What I Could Never Forget About Dirty Dancing's Famous Abortion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : If the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision goes as all signs indicate it will, this sort of fundraising will only grow more important -- as will seeing the realities of paying for abortion depicted on screen.
43% : She's a researcher who works on the Abortion Onscreen Database, a project at the University of California, San Francisco that collects examples of media depictions of abortion.
43% : For the record, the mean cost for a medication or aspiration abortion is around $500 in the United States today.
41% : It's rare that movies discuss abortion at all, and among films that do, Dirty Dancing stands out in several ways, one of which is its inclusion of that all-important $250 figure.
41% : They wanted to be accurate to the period, but the secrecy surrounding abortion at the time and lack of straightforward records made it difficult to determine an exact figure.
40% : "As abortion is recriminalized, the cost of an abortion is going to likely go up, not because the procedure will be more expensive but because people will have to travel further and take more time off of work and stay longer in hotels," Herold said.
35% : But in the last few weeks, a leaked Supreme Court opinion revealing that Roe v. Wade may soon be overturned has reminded more than a few people that abortion also plays a major role in Dirty Dancing's plot.
32% : Is it because their insurance doesn't cover abortion?" We can add to the list of movies that do talk about the cost this year's Happening, a French film set, just like Dirty Dancing, in 1963, in which a literature student named Anne must come up with money for an illegal abortion.

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