Unbelievable! A character on my soap actually had an abortion.

[Kat45]

I can't remember if I've ever seen a character on a show have an abortion, especially not in the years since the religious right got big. Usually the character considering it either decides not to do it or conveniently loses the baby. I was shocked that they actually had a character do it. (Of course they didn't show her actually go to the clinic, just heading down there and back home again.)

But I suspect they're going to use this storyline as a major lesson on the horrors of abortion. Ever since the woman had the abortion, she's been totally devastated, feeling guilty, in emotional pain, regretting her decision, unable to stop crying. She's envisioning her boyfriend finding out about her pregnancy and abortion, and then hating her and never wanting anything to do with her again. I hope they don't have her kill herself.

[LisaLynne]

1. You're watching Days, right?

Come on, you can admit it. I watch it, too. ;)

Yeah, the head writer right now is VERY anti-abortion (and sexist, too, in case you hadn't noticed) so this story line will be nothing but a cautionary tale. Bleck.

[ronnykmarshall]

2. Is it Days?

I watch off and on.

[Kat45]

3. Yup, you caught me! It's Days.

:-) Who's the head writer now?

But on Passions, where someone was also considering abortion (since the dad is her half-brother,which she didn't know at the time), she decided she couldn't do something that terrible. So, since another guy is in love with her, she's trying to get him to make love with her right away so she can pass the baby off as his. No matter that this guy is white, and she and the other guy are black. LOL

[ronnykmarshall]

4. Who was it on Days?

Not Sami?

[Kat45]

7. No, it was Belle's friend Mimi.

Of course it wasn't a Brady or a Horton. lol

[Iris]

6. and lying about the parternity of your child is a whole lot better

than having an abortion, I guess. No matter that the fact that the woman is considering an abortion is because she didn't know about her genetic line.

That goes along with thinking adoption is worse than abortion.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I seem to remember that back in the early 70's Erica Kane on "All My

Children" was the first soap opera character to undergo an abortion (off camera of course). That was considered risque at the time.

[Kat45]

8. But the early '70s is a totally different world than today's.

Tolerance and open-mindedness were common. It was an extension of the sixties. And of course, the fundies hadn't risen to power as yet. I believe things were a lot more liberal back then. Sure, it was risque, but it wasn't the horror it would be today.