Part I: There’s No Going Back
Chapter 1. “Is That a Test from the Supermarket?”:How the Home Pregnancy Test Changed the Representation of Abortion in American Television and Film
Karen Weingarten
Chapter 2. “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor”: Debating Reproductive Rights in 1960s Television Dramas
Caryn Murphy
Chapter 3. What Post-Roe America Can Learn from the Role of Social Media in the Repeal of Ireland’s Eighth Amendment
Kelli Maloy
Part II: Creating Space for Alternative Narratives
Chapter 4. Abortion Politics and the Dystopic Imagination
Heather Latimer
Chapter 5. Performing Endurance: The Labors of Abortion Access
Jaime Leigh Gray
Chapter 6. “I’m Offended by All the Supposed-to’s:” HBOs Pro-Choice Influence
Laura S. Witherington
Chapter 7. “I Gave Her Life”: Black Women, Abortion, and Healing in Brit Bennett’s The Mothers
Patrick S. Allen
Part III: Call to Action
Chapter 8. When Stories Are All We Have: The Role of Television in a Future in Which Abortion is Illegal
Steph Herold and Gretchen Sisson
Chapter 9. The Abortion Pill and Other Myths: Medication Abortion on Screen
Cordelia Freeman
Chapter 10. “Abortion is a Mothering Decision”: How Television Can Challenge the Good/Bad Dichotomy
Brenda Boudreau
Chapter 11. “No Bigger than a Baby Bird”: Narrating Prochoice Fetal Materiality
Jeannie Ludlow