@Laila
I'm with you on this. Ekta is queen of regressive soap.
Her heroes and heroines will be shown using the latest laptop and mobile gadgets but she will not bother to constructively show any advancement in medical science. Except when it comes to her own version of state-of-the art plastic surgery whereby a human being can be completely altered.
In one case she will be ahead of scientific advances and in the other she will be completely behind.
It is the same old story in serial after EK serial: rape and pregnancy. Pregnancy does not have to follow rape if the morning after pill is taken within 72 hours. That is a long time in which a girl can think of possible repercussions, including HIV these days.
But no, the EK heroine is innocence personified She will not even think that pregnancy is a possible outcome of sexual intercourse.
And when she does get pregnant, she will not even for a moment suspect that it could be the rapist's child. An outsider has to taunt her. for her to be duly shocked
Of course, all EK heroines get pregnant the very first time they have had intercourse, and more so if they are unmarried or have been taken against their will.
Bollywood is experimenting so much. Ekta has turned the clock back on TV soaps with a vengeance.
The other thing I hate is stripping cultures of their diversity. Every EK heroine, from J&K to Kanyakumari, from Gujarat to West Bengal will wear the sindoor and the trademark mile-long mangalsutra ( which is not the custom in many regions of India).
Talking of the morning after pill, does conception not happen at the time of coitus? If so, the pill does destroy life -- if the argument is that life starts at conception.
I'm not a medical student but it beats my understanding that conception happens after intercourse (how?), so the pill is a contraceptive that prevents conception.
I'm willing to be educated on this.
I wonder if people here condone children born of incest. Because the same argument -- that a foetus is human -- applies here.
People keep talking about the right of the child. If I were a child born of rape or worse of incest, I would hate myself and my mother. Why is my opinion and whether I want to come into this world in these circumstances, not taken as relevant?