{"id":238445,"date":"2021-01-21T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=238445"},"modified":"2021-01-20T22:45:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:45:17","slug":"good-doctor-christian-mocked-refusal-participate-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/good-doctor-christian-mocked-refusal-participate-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Good Doctor’ episode portrays Christian mocked for refusal to participate in abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ABC’s medical drama “The Good Doctor” has faced its share of controversy for its portrayal of autism<\/a>, but it’s making waves now for how it has treated another contentious topic. In a recent episode, one of the residents is mocked and belittled for her objections to participating in an abortion.<\/p>\n

In the episode, the resident, Dr. Jordan Allen, was asked by the Chief of Surgery, Dr. Audrey Lim, to commit an abortion. Allen explained that, as a Christian, she opposed committing an abortion \u2014 yet Lim insisted that all her residents had to learn every procedure, including abortions. Another first-year resident offered to commit the abortion instead, to which Lim remarked, \u201cThat\u2019s the kind of ambition I like to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, Allen was pressured by another resident to commit the abortion, as not doing so would get her on Lim’s bad side \u2014 and potentially get her kicked out of the surgical program. Under Lim’s supervision, Allen inserted the speculum and dilated her cervix to begin the aspiration abortion, but found she could not go through with it. Lim took over, and then afterwards, severely mocked the idea of Allen’s “moral objections.”<\/p>\n