Seinfeld had an episode that touched on abortion. The sitcom generally didn’t get political, which makes it more rewatchable than a lot of today’s fare, but it did mock opponents of abortion although it did also portray Elaine and militant abortion supporters as a bit unhinged.
Interestingly enough, Michael Richards, who played ‘Kramer’, described in his recent memoir, ‘Entrances and Exits’, being nearly aborted by his mother. His mother, who had gotten pregnant out of wedlock, had made a plan to travel to Mexico to obtain an abortion with another woman. That woman died during the abortion. Richards’ mother went to see some Catholic nuns who convinced the Italian-American actor’s mother to have the baby and give him up for adoption, which she did, but proved unable to go through with it and reclaimed him from the adoptive parents.
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