Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Season 1, the sitcom released a two-part episode in November 1972 that brought the topic of abortion into family homes.

Hollywood Does Abortion,' a new Tribeca documentary, argues 'Dirty Dancing,' 'Party of Five' and 'Sex and the City' hurt the ...

“When you were young, abortion was a dirty word; it’s not anymore,” actress Adrienne Barbeau’s character said in a seminal 1973 episode of Maude that aired two months prior to the Supreme Court’s ...

The first season of the classic sitcom Maude tackled a topic that not many would have dared to cover with its main characters. In the early '70s, certain topics like sex and abortion were considered ...