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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can they possibly hire a consultant who knows something about childbirth? With Janine, they cut that cord without clamping it. Now, she’s in labor surrounded by blood soaked sheets—that’s not normal and would mean an abruption or serious complication. It’s a show about a childbirth centered culture so you think they’d invest in someone to get the childbirth part remotely correct. [/quote]

I didn't think it looked like that much blood. [/quote]

Most of the bleeding in childbirth happens in the immediate postpartum, right after the placenta. I’m a midwife and if I had a client lying in a pool
of blood like that, I’d think her placenta was abrupting or her uterus was rupturing. [/quote]

+1. There definitely shouldn't be a pool.of blood during the first stage of labor. Some bleeding in the 2nd stage is possible if you are tearing as the baby comes out. But when I saw that pool of blood, I definitely thought she was bleeding out. Not sure how she even got outside, then back inside again.

[b]She should have shot the Waterfords[/b] and stolen.their IDs and car and hightailed it out of there. No one else even knew she was missing....[/quote]

Yeah but I think that was kind of the point right, that she couldn't shoot them because she's not a murderer. It's not just circumstance that made the Waterfords evil, they're really evil. I thought it went kind of nicely with the radio thing about America being still here. And ties nicely I think also to the refugee Moira met with who talked about murdering gay men and with Ofglen murdering Marisa Tomei and other Ofglen bombing the center. The lines are really blurry and people make interesting choices with real consequences for thier humanity. [/quote]

I guess, but would you consider the people who killed Bin Laden, or bombed Auschwitz (to help liberate it), or killed other masterminds of torture and mass murder to be a murderer or a hero? Sometimes it is necessary to kill a few people in order to save many. The Waterfords were not just participants in Gilead, they helped to bring it about and maintain it as well as participate in or enable thousands of rapes and murders of innocent people. Shooting them would not just have been for the personal benefit of June but for the benefit of many people and potentially the prevention of future rapes and murders of other innocent victims. Morality isn't black and white, but in this instance, murdering two people who have and will continue to harm many others would have been a humanitarian effort.

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