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Steph Herold '09 Writes About On-Screen Abortion Stories in The New York Times
July 27, 2022
Steph Herold '09, who is a researcher for , a program of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote a piece for The New York Times about how abortion is represented on television and in film and the impact of that representation.
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"Onscreen depictions of abortion often the medical risk associated with it, overemphasizing serious complications that are extremely rare or nonexistent in real life, like infertility, mental illness and death."
Herold first connected with reproductive justice work as an intern with the Women鈥檚 Medical Fund (now called the ) through 魅影直播's Community Based Work Study program and found a calling that has guided her career since.