
Swayze’s book will give fans the chance to get the story of his battle with cancer in his own words, along with his take on his career and his love for his wife Niemi. While "Dirty Dancing" finds a happy ending for Penny in 1963, the future of abortion rights for many Americans today is becoming increasingly uncertain.The late Patrick Swayze‘s tell-all memoir will hit stores just two weeks after he lost his battle with cancer on September 14th, 2009 in Los Angeles at the age of 57. Wade puts everyone's reproductive rights in jeopardy. Right now, abortion is still legal, but the dismantling of Roe v.

Watching "Dirty Dancing" in 2022 is a reminder of how far reproductive rights have come - and the risks everyone faces if they're rolled back.
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That makes sense, since many in the Jewish community believe that Judaism supports full abortion access.
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Jewish people are overwhelmingly pro choice, according to data from the Pew Research Center: 83 percent of people who identify as Jewish believe abortion should be "legal in all/most cases." That's higher than all other religious groups and people who are religiously unaffiliated.

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The resort they visit is based on many actual resorts in the Catskills that flourished as vacation havens for Jewish families in the mid-20th century, earning the area the moniker "The Borscht Belt." Bergstein, who is Jewish, has said that she based the movie on her experiences vacationing at those types of resorts with her family. Baby and her family aren't explicitly Jewish in the film, but it's certainly implied.

There's another reason it makes sense for the movie to have a pro-abortion, pro-reproductive rights plot. In April, she held a fundraiser for an abortion fund. But if you make a movie in color with pretty people and music and sensual dancing and a beautiful, blond young girl with a face like a delicate princess having no choices and screaming in a hallway under a dirty knife - maybe you'll change somebody's mind about what they assumed before." Bergstein remains a staunch supporter of abortion rights. She continued, "I think you can make a brilliant black-and-white documentary abortion, and everyone who sees it probably agrees with you before the first frame. Writer Eleanor Bergstein spoke to the Greenwich International Film Festival in March about her decision to include the plot line in the movie: "I had little hope that anyone would see the movie and even less hope that it would influence anyone - but just in case, I put in the things that were important to me. Wade decision and seven years after the movie takes place. In real life, abortion was legalized in New York in 1970, three years before the Roe v. Baby and Johnny briefly dance, but she feels like he sees right through her.ĭIRTY DANCING, Jerry Orbach, Jennifer Grey, 1987, (c)Vestron Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

There, she meets Johnny (Patrick Swayze) and Penny (Cynthia Rhodes), the resort's main dancers. One night, she follows Billy (Neal Jones) to the staff cabins, where the more blue-collar workers gather to party when their work is done. Her family is spending the summer at the Kellerman's resort in the Catskills in upstate New York, and Baby feels a bit like an outsider among the other guests - who are mostly older - and among the Ivy League waitstaff, who flirt with all the guests' daughters. Jake and Marjorie Houseman (Jerry Orbach and Kelly Bishop). Grey plays Baby (her real name is Frances, but no one calls her that), the eldest daughter of Dr. Everyone remembers Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze's crackling chemistry and incredibly romantic dancing - and, of course, the famous line "No one puts Baby in a corner." But you might have forgotten that the story's inciting incident involves an unplanned pregnancy, an illegal abortion, and a poignant message about the importance of reproductive rights. If you don't rewatch "Dirty Dancing" every time it's on Bravo (like I do), your memories of the film might be a bit hazy. Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing
