to present that kind of mundane counterexample to the way that abortion is presented in media because people don\u2019t understand that it can, not just be a neutral and mundane part of people\u2019s lives, but a positive part of people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

West previously compared having an abortion to having a wisdom tooth removed<\/a>. Of course, a wisdom tooth isn’t a human being that is alive….<\/p>\n