Viewers of Ginny & Georgia, Netflix’s soapy TV show about a young mom and her teenage daughter, likely aren’t watching the show for anything profound. But it’s too bad that despite its subtle pro-life premise — after a teenage pregnancy, Georgia begins the show as a single mom raising two children on her own  — the show is now pushing pro-abortion propaganda on its viewers.

In season three, 16-year-old Ginny becomes pregnant after a fling with a boy from her poetry class. Her hook-up’s reaction to the news is underwhelming, to say the least. “That’s wild, uh, s***, sorry. I have to go,” he says, adding unhelpfully, “I’ll text you. S***. Sorry.”

When she tearfully tells her mom, Georgia encourages her to do whatever she feels is best for her, adding that she has a bright future ahead, echoing what her poetry teacher said just a few scenes earlier. This underscores the discouraging message that a baby would cut short Ginny’s potential.

“I can’t tell you what to do,” her mom says. “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me. You and your brother. I don’t regret having you for one second. You’re my air; you’re my purpose. I don’t know who I am without you. But you changed my life. My life became about you. And that was OK, that was good for me, but you’re different.”

Georgia adds that she wants Ginny to have the best life and a baby is “sacrifice.”

After this monologue, Ginny unsurprisingly decides to go ahead with an abortion.

It’s clear the show intends to paint the process and its enablers as sympathetic. Ginny’s mom immediately makes an appointment at a clinic, where the doctor asks Ginny if she’s still deciding, suggesting that they can discuss her options. When Ginny says she’s sure about her decision, the doctor conducts an ultrasound and provides Ginny with abortion pills.

Yet strangely, the scene ends with the doctor telling Ginny, “Cramping will start in about an hour,” and abruptly leaving. Of course, there is no mention of the potential for hemorrhaging, how great the pain will be, or the risk of infection.

Ginny is later shown recovering on the couch and in bed, where her mom and her biological father assure her that she has done nothing wrong. The show can see the irony in the contrast between Georgia’s and Ginny’s choices, but it attempts to clear that up with a little moral relativism.

“If mom did this, then I wouldn’t be here,” Ginny says.

“That was her choice,” Ginny’s father responds. “You’re a different person, and you did what was right for you.”

Unsurprisingly, media outlets and cast members praised the abortion storyline. Cosmopolitan writes of the scenario, “It is made clear that Ginny has not done anything wrong – that she did what she felt was right to her,” adding, “What makes this storyline so powerful is that it does not attempt to moralise or present any scenario as more correct than another.”

Brianne Howey, the actress who plays Georgia, called it “gorgeous.” Antonia Gentry, who plays Ginny, said, “On a personal level, I am for women having choices over their bodies. So to include this storyline this season, I am glad that we were able to do it in a way that didn’t really complicate that notion.”

Abortion storylines on screen, often created in conjunction with Planned Parenthood, frequently follow a similar script. Abortion is merely a choice; a woman is entitled to make whatever decision feels right for her, and that decision should be easy to make a reality.

Sadly, the truth is that many women feel pressured into the decision to pursue abortion, and it could be the very availability of “choice” that makes them feel guilty for potentially burdening others with the consequences of the seemingly more difficult decision to continue the pregnancy.

What Ginny really needed from her parents was enthusiastic support in helping her raise, or even put up for adoption, her child. Instead, all she got was the hollow advice to follow her heart.