The title of Jennifer Grey’s recent memoir, Out of the Corner, is a play on the famous line from the late Patrick Swayze’s character in the movie they are both best known for, Dirty Dancing. Her character was nicknamed “Baby,” and he said, “No one puts Baby in a corner” to her family, who did just that. Of course, if you are a Generation Xer or older, I may not have to tell you this. The soundtrack roped many of us in.
It’s probably not shocking that Grey is speaking out in favor of legal abortion. The movie, after all, had a storyline about a botched illegal abortion. Grey considers the movie “feminist” in that way. She was so upset the day that SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade that she considered canceling a scheduled interview with the Los Angeles Times. But it’s what she said that might actually help get us out of the corner into which Roe v. Wade forced our discussions about abortion for a half century.
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