Salon.com > jason katims http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Parenthood” bravely tackles abortion http://www.salon.com/2013/01/09/parenthood_takes_on_abortion/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/09/parenthood_takes_on_abortion/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13165795 Because they happen with such rarity, I feel obliged to take note when they do: There was an abortion on prime-time television last night. On “Parenthood,” shy, quiet high-schooler Drew and his increasingly manly eyebrows found out that his girlfriend Amy was pregnant. Amy decided to have an abortion, Drew decided to be supportive even though a part of him, he tearfully confessed to his sister, wanted to keep it. Amy went through with her plan and the episode ended with Drew sobbing in his mother’s arms. It was all very quiet and understated — no histrionics, no one had a last-minute change of heart. (Bill O'Reilly, who fulminated that "the consequences were not shown" when the Drew and Amy first had sex, many episodes ago, can now fulminate about those consequences.)

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