http://feministing.com/archives/006486.html

Last night's episode was a classic return to Veronica Mars scandalous hilarity! Right up there with getting raped in a drugged stupor by your boyfriend and some kid named Beaver who has the clap is a storyline about a forced abortion. And it was right out of the gate! Was it funny? yes. Did it have a nice twist where the TV-preacher actually was a nice guy who loved his daughter? Absolutely. Did it fail to pass the Feminist-science test? Nope.

Look -- shows have a responsibility to be entertaining, not to get medical information right. If anyone takes medical advice from a show, than that person deserves whatever disease they end up with. Especially if it's clamydia.

But what's more interesting is that this site -- which I keep thinking is FeminineFisting.com -- tries to claim that Veronica Mars should be more responsible in its reporting. Says the blog: "I realize it's just a crappy TV show. But this is the sort of propaganda the antis love to spread about abortion providers -- that they are so careless in their provision of abortion that any woman can waltz into a clinic, simply tell them she's pregnant, and walk out with RU486 in her pocket."

So, if anti-abortionists start using VM as a source, why would we be upset? It's just like this article about 24 I recently read, where right-wingers were using 24 as an example of what happens when we cut funding to fight terrorism.

It's called fiction. it's entertaining. sometimes it seems real, but it's not.