Marvel’s First Abortion

THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’

Given the GOP’s anti-abortion rhetoric—as well as Friday’s shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado—the abortion storyline in Netflix’s ‘Jessica Jones’ seems all too timely.

Published Nov. 28 2015 2:56AM EST

articles/2015/11/28/marvel-s-first-abortion/151127-allen-jessica-jones-tease_cgxk1j — Myles Aronowitz/Netflix

Last Thursday, Scandal’s Planned Parenthood episode showed Olivia Pope receiving a vacuum aspiration abortion. But last Friday, Marvel’s new Netflix series Jessica Jones depicted something even rarer: a medical

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Marvel’s First Abortion

Given the GOP’s anti-abortion rhetoric—as well as Friday’s shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado—the abortion storyline in Netflix’s ‘Jessica Jones’ seems all too timely.

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Samantha Allen