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Bailey and Sarah want to have sex. But she makes too big of a deal out of it so he is worried. And Julia has to deal with her pregnancy. At the end she miscarries but this doesn't take away the fact that she had to think and already made a choice.

Great episode. They perfectly dealt with the pregnancy issue. Everyone was supportive yet there were some questioning like from Claudia. Or Sarah for whom abortion would mean she wouldn't be alive. Really well done. I also liked Justin's part in it. Sure it isn't his body. But one can't pretend that it wasn't a big deal for him as well. For him it was also something that he may lose or what will dramatically change his life. And he wasn't even in control of it.

This episode is darker than the last ones as the situation requires it. The endless drama for the Salingers continues now that Julia is pregnant, as Helene Thompson predicted a few episodes ago. So there's a open debate for Julia: first she wants to abort, then at the clinic she changes her mind, and then thinks again at her first choice after Charlie's speech of "you have much potential and you have to live a little". Justin has kind of the reverse process: first he has doubts, then he feels ok in abort but then he thinks more and says they can have the baby (Justin cries after learning Julia's final decision). As for the rest: Bailey didn't even know Julia was having sex and moreless doesn't express an opinion, Charlie ponders the three options, offers support if she wants to have the baby but overall is not helpful, Claudia as the moral compass of the show thinks in Owen (who was "unplanned") so she's not ok with Julia's late choice, Sarah tries to understand but as an adopted is obviously against, Kirsten is not present (Julia tried to call her) but considering that she can't have kids and her words in Fool Rush Out, she would be against, same as Claudia and Sarah. Grandpa Jacob doesn't know what's going on because no one tells him nothing, despite that Claudia gives him some hints. Anyway, at the end, before Julia can make a regretful decision, she has a miscarriage.

Julia was right sometimes and wrong other times. When she tells Justin that only she will carry her choice forever is right, but she was wrong by ignoring his pain. Justin lost a child too, so she finally tells him she's sorry about the things she said to him. Charlie's story (that he once went for an abortion with a girl) is likely because he was a womanizer before, but probably if Julia's pregnancy wasn't written, I could say that his story never happened, considering his reaction and words in 2x01. That's why I'd prefer not to know what the past Charlie did, surely Kirsten'd get mad at him if she knew. That would prove Charlie was a big jerk before, the jerk Justin was not now and that in any case, Julia is right that he has no idea if the girl still suffers about it. It's hard to believe because the Charlie Salinger we usually see in this series is a good man. However, in the last scene of the episode Charlie kind of redeems himself recognizing he hasn't been really helpful and that their parents would have had the right answer. He stays with her sister all night as he did with his "wife" in Games People Play (very nice scene and great soundtrack).

Fortunately, FOX took care of the situation and ordered that Julia had a miscarriage, seemingly against Amy and Christopher's wishes. It would have been bad (and controversial) that Julia had an abortion because surely in the rest of the series the writers would have showed that doesn't matter. But as many people know, womans carry on their decision the rest of their lives for a simple reason: it's not natural. So it matters.