Or something.
Via Newsbusters:
Since when does TV closely align with reality? Pretty rarely. However, whenever there’s an agenda to be achieved by doing so, you can expect liberals to chime in.
Recently, NPR reported results from a University of California study that revealed TV portrayals of women who have abortions make them whiter, younger, wealthier and less likely to already have children than true statistics reflect.
According to research sociologist Gretchen Sisson, “very few people have a context for the reality of abortion care, so these fictional stories that happen on-screen can have greater power to influence perceptions of what that care looks like in real life.”
A Huffington Post article weighed in on the same study. “Abortion on the small (and big) screen helps to push the conversation forward, normalize a still very taboo topic, and de-stigmatize abortions and the women who have them.” Aha! So there’s the agenda.
The misrepresentative factors on TV work “to build an interesting social myth,” Sisson continued. The top on-screen reasons for abortion “contribute to the construction of abortion as a self-focused decision, and to the belief that abortions are ‘wanted’ because of personal desires rather than ‘needed’ because of circumstances such as poverty.” Even if you acknowledge the rare cases of a mother’s life being jeopardy, abortions would be rarely “needed.” There’s a great solution for impoverished mothers who can’t support their babies – adoption. Maybe Sisson hasn’t heard of it.