“Whedon’s talk of abortion being a ‘painful’ decision for young women may be true as far as it goes, but such rhetoric is often code for pro-choicers who really mean it’s too painful a decision for any of us judgmental anti-choice yahoos to intrude on,” wrote Calvin Freiburger in a post entitled “Buffy the Unborn Slayer” on Live Action, which describes itself as” a youth led movement dedicated to building a culture of life and ending abortion, the greatest human rights injustice of our time”. Expressing the hope that Buffy won’t actually go through with the abortion, Freiburger added: “While I never watched Buffy myself, I did watch Whedon’s short-lived sci-fi series Firefly, a couple episodes of which indicate Whedon has a rather lax view of sexual mores.”
(Rather lax view of sexual mores. Which, I think, is a code for anti-choice people who really mean “that slut, she deserves it”.)
