I lost 65 pounds on WW, had a baby, lost that weight, and have been really happy since. It took me two years to lose the 65, and then about 8 months to lose the baby weight, but what’s important is that I’ve been able to maintain it!

I guess Walking Dead and Black Mirror are the only two shows that have actually conflated the morning after/emergency contraception pill and the “abortion pill.”

Actually it is when it stays on point and doesn’t overly conflate politically charged issues that have a direct impact on my health.

Generally speaking, I feel as though I got more shit during the Bush years in Germany than so far during the Trump years in England, BUT at that time I was younger and didn’t have children so maybe the people I encounter now are different.

Actually, from British people I am usually met with a shrug and a “well, we did do Brexit..”

A high school nurse would know that an EC pill does not cause abortion. Also, an EC pill would not show up in a blood test. The nurse said “don’t worry you are not pregnant anymore” meaning the girl had been pregnant at some time in the future.

I admire your optimism of “things have to get absolutely fucking terrible before they can - and will - get better!”

I truly think this is a generational stain

I (an American) live in the U.K. and we had some German neighbors after the election who gave my partner a long lecture about Hitler’s rise to power.

It doesn’t effect policy that has an impact on women’s lives in reality the same way the conflation of contraception and abortion does.

Yes.

Most women are fully conscious during c-section these days.

The “C” in EC stands for “contraception.” Contraception is defined as “the deliberate use of artificial methods or other techniques to prevent pregnancy as a consequence of sexual intercourse.”

They don’t watch Black Mirror to get medical advice about abortion, however as a plot device people will remember it and conflate the two. A similar occurrence happened when Walking Dead did something very similar (also occurring in a fictional dystopian universe).

A fictional universe based and supposedly not too far off from our own...

You can actually waltz into a Walgreens and get a Plan-B, because Plan B is available over the counter. It prevents contraception by providing a large dose of levonorgestrel, the hormone used in most birth control pills within 72 hours of unprotected sex.

Plan B is not an abortion pill. It is emergency contraception meant to block conception within 72 hours of unprotected sex. If conception has occurred, it will not terminate a pregnancy.

You’re much more charitable than I am. She said she felt guilty because she “just couldn’t push” anymore. I think there are a lot of ways they could have played that without bringing c-sections into it and it set the stage for her being a stereotypically bad mother.

It perpetuates misinformation which serves to strip away women’s rights when writers use this “abortion pill” trope.

I’ve only watched through Crocodile so far, but so far I’ve liked the USS Callister the best, but I’m a huge sci-fi nerd.