Post by Teddy Bear on Feb 19, 2013 18:19:13 GMT
Viewers’ anger at ‘graphic’ Call the Midwife scene that showed a backstreet abortion before the watershed
A BBC spokesman said: ‘Call The Midwife is inspired by the reality of East End life in the 1950s and prior to the legalisation of abortion, back street terminations were a documented phenomenon.
‘Call The Midwife has never shied away from the tough conditions and difficult decisions made by pregnant women throughout this era and the series has become a critical and popular success thanks to its frank and honest approach.’
But no response or acknowledgement to why it was deemed necessary to put this kind of scene where children would also be watching it.
If only many at the BBC would have undergone a similar ‘surgery’ before their birth.