To add on to what Rev said, I was watching a recent Russian TV series set right around Stalin's death (Оттепель), and was struck by how the two abortions on the show were handled. For the first, everyone involved was extremely matter-of-fact about it, and the big "drama" of the scene was that the woman's ex husband promised he'd pick her up by car after the procedure, but forgot about it and she had to go by metro. In the second, they showed the woman go to the doctor for a checkup (she's kinda young and naive and didn't get that she was pregnant), and the nurses slut shamed her a bit for getting knocked up without being married, but were extremely casual about asking if she wanted to get an abortion. Obviously this is just a TV series, but watching it I realized I couldn't really remember any American TV series handling abortion so matter of factly - especially one set in the 50s.
To add on to what Rev said, I was watching a recent Russian TV series set right around Stalin's death (Оттепель), and was struck by how the two abortions on the show were handled. For the first, everyone involved was extremely matter-of-fact about it, and the big "drama" of the scene was that the woman's ex husband promised he'd pick her up by car after the procedure, but forgot about it and she had to go by metro. In the second, they showed the woman go to the doctor for a checkup (she's kinda young and naive and didn't get that she was pregnant), and the nurses slut shamed her a bit for getting knocked up without being married, but were extremely casual about asking if she wanted to get an abortion. Obviously this is just a TV series, but watching it I realized I couldn't really remember any American TV series handling abortion so matter of factly - especially one set in the 50s.