Not sure I needed all those couples having sex at the end... sorry, that's not why I watch GA.
I think the topic of abortion's important, and it's even more important to address it in times like these where women's rights are challenged pretty much all over the world (not just the US). That's why I'd have wished for a more layered portrayal of the teenage pregnancy case. I mean the girl realizes she's late, has a pregnancy test... and practically right afterwards gets pills shoved into her hands. No time to think about her decision, frankly, no time to even make an informed decision. I realize she's scared, she's overwhelmed, but exactly because of that I'd have expected Addison to bringt some calm and rationality into the situation. But no, her agenda was teenage pregnancies and Roe vs Wade and backstreet abortions - but not this frightened girl. Granted, the girl probably would have stuck to her decision after calming down (and thinking about more than fish and her parents) - and that's completely okay. I'm bothered by the way this was handled, not by the outcome.
And I'm not sure, but isn't Washington a blue state (and Californa as well, where Addison comes from)? Shouldn't she focus on states where abortion's actually at risk to be or already widely restricted (i.e. red states)? Sex Ed is important, in general. But having Addison appear in Seattle for a couple of ads is just very contrived - although I like seeing her.
In general, addressing such controversial topics works better if you don't use the whole cast to preach one message - but if you actually set up a discussion. Make someone in the cast take the opposite side - or even being on the fence on the topic. But we need a serious discussion (on this and several other topics), not a sermon.
Love Bailey going back to teaching and doing what she loves. Right move here.
And the grandmother suffering from dementia... yawn didn't we cover this already ad nauseam with Meredith and Alice?
We sure didn’t need another episode of the entire cast virtue signaling on a specific topic. This show is almost dead, talking about politics takes the almost away. Sadly I can’t not finish a series, but I hope it’s going to end soon.
More virtue signalling crap from the lefty, woke U.S. TV networks. I guess the plethora of available contraceptives have all disappeared and whatever happened to safe sex? The bullshit brigade reign supreme
Just can’t stay out of politics so sad. I’m done with everything ABC.
I'm really disappointed with how preachy this episode was about the topic of abortion and abortion legislation. Unfortunately, it took a very sensitive, nuanced issue and browbeat the audience over the head with a particular viewpoint.
It's a viewpoint I happen to agree with (Grey's Anatomy isn't consistently pro individual rights), but that makes it all the worse: there's nothing more harmful to the right ideas than their bad defense.
This episode isn't going to convince anybody of anything, since, despite the show's general theme of the importance of empathy and human connection, they don't at all attempt to empathize with the people who believe that a fetus is a human life with rights (again, something I disagree with and which I think is objectively demonstrable). Instead, I fear it will embolden people who believe in abortion rights to be more preachy and callus with those who disagree. (And that is very ironic indeed.)
And even worse (or perhaps as an example of why a bad defense is the worst thing for the right ideas), they gave their opponents ammunition: The state of Washington already protects abortion explicitly, at least approximately on the same terms as Roe v Wade. The episode led a viewer to believe that one could only get something called a "medical abortion" because of the recent Supreme Court decision, which, to my understanding, isn't true. So anti-abortionists will be able to criticize the episode for being hyperbolic and misleading, thereby undermining the message the episode is trying to send.
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It was heavy handed as always but a very important topic to take a stance on.
Not sure why people are mentioning the last section being too hot and heavy. Grey's has always been like that :joy:. Hot people hooking up goes hand in hand with tragedy on this show.