Oh, I didn't read that, Cashmere, but yes! The lazy writing totally pissed me off. The girl Veronica helped this week was slipped RU-486, which is the abortion pill. One of the reasons Plan B aka the morning after pill gets quite exactly so much flak as it does, is because people confuse it with RU-486.
They won't even give you RU-486 unless you are confirmed pregnant. The morning after pill is simply plan B contraception, which won't cause an abortion. Plan B works by preventing ovulation -- it is just oral birth control in a different concentration (although it may prevent implantation and that is a more important line for some people than for others).
I can't remember: did they call it the Morning After pill in the show? I know it's in the title -- but lots of people don't know the titles of tv episodes.
One of the reasons Plan B aka the morning after pill gets quite exactly so much flak as it does, is because people confuse it with RU-486.
Perzactly! And there is some follow up with RU-486 because of the nature of the procedure. If the pills (there is a combination with this, too) don't work, they have to do a surgical abortion, so it's not like taking a fucking Flinstone vitamin.
I have hot buttons but I think I should watch the ep before I start unloading criticism.
No.
But the CW\'s promotional material did. From the Feministing article:
The CW network\'s promotional material said:
Veronica is hired by Bonnie, a promiscuous classmate, to find out who secretly slipped her the morning after pill, causing her to have a miscarriage.
That's what it said on my tv's digital guide.
They were pretty consistent about calling it RU-486 during the episode. I think the problem has to be with the folks who wrote the promotional material not knowing the difference.
...but I thought the CW was hip to women's issues, like what kind of underwear girls should wear and whether Veronica really loves Logan or just like-loves Logan and what's up with Piz, anyway. At least, that's what I used to learn from the ubiquitious airie girls.
Does the disappearance of the airie girls (much as I'd like to think that it could only be a good thing) mean that the CW has lost one of their major sponsors?
the aerie girls were only slated to do their inane babble for the first mystery arc. i have no idea if that means that AE is or isn't still a sponsor.
