What’s sad is that the show was pretty good up until that part. They definitely captured an 80s vibe and there weren’t any digs on the right in general up until that abortion scene. I do recall them saying the character “Welfare Queen” was a “big F-you to the Republican party” ... can’t recall any trashing of Reagan outside of a joke about Nancy’s “Just Say No” campaign ... nothing “vicious” though).
What’s even more vulgar is that the scene was completely useless. They didn’t need to have her be pregnant. The character that was disgusted with her sleeping with her husband already couldn’t stand her. The guy that was with her at the clinic already had close relationship with her. It’s like the halfwit idiot that wrote the show threw it in there for shock value and nothing more.
It was totally pathetic and ruined an otherwise decent, retro show. I couldn’t even stand to watch the rest of it.
If it is a retro show I wonder if there was another reason to include this scene. The smug liberals feel that the masses need to “understand” the new morality. They may have felt that the audience they were attracting needed some time at re-education camp.