Characters on television who consider or obtain abortions don't reflect the demographics of American women who choose them or their reasons for doing so, according to a recent analysis from researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.The group looked at all depictions of abortion on U.S. television shows from 2005 to 2014. This included both network television shows and other distributors, including Netflix and Showtime. They found that TV characters who had abortions were younger, whiter, wealthier and less likely to be raising children than the average American woman who has an abortion."It's not that these portrayals are inaccurate. They're going to represent someone's reality," says Gretchen Sisson, a research sociologist with the UCSF research group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health. "But, in aggregate, they're not reflecting what's really happening in the real world. So, what we would like to see is a greater diversity of stories told on television"
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