Moral Issues in a Soap Opera
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Moral Issues in a Soap Opera - Eastenders, Ricky and Bianca's abortion Abortion, rape, marriage, death and murder may all be things used to make soap operas more realistic and 'in-touch' with today's current affairs. All of the issues mentioned above are written into the scripts to make this realism seem possible. A perfect example of a moral issue used, is an episode of where the main protagonists, a young couple called Bianca and Ricky, decide on having an abortion after they find out that their child will be born with an illness called Spina Bifida. In an episode of Eastenders, Ricky and Bianca are going to have a child and they are both excited about having the child, and they are both discussing what gender they think that their baby will be and they both say what gender they want it to be. When they go to get the first ultrasound...

