Via Scoop.it – Shezcrafti
In Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 9 issue #6, the comic takes an unexpected and controversial direction:
USA Today reports that in today’s issue of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 from Dark Horse Comics, Buffy shares her newly discovered status as a pregnant woman with her family and friends. She presumes that the vampire on-again-off-again lover Spike is the father, although there’s some plot-purposeful indecision about that. And hey, it may just turn out that there’s some mystical energy inside her or something. I’m sure there’s plenty of supernatural oddness to come. But more controversially, the comic explores her decision to have an abortion.
Joss Whedon defends the choice: “It’s not something we would ever take lightly, because you can’t. You don’t. It’s not an easy thing for anyone. Buffy was always about the arc of a life, and it wasn’t ever going to be one of those shows where they were perpetually in high school and never asked why. It was about change. So there’s never a time when Buffy’s life isn’t relevant.”
I applaud Joss Whedon for having the balls to tackle such an incredibly polarizing issue, but I question his decision to do it through Buffy. It changes how I feel about her character. For someone who has always been about saving lives, how could Buffy destroy the life inside her?
This is not a pro-life rant, and abortion is something that I don’t have strong feelings about one way or the other; it’s just not relevant to me. But it is something that seems totally out-of-character for Buffy. Of course we won’t know the outcome of Buffy’s delicate situation until the next issue, so I’ll reserve judgement until then.
How do you feel about it?
