A not so special episode: laughing at abortion on television

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Critical Studies in Media Communication Pub Date : 2022-07-21 DOI:10.1080/15295036.2022.2099562

Corinne Weinstein

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has led many states to ban or severely limit abortion access, leaving women seeking reproductive healthcare more vulnerable than they have been in decades, especially marginalized women. Legal restrictions, alongside socioeconomic barriers and cultural stigmas around abortion, are reinforced by media representations that depict abortion as dramatic and solemn, and women who obtain abortions in negative terms. Since 2015, depictions of abortion on television have increased significantly, including on comedic television, which had rarely addressed the topic in years prior. The following article explores how 11 recent comedy television programs have chosen to tell stories about a major character obtaining an abortion and considers what these stories may have to offer in applying comedy to a social issue that has typically been treated with solemnity by the media.

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一个不太特别的插曲:在电视上嘲笑堕胎

最高法院推翻罗伊诉韦德案的决定导致许多州禁止或严格限制堕胎，使寻求生殖保健的妇女比几十年来更加脆弱，特别是边缘化妇女。媒体将堕胎描绘成戏剧性和庄严的场面，并对接受堕胎的妇女进行负面描述，从而强化了围绕堕胎的法律限制、社会经济障碍和文化污名。自2015年以来，电视上对堕胎的描述显著增加，包括在喜剧电视上，这些电视在几年前很少涉及这个话题。下面的文章探讨了最近的11个喜剧电视节目是如何选择讲述一个主要人物堕胎的故事的，并思考了这些故事在将喜剧运用到一个通常被媒体严肃对待的社会问题上可能会提供什么。

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CSMC publishes original scholarship in mediated and mass communication from a cultural studies and/or critical perspective. It particularly welcomes submissions that enrich debates among various critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints. CSMC takes an inclusive view of media and welcomes scholarship on topics such as • media audiences • representations • institutions • digital technologies • social media • gaming • professional practices and ethics • production studies • media history • political economy. CSMC publishes scholarship about media audiences, representations, institutions, technologies, and professional practices. It includes work in history, political economy, critical philosophy, race and feminist theorizing, rhetorical and media criticism, and literary theory. It takes an inclusive view of media, including newspapers, magazines and other forms of print, cable, radio, television, film, and new media technologies such as the Internet.