https://popculturereferences.com/the-abortion-plotline-in-dirty-dancing-was-included-specifically-for-today/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Tue, 11 Oct 2022 02:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://popculturereferences.com/the-abortion-plotline-in-dirty-dancing-was-included-specifically-for-today/#comment-5784 Tue, 11 Oct 2022 02:19:34 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=2512#comment-5784 The thing is that attitudes likely HAVE actually changed about abortion in America, with about 61% support it in all or most cases today. But one party has hijacked the issue to play to their extremist base, making laws, and UNmaking 50 year old decisions of the highest court in the country, all to curry favor with a minority of Americans. Eleanor Bergstein was right to be very concerned (more than many of us understood), but I don’t think quite for the reasons she says.

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