Abortion Onscreen Database
ANSIRH’s Abortion Onscreen Database is a listing of all film and television depictions available to viewers in the United States in which a character obtains an abortion, or discloses having one in the past. The database is updated monthly with any new plotlines. Is the database missing a depiction? Let us know. For other queries, please contact us.
To learn more about ANSIRH's Abortion Onscreen project, visit our Study page.
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Media type
- Film
- TV
Genre
- Action
- Adventure
- Animated
- Comedy
- Comedy-drama
- Crime
- Drama
- Fantasy
- Historical
- Horror
- Legal
- Medical
- Musical
- Mystery
- Romance
- Science Fiction
- SciFi
- Soap Opera
- Thriller
- Young Adult
Legality
- Illegal
- Legal
Character age
- Teen
- 20-29
- 30-39
- 40+
Character race
- American Indian or Alaska Native
- Asian or Pacific Islander
- Biracial/Multiracial
- Black
- Latinx
- Unknown
- White
Health outcome
- Adverse physical outcome
- Adverse psychological outcome
- Death
- None
- Positive health outcome
Location
- US
- Non-US
- Other
Time setting
- Present
- Past
- Future
- Fantasy present
