Thursday, September 4, 2014
The Mindy Project Won't Address Abortion -- But Shouldn't It?
Slate -- The XX Factor blog: The Mindy Project Really Needs an Abortion Storyline, by Amanda Marcotte:
Dr. Mindy Lahiri, the loveable lead played by Mindy Kaling in the sitcom The Mindy Project, is an OB-GYN. Her job functions as more than background decoration, as Jessica Goldstein of ThinkProgress notes. “One of the most standout things about The Mindy Project is the way its setting has allowed for stories that explicitly deal with women’s health,” she writes, citing storylines about birth control, condom distribution, and even The Talk.
But there's one aspect of reproductive health care that Kaling has no intention of touching on in the sitcom: abortion. “It would be demeaning to the topic to talk about it in a half-hour sitcom,” she recently said in the October issue of Flare.
Sorry, but that's total nonsense. . . .
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/reproductive_rights/2014/09/the-mindy-project-wont-address-abortion-but-shouldnt-it.html