On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Ed Dravecky <[email protected]> wrote: > > PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> But I think something else currently functions as the unseen thing on >> TV - abortion. This has been discussed at some length of course, but I >> think it is still true that few if any major tv characters have >> actually had an abortion since Maude. > > Just this summer, the female lead on "Defying Gravity" is shown > agonizing, in a future where abortion is unlawful, over whether to > terminate her unplanned pregnancy or remain in the astronaut corps. > She ultimately takes the pill and ends the pregnancy. Indeed, this is > a significant plot point that is referred to, sometimes indirectly, > throughout the (too short) run of the series.
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