The administration of RU-486 (a Medical Abortion) is a lot more complex than simply ’slipping someone the pill’ & it causing a miscarriage- there are a few other chemicals that must be given to cause a medical abortion- so it actually looks like the writers goofed up, were sloppy in there research & won’t admit their mistake or flat out misled viewers with this issue. Note to writers- its only funny if its a clear flub that can be identified by the majority of the public.

#203 You are confusing what constitutes a pregnancy. Medically speaking, a pregnancy only occurs IF and ONLY IF implantation of an embyro occurs. The morning after pill (and birth control pills) does in some cases prevent implantation, but it does not end an established pregnancy (technically speaking). You may feel it ‘ends a life’ b/c it prevents the embryo (or human life as you may call it) from implanting, but to call it a pregnancy is factually wrong. The morning after pills stated use & actual purpose is to #1 prevent ovulation (which prevents the creation of an embryo (human life as you call it) & the morning after pill does this very thing in the vast majority of its uses. Indeed though, it can & does prevent an embryo (not a pregnancy) from implanting & starting a pregnancy, but to actually terminate a pregnancy(even a very early one) is incorrect. Once the embryo implants, it takes a lot more than a simple dose of progestin (morning after pill) to actually cause a miscarriage or abortion, and indeed even RU-486 (abortion pill) can not single handedly cause an abortion in most cases & other chemicals & hormones must be involved.

I do not agree that natural deaths justify willful killing.

Since mifepristone, levonorgestrel, various other progestins, and estrogen progestin combinations have all been used as morning after pills, and “morning after” is not literal, since there may be a delay in the use of any of these pills, there seems to be not much, other than the personal sensitivities of the author, to inspire the protest against CW.
Killing humans is killing humans. Does it really matter when in the lifespan of the human organism that this killing occurs?

I think you two need to take a human anatomy class or at least pick up a book. There is not a single science book, biology book, human emryology book, ect. in existance that states that life begins anywhere but at conception. This is scientific fact and Wikipedia hardly counts as a scholarly source; anyone can write or edit an article on there. Find me an actual science text book that states life begins elsewhere but at conception. If you are arguing against scientific fact, which you are, then you are arguing from a completely arbitrary definition of life that you have made up yourself to defend taking that life.

And Zooey, don’t give me that b.s. about not caring about women. To qoute flyers and a sweatshirt a friend of mine made, “Call me an extremist, but I think dismembering babies is wrong”. I DO care about women, which is why I think they deserve better than a dismembered baby and the emotional and physical damage abortion does to the woman’s own body. I happen to believe that ALL human life is equal and valuable. Pretty horrible person, aren’t I?

Abortion does not make you un-pregnant; it makes you the mother of a dead child.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander – if organizations like ThinkProgress want others to correct misinformation, maybe you should try getting your own facts straight first, eh?

Brain dead, indeed.

Any young woman who watched the show would have been informed throughout that the pill that caused the termination of the pregnancy was RU-486. The error you report is in an episode description. Pre-air episode descriptions are misleading by their nature, particularly in a mystery show – else what is the point of watching the episodes. It seems extremely unlikely that any young woman is going to take medical advice from an episode description of an episode they don’t even watch.

You might want to update that update, Amanda: although the Bonnie character does state that she was given RU486, Veronica tells Keith mid-episode that Bonnie’s miscarrage was caused by “the morning-after pill”–so there’s a serious inconistency in the script that suggests that the writers don’t know the difference between the two. So it’s not just the CW promo materials that are to blame here; the writers messed up as well.

This is also incorrect. The dialogue is as follows:
VERONICA: No. No! Dad, no. I am not now, nor have I ever been, pregnant. I visited the clinic for a case. Someone slipped this girl RU-486, and it caused a miscarriage.

The “morning after pill” referred to in the title was not what was given, or said to be given, to a girl to cause the end of her pregnancy. It was the metaphorical pill Veronica needed to wipe out the image of her boyfriend together with a girl she hated. The fact that there was not such a pill ended her relationship with him.

Regarding my taste for dippy crime dramas, all I can say is that there’s a lot there that’s NOT dumb. Some of the dialog is VERY funny, and there are some great complexities in the plot – usually two or three issues to solve, typically a small one per show and one or two that span weeks or the whole season. The relationships aren’t totally idiotic and the characters are only slightly one-dimensional.

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1. I’m going to laugh if the episode synopsis was simply written wrong (Amanda, next time make sure the episode actually airs before you do a post like this).

And then:

UPDATE: In tonight’s episode, Bonnie makes clear that a friend slipped her RU-486, the abortion pill. But as of the show’s airing, CW’s website still lists the morning after pill as the cause of the character’s miscarriage.

Ahahahahahaha!

Have you learned your lesson now, Amanda? Looks like who ever is manning the CW website is just about as incompetent as Amanda.

Whattaya say? We’ll even pass the hat, and buy your ticket.

If you’re going to write an article about it, at least get your facts straight.

I couldn’t have said it better, teacher!