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04-12-2018, 03:47 PM
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/karen-townsend/2018/04/11/empire-my-body-my-choice-trope-justifies-abortion
By Karen Townsend | April 11, 2018 11:34 PM EDT
In the April 11 episode of Fox’s Empire, titled “Sweet Sorrow,” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/68705-s04e12-sweet-sorrow/?do=getLastComment) Becky decides to get an abortion even though her baby’s father doesn’t want her to do so. She justifies her selfish decision by using the same old tired trope that generations of feminists have used – "my body, my choice."
The storyline starts off with Becky (Gabourey Sidibe) telling Jamal Lyons (Jussie Smollett) that she has decided to “terminate” when he asks how she is doing. To his credit, Jamal lets her know that he doesn’t agree with her not telling the baby’s father – a gospel singer – about the pregnancy or the abortion, either.
By Karen Townsend | April 11, 2018 11:34 PM EDT
In the April 11 episode of Fox’s Empire, titled “Sweet Sorrow,” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/68705-s04e12-sweet-sorrow/?do=getLastComment) Becky decides to get an abortion even though her baby’s father doesn’t want her to do so. She justifies her selfish decision by using the same old tired trope that generations of feminists have used – "my body, my choice."
The storyline starts off with Becky (Gabourey Sidibe) telling Jamal Lyons (Jussie Smollett) that she has decided to “terminate” when he asks how she is doing. To his credit, Jamal lets her know that he doesn’t agree with her not telling the baby’s father – a gospel singer – about the pregnancy or the abortion, either.