{"id":2828,"date":"2014-09-03T13:08:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T12:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2014-09-03T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T13:16:10","slug":"film-review-the-obvious-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: &#8220;Obvious Child&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve not had a film review here before, have we? \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2014\/09\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2829 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2014\/09\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013-201x300.png\" alt=\"OC-poster-screenshot-121013\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2014\/09\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2014\/09\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013.png 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, the ratio of talked-about-ness to actual screenings of\u00a0<em>Obvious Child<\/em>\u00a0is unusually\u00a0high; it doesn&#8217;t seem to have got all that much time in mainstream cinemas, which meant that I had to schlep along to Manchester&#8217;s Cornerhouse to see it. \u00a0(I have a theory about cinemas, which is that the artistic\u00a0quality of the establishment is inversely proportional to the comfort\u00a0of the seating. \u00a0The Cornerhouse is a nice example of this rule in action.) \u00a0Why it&#8217;s attracted so much attention is captured in the elevator pitch: it&#8217;s a romantic comedy about abortion. \u00a0It certainly got certain elements of the US commentariat all excited &#8211; RightWingWatch <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/if-america-laughs-america-beyond-redemption-right-reacts-abortion-comedy-obvious-child\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">has a nice little compilation here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> &#8211; though admittedly, as far as I can tell, the objections haven&#8217;t been matched in the UK, where the emphasis has been much more along the lines of &#8220;It&#8217;s that film that got the American right all antsy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I can see why certain sectors of the commentariat have got upset about it; the film is remarkable in just how down-to-earth\u00a0its handling of the plot is. \u00a0The plot is dead simple: a woman (Donna, played by Jenny Slate) loses her boyfriend and her job within the space of about three frames, gets drunk, has a one-night-stand, gets pregnant, decides to have an abortion, lets the father of the child know all this in the course of a stand-up routine, has that abortion, then decides to watch\u00a0<em>Gone with the Wind<\/em>. \u00a0It&#8217;s that straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>For Donna, it&#8217;s less a matter of obvious children than obvious decisions. \u00a0She doesn&#8217;t want to be pregnant, and sets about not being. \u00a0There&#8217;s no indication that she&#8217;ll regret the decision; there&#8217;re no lingering shots of Donna\u00a0agonising over whether it&#8217;s the right thing to do; the father (Max, played by Jake Lacy)\u00a0says he wants to be a grandfather in passing, but doesn&#8217;t try to talk her out of it, or even insist that he should have a say. \u00a0Donna is a little nervous about the procedure &#8211; but then, it makes sense to be a little nervous about having a mole removed or any other minor surgery. \u00a0There&#8217;s no moral freight, though. \u00a0Donna is not irresponsible &#8211; I mean, she might have done something a bit irresponsible in not taking more care with the contraception, but that&#8217;s a shared thing with Max; and making a decision about what to do in the wake of having done something a bit daft <em>is<\/em> responsible.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, <em>Obvious Child<\/em> is\u00a0just about a person making a decision.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s quite refreshing. \u00a0Quite a lot of pro-choice arguments allow that the decision to terminate a pregnancy is a big one; but\u00a0I wonder whether that concedes a lot &#8211; too much &#8211; to the anti-abortion side. \u00a0There&#8217;s no reason why\u00a0deciding to abort has to be a big deal, especially when it&#8217;s only weeks into the pregnancy and the foetus&#8217;d be barely visible anyway. \u00a0Maybe that&#8217;s what&#8217;s upset a lot of people: not so much that she has an abortion, but that the narrative about it being a hard decision that might be regretted is punctured.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, when the doctor whom Donna approaches starts wittering on about alternatives, you want to yell at the screen: when an articulate and coherent and obviously competent woman says &#8220;I want an abortion&#8221;, which part of that don&#8217;t you understand? \u00a0The real scandal here is that a minor medical procedure might set her back a month&#8217;s rent. \u00a0But, hey, there&#8217;s a free HIV test thrown in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh: the other thing about the film &#8211; which is definitely to be recommended &#8211; is that it&#8217;s laugh-out-loud funny, and not ashamed to be clever. \u00a0Donna is a stand-up comic by night; her routines are possibly the least funny part of the film &#8211; except, ironically enough, the one that&#8217;s supposed to be a disaster. \u00a0(I&#8217;m not sure if she&#8217;s supposed to be a B-grade comic, or whether it&#8217;s just hard to write a pretend standup routine; it could easily be the latter.) \u00a0During the day, she works at a shop called &#8220;<span style=\"color: #545454\">Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Books&#8221;; Max is presented as a whitebread MBA type, but he&#8217;s read Bola<span style=\"color: #252525\">\u00f1<\/span>o<\/span>. \u00a0Elsewhere, it&#8217;s rude, embarrassing, and gloriously brazen. \u00a0There&#8217;re fart noises, and there&#8217;s a polysyllabic vocabulary: this is scatological humour for people who listen to <em>Between the Ears<\/em>. \u00a0Because even if you think that having a termination is a big deal, life is still absurd, and your brain doesn&#8217;t switch off. \u00a0Donna isn&#8217;t just a baby-vat.