The most recent episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead included the use of morning after (abortion) pills, but the timing of when Lori decided to use them wasn’t correct at all.

The creative liberties taken on the show were called out by critics, and now producers are addressing the concerns.

From The Daily Beast:

All good questions. Did anybody ask AMC? Or the writers? According to Marnie Black, the network’s senior vice president of publicity, the network did not receive a single inquiry from a journalist.

Here is what Glen Mazzara, The Walking Dead’s executive producer and show runner, has to say about it (the show’s publicist emailed this to me):

“The producers and writers of The Walking Dead are fully aware that the morning-after pill would not induce an abortion or miscarriage. We exercised our artistic creative license to explore a storyline with one of our characters, not to make any pro-life or pro-choice political statement. We sincerely hope that people are not turning to the fictional world of The Walking Dead for accurate medical information.”

Mazzara’s statement could be dissatisfying for those among us who think that anything in culture, whether it’s fictional or not, is political, and for others among us who know that lots of people do extrapolate medical information from scripted television.

Did you think the liberties taken were too extreme considering the reality of the morning after pill? It did pull us out of the moment when we realized it didn’t make sense.