![]() Then there’s Patricia and Beth (Emily Kinney) who want gun training. They only laugh off Glenn and his awkward behaviour. Rick (Andre Lincoln) and Shane (Jon Bernthal) are busy coming up with plans. The titular secrets of this episode concern all the little quiet things Glenn is tasked with holding onto. She tells him to back off and he reluctantly agrees. Out by the fire, a less friendly conversation happens when Glenn confronts Lori once more. ![]() He quips that if she shoots him again she “ best pray” he dies. It’s a respectable moment, as Daryl admits to knowing she was “ protecting the group“. Resting in his tent, Daryl (Norman Reedus) gets an apology from Andrea (Laurie Holden). Around Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn) and T-Dog (Irone Singleton) he’s troubled and a bit obvious, but nothing comes of it. She begs him to keep it a secret, even with Glenn begging her not to make him keep it a secret. Now Glenn is also being told to keep quiet about it all by Maggie (Lauren Cohan). An ominous beginning to this one seeing Patricia with Carl and Lori right before. This is the same barn Glenn (Steven Yeun) discovered at the end of the previous episode, “Chupacabra”. ![]() ![]() Simultaneously, Patricia (Jane McNeill) break the legs of a chicken, throw it in a bag, then head down to the barn to feed it to a pack of walkers inside. Learn more about emergency contraception: Sign up for breaking news alerts, follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook.At the start of “Secrets”, we watch Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) and Carl (Chandler Riggs) together. As the ACLU continues to fight to improve access to contraception for women and couples, we are also fighting to give people accurate information about contraception - not information influenced by politics, religion, or belief (or zombies). Yes, this is a television show, and it isn’t real, but the misinformation about the morning-after-pill is very real. What it can do is prevent pregnancy if taken within 5 days of unprotected sex although the sooner it is taken the more likely it is to work. Lori is several weeks pregnant and the morning-after-pill can’t induce a miscarriage. The Walking Dead, is not doing its fans or themselves any favors by promoting false information. Aren’t they supposed to have fact checkers to catch this kind of thing? Emergency contraception prevents pregnancy and is especially useful in cases of unanticipated sexual activity, contraceptive failure, or sexual assault. There is considerable confusion about the difference between medication abortion and emergency contraception, and it was distressing to see this misunderstanding further spread by a show like The Walking Dead. Lori taking the morning-after-pill, commonly known as emergency contraception, to end her pregnancy by inducing abortion would be just as effective as cutting a zombie’s finger off to kill it. But what got many of the show’s fans in a tizzy the other night, tweeting and blogging about the episode’s ‘highly inaccurate’ story line? It wasn’t an argument over zombie kill tactics, or love-triangles, or if zombies like chicken (they do) - many fans were angry that the show’s female lead, Lori, took morning-after-pills so she could ‘give herself an abortion.’ As a zombie show, The Walking Dead deals with a few less-than-realistic storylines. The Walking Dead is a show on AMC that follows a group of Georgia residents trying to survive a post-zombie apocalypse.
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