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve not had a film review here before, have we? \u00a0 As far as I can tell, the ratio of talked-about-ness to actual screenings of\u00a0Obvious Child\u00a0is unusually\u00a0high; it doesn&#8217;t seem to have got all that much time in mainstream cinemas, which meant that I had to schlep along to Manchester&#8217;s Cornerhouse to see it. \u00a0(I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,2022,472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curios","category-reproduction","category-thinking-aloud"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Film Review: &quot;Obvious Child&quot; - Journal of Medical Ethics blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Film Review: &quot;Obvious Child&quot; - Journal of Medical Ethics blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We&#8217;ve not had a film review here before, have we? \u00a0 As far as I can tell, the ratio of talked-about-ness to actual screenings of\u00a0Obvious Child\u00a0is unusually\u00a0high; it doesn&#8217;t seem to have got all that much time in mainstream cinemas, which meant that I had to schlep along to Manchester&#8217;s Cornerhouse to see it. \u00a0(I [...]Read More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Journal of Medical Ethics blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-09-03T12:08:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-09-03T13:16:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2014\/09\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013-201x300.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"BMJ\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"BMJ\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"BMJ\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ba3da426ed20e8f1d933ca367d8216fe\"},\"headline\":\"Film Review: &#8220;Obvious Child&#8221;\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-09-03T12:08:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-03T13:16:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":807,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/files\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013-201x300.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Curios\",\"Reproduction\",\"Thinking Aloud\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/\",\"name\":\"Film Review: \\\"Obvious Child\\\" - Journal of Medical Ethics blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/files\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013-201x300.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-09-03T12:08:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-03T13:16:10+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/files\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/files\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013.png\",\"width\":355,\"height\":528},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/03\\\/film-review-the-obvious-child\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Film Review: &#8220;Obvious Child&#8221;\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/\",\"name\":\"Journal of Medical Ethics blog\",\"description\":\"A blog to discuss the ethics of medicine in its many guises and formats.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Journal of Medical Ethics blog\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/files\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/jme-logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/files\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/jme-logo.png\",\"width\":200,\"height\":50,\"caption\":\"Journal of Medical Ethics blog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ba3da426ed20e8f1d933ca367d8216fe\",\"name\":\"BMJ\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"BMJ\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.bmj.com\\\/medical-ethics\\\/author\\\/admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Film Review: \"Obvious Child\" - Journal of Medical Ethics blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Film Review: \"Obvious Child\" - Journal of Medical Ethics blog","og_description":"We&#8217;ve not had a film review here before, have we? \u00a0 As far as I can tell, the ratio of talked-about-ness to actual screenings of\u00a0Obvious Child\u00a0is unusually\u00a0high; it doesn&#8217;t seem to have got all that much time in mainstream cinemas, which meant that I had to schlep along to Manchester&#8217;s Cornerhouse to see it. \u00a0(I [...]Read More...","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/","og_site_name":"Journal of Medical Ethics blog","article_published_time":"2014-09-03T12:08:06+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-09-03T13:16:10+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2014\/09\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013-201x300.png","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"BMJ","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"BMJ","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/"},"author":{"name":"BMJ","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/#\/schema\/person\/ba3da426ed20e8f1d933ca367d8216fe"},"headline":"Film Review: &#8220;Obvious Child&#8221;","datePