First Abortion in Television History On 'Another World' 48 Years Ago This Week

Susan Trustman played Pat Matthews on Anolther 
World in 1964.

With the Democratic National Convention making headlines, talk of abortion and a woman's right to choose has been featured heavily on primetime television this week. But it was on a daytime soap opera where the first abortion story in television history was told.

Another World's 1964 story reached a climax 48 years ago this week when Pat Matthews traveled to New York with her boyfriend, Tom Baxter (Nicholas Pryor), to have an illegal abortion. The NBC soap was written by Irna Phillips and Bill Bell at the time under executive producer Allen Potter.