Gayitri Ramesh’s Reviews > Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980 > Status Update

interesting that Rosemary’s Baby (book) was influenced by abortion regulations and how strongly opposed the Catholic church was to abortions, and even more interesting is the influence the film adaptation had on the public, New York went from strict abortion laws to being the first state to legalize abortion.

ten thousand women per year died of illegally performed abortions in 1965.. ten thousand women…

“In fact, these domestic horror films highlight the deep, thrumming interconnection between these three bodies of law: equal rights, reproductive rights, and the right to physical safety. In the worlds these films create, if you deny a woman any one of these, you deny them all, and, in doing so, you create horror.”