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The Contraception Controversy in 'Black Mirror'

On 'The VICE Guide to Right Now Podcast,' we get our facts straight about Plan B and the abortion pill.
VICE Guide to Right Now

On The VICE Guide to Right Now, VICE's daily podcast, we delve into the biggest news of the day and give you a rundown of the stories we're reading, working on, and fascinated with.

Today we discuss Kim Jong-un and Trump's nuclear buttons, Senator Orrin Hatch's retirement, and the winter "bomb cyclone" on the East Coast. Then we talk about a major factual error that fans noticed in the Jodie Foster–directed episode of Black Mirror. The show bungled the concept of emergency contraception, a form of birth control more commonly known as the morning after pill or Plan B. In this episode, we get the facts straight.

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