Actually, Laura being the one to call for the termination was also part of my original rant - I deleted it because I knew I wasn't going to watch the episode, and was thus it was more more a critique of the SciFi Channel's trailer-makers for managing to make the whole abortion plot fit into a predictable nutshell within a ten-second trailer. Woman Wants to Terminate, Man Wants to Preserve! Since I felt fairly certain the actual episode wasn't likely to play out that way, I omitted the mention. So I'm glad to hear that she made the final call on the subject as well, rather than setting it up as a man-vs.-woman construction, which is totally what the trailer made it look like, and guh, gender politics light my hair on fire.
Adama tries to undercut what he is about to do and ease his conscience by refering to the fetus as a Cylon, choosing to ignore that the child is half human.
Interesting. So it sounds like the stem cell issue finally brought the human-not human them back to the front. I was thinking that was one way out of this whole morass, hitting the Star Trek-style Sentient Beings Have a Right to Life button, but I thought that seemed like an unlikely turn for BSG.
I'm not sure why Sharon's child poses a threat to the fleet. Aren't they already regularly under attack?
Really! Honestly, about the only theory I could formulize at this point is that if it's something the Cylons want, It's Probably Bad, and part of their master plan. So maybe Roslin was playing by those rules, figuring to deny the Cylons something they Want... although then that begs the question of why the human fleet is being attacked while Pregnant Sharon is still aboard, if they're so concerned with the survival of her baby? But then I shouldn't theorize, being as far behind as I am with the plot stuff.
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Adama tries to undercut what he is about to do and ease his conscience by refering to the fetus as a Cylon, choosing to ignore that the child is half human.
Interesting. So it sounds like the stem cell issue finally brought the human-not human them back to the front. I was thinking that was one way out of this whole morass, hitting the Star Trek-style Sentient Beings Have a Right to Life button, but I thought that seemed like an unlikely turn for BSG.
I'm not sure why Sharon's child poses a threat to the fleet. Aren't they already regularly under attack?
Really! Honestly, about the only theory I could formulize at this point is that if it's something the Cylons want, It's Probably Bad, and part of their master plan. So maybe Roslin was playing by those rules, figuring to deny the Cylons something they Want... although then that begs the question of why the human fleet is being attacked while Pregnant Sharon is still aboard, if they're so concerned with the survival of her baby? But then I shouldn't theorize, being as far behind as I am with the plot stuff.