Sue me.
There is a memorable scene in Life on Mars that I thought I would share.
DI Sam Tyler, the man out of time, meets a British woman who has an affair with a Gujarati Indian from Uganda. He dies and she's left with a firebombed apartment (these white nationalist racists! you know...) and an unborn child.
At some point, Sam realises that the child is his own love from the future, Maya.
(This is the Beeb, remember.)
Layla takes a puff of her cigarette.
Sam: "I don't know if you realize, but that (pointing to the cigarette) is no good for her (pointing to the baby)."
"It's not a her. It's not a him. It's not even an it. It doesn't matter anyway."
"You're not gonna..." Sam is stunned and is barely able to breathe out the word "abortion."
Here's the BBC suggesting that abortion is a really bad and horrifying. That having a child, even in difficult circumstances could actually be a good thing.
Wonders, as they say...
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