I was around 9 years old when I first watched "Dirty Dancing" and at the time I had no idea what was happening with Penny / Abortion plotline. It was recently that I was watching an interview with Eleanor Bergstein the screenwriter and she talked about how studios wanted her to take that out, but she specifically wrote the story in such a way that the Abortion couldn't be edited, it was a vital part of the plot. I was in my 20's when I watched "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", by then I knew exactly what was happening when Jennifer Jason Leigh's character had an abortion because by that time I h
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