Long before Pam Grier’s Kit had her off-screen abortion was Bea Arthur’s character on “Maude.”
In 1972 Maude was the first main character on primetime television to have an off-screen abortion, perKQED.
But according toScientific American, a pre-Roe method may help change the conversation.

This includes saturating the knowledge pool about abortion with misinformation, whichresearchhas continuously found proof of.
Why someone is choosing to have an abortion is a privatemedicaldecision between the patient and their provider.
In June, things got worse whenDobbs v. Jackson Health Organizationrolled back federal protections for abortion.

The treatment plan is actually from before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion.
Today’s version of “menstrual extraction” are abortion pills rebranded as “period pills.”


