n the course of AMC’s successful post-apocalyptic zombie drama, Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies)—one of the survivors—has had sex with two men, one of whom is her husband. She has found out she is pregnant and, because they’re in zombie hell, decides to end the pregnancy. In the recent Season 2 episode in question, she takes a bunch of tablets labeled “morning-after pills.” But, like so many TV characters before her when faced with this decision, she changes her mind and throws them up. (She can form a club with Andrea from Beverly Hills, 90210, Miranda from Sex and the City, Ryan’s girlfriend Theresa on The O.C., and many others.)
What got the Internet upset is the misinformation the show spread by showing Lori taking a handful of morning-after pills when she is weeks' pregnant with the aim to no longer be pregnant. The Walking Dead is adding to the confusion between emergency contraception such as Plan B (which is, indeed, a morning-after pill, and prevents a woman’s egg from being fertilized) and RU-486 (which is administered by doctors and does cause abortion).
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Yeah, I can see Lori not knowing that the morning after pill doesn't work like that. (Although, you think she'd be able to tell by what it's called.)
ReplyDeleteI still think she should abort. It's a zombie apocalypse, and the decision would be understandable!
I agree. But I sort of see it as being an act of desperation, like she was willing to try anything to abort the baby without actually aborting the baby. Or perhaps severely hurting herself to abort the baby. Either way, she wasn't in a really good state of mind.
ReplyDeleteHey, all she needs to do is attend an Occupy Wall Street protest and a couple of cops will kick her in the stomach and make her miscarry.
ReplyDeleteThat was such a non-issue to me. We never saw the actual list or note that Lori gave Glenn as far as I recall. She could have requested RU-486 and Maggie looked for it and got the "next best thing" being the morning after pill.
ReplyDeleteLori, then desperate to not have to worry about 1) bringing a baby into a zombie filled world and 2) not having to worry about who the father is, took the morning after pills as a last resort. Perfect desperation logic to me.
The whole idea of being upset about the misinformation is ludicrous!
It would be like complaining that their were better antibiotics for T-Dog's infected arm than what Daryl gave him. When you are desperate and don't have the option of going to a doctor or freshly stocked pharmacy you take what you can get. Period.
Oh, the world is in troube when people are taking medical advice from a post-apocalyptic zombie tv show.
ReplyDeleteI almost certain that when Glenn gave her the morning after pills he ask if they would even work? Lori said she was not sure
ReplyDeleteExactly my thoughts! Since when any sane person finds a zombie drama good enough to medical advice? It is the same kind of people that needs info when buying a oven "Do not use this appliance to dry your pet"...
ReplyDeleteA non issue. Next!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. I don't get all the hoopla over this. They even cited that it probably wouldn't work in the episode itself, I think when Glen asked her "Is that even going to work?"
ReplyDeletelmao.
ReplyDeletei don't really understand why this is upsetting when people / zombies have been split in two or decapitated!
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