But you must be aware that, if Lori does proceed with the pregnancy, there will be people who claim that is a pro-life plot line.
Sure. That’s the risk that you take with this kind of stuff. But I think that avoiding that in order to avoid any kind of controversy is weak storytelling.
Well, I HATE Lori, and would enjoy the show more if her character were simply deleted from every script (and the comics, for that matters), but here's my two cents:
Lori's desperate and mistaken idea of what those pills do is not a political statement about abortion. It is the work of writers exploring the thought processes of a group of people pushed well beyond their psychological and physical limits by a persistent disaster. She thinks she wants an abortion, and her only option is this totally misguided use of morning after medication.
Television and film (not to mention literature and the press) have been mischaracterizing things like the nuances of the abortion debate for a long time. My opinion is that it is very obvious when a writer is motivated by politics, that's just not the case here.
I suspect that the real reason for all of this "controversy" is that the first post about this episode (anyone know who ran this "story" first?) got a ton of traffic, and websites saw blood in the water and piled on. It's a hit parade, nothing more.
Why aren't more people angry that Pat Robertson asked an interviewer on air if macaroni and cheese is "a black thing?"
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