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I think the abortion episode highlights a point I was trying to make earlier about the problem of presentation of that subject in a sitcom. If it had been Adrienne Barbeau getting the abortion the episode would likely have been just as much hated initially by those of pro-life opinions but...

Give me a break. I would submit that Maude, a member of the 1% who is not suffering from poverty and is thus not incapable of providing for a child, who is not a victim of rape, incest or who's life is in danger, and who is not carrying a child suffering from some terminal disease is in...

That would seem to me an admission that the purpose of the episode was very much "about" abortion. Which puts us back where we started and the only way to go further would be to take the thread off-track in the worst way so I'll bow out on that subject.

I would submit there is no distinction whatsoever. And to say there was "no debate to present" is itself a political statement that the issue has no ethical and moral argument that needs to be discussed if you're going to go to the trouble of intruding this issue into your program.

I will take the view though that these topics are not the kind that should be part of a sitcom. Just like I think it was not appropriate for All In The Family to then give us the Edith gets raped episode later in its run. Leaving aside the matter of whether the episode became a political...