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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Teen TV show spreading lies about the Morning-After Pill

ThinkProgress has the scoop on an upcoming episode of Veronica Mars - a very popular teen television show -- that is distorting the truth about Plan B or the Morning-After Pill. This kind of distortion puts women's lives at risk.
Tonight, the CW network will air an episode of Veronica Mars that is based on misleading right-wing claims about contraception. The show is about a young woman named Veronica Mars, who is both a college student and a part-time private investigator. This week, Veronica is hired by Bonnie, “a promiscuous classmate, to find out who secretly slipped her the morning after pill, causing her to have a miscarriage“:

The basis for tonight’s Veronica Mars episode is more than just an innocent factual error. It dangerously confuses the facts on women’s health and furthers incorrect right-wing claims.

The morning-after pill — also known as Plan B — is not an abortion drug. It is a form of emergency contraception that when “taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, the two-pill series can lower the risk of pregnancy by up to 89 percent.” It cannot cause a miscarriage. Plan B works only when taken before a woman becomes pregnant.

Join the chorus of voices on this issue and E-mail Paul Hewitt, CW’s Director of Publicity, and tell him that CW should correct its information on emergency contraception.

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