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Buffy: But the fictional heroine - played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the TV series - is facing one of her biggest challenges yet |
She was the fresh-faced heroine of many a teenaged boy.
Pretty, at high school, dealing with the typical problems of growing up - albeit a Chosen One with a mean line in killing demons - Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the attractive face of fighting evil.
But after several series of the hit action show, Buffy has now gone off the rails - and found out she's pregnant after a drunken party.
And in what is sure to infuriate the U.S. anti-abortion lobby, Buffy has decided to have a termination.
After trailing the latest issue with the teaser that Buffy is 'distracted by a rather personal problem', her character is seen telling vampire Spike - who may or may not be the father - that her life is in freefall: 'I'm going to have an abortion.
'I'm barely able to hold onto a job. I live with roommates who are about to kick me out. And I can't even hold my alcohol well enough to remember who got me pregnant.
'I can handle the Slayer stuff … But everything else I'm not ready. At least not now.'
He told told Entertainment Weekly: 'A woman's right to choose is under attack as much as it's ever been, and that's a terrible and dangerous thing for this country.
'I don't usually get soap box-y with this, but the thing about Buffy is all she's going through is what women go through, and what nobody making a speech, holding up a placard, or making a movie is willing to say.
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Torn: Buffy agonises over her decision with Spike in the comic strip |
And he told reporters: 'Buffy was always about the arc of a life, and it wasn’t ever going to be one of those shows where they were perpetually in high school and never asked why.
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