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In portraying a teenage character’s decision to have an abortion, the NBC show “Friday Night Lights” “tackled the very forces that have so effectively stifled discussion of abortion as a viable option for women, both on TV and real life,” Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup writes in an opinion piece in The Nation…

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