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From the AmericanSexuality blog:
ThinkProgress has the scoop on an upcoming episode of Veronica Mars - a very popular teen television show — that is distorting the truth about Plan B or the Morning-After Pill. This kind of distortion puts women’s lives at risk.
Tonight, the CW network will air an episode of Veronica Mars that is based on misleading right-wing claims about contraception. The show is about a young woman named Veronica Mars, who is both a college student and a part-time private investigator. This week, 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“:The basis for tonight’s Veronica Mars episode is more than just an innocent factual error. It dangerously confuses the facts on women’s health and furthers incorrect right-wing claims.
The morning-after pill — also known as Plan B — is not an abortion drug. It is a form of emergency contraception that when “taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, the two-pill series can lower the risk of pregnancy by up to 89 percent.” It cannot cause a miscarriage. Plan B works only when taken before a woman becomes pregnant.
Join the chorus of voices on this issue and E-mail Paul Hewitt, CW’s Director of Publicity, and tell him that CW should correct its information on emergency contraception.
Interestingly enough, last weeks episode featured Veronica browsing for escorts on a site remarkably similar to real escort search engines.
She even had someone explain to her what GFE and PSE meant.
All the more reason to be outraged — this show is teaching young people about sex!
Its a real pity about the morning after pill errors. Until now VM has really addressed sex in a positive way - I thought the handling of the rape arc was done really well so to hear this is very dissappointing
Argh. There was nothing wrong with the Veronica Mars episode. The pill in the epi is RU-486 (stated several times in dialogue) which is, in fact, an abortion pill. This is completely different from Plan B, which is not mentioned once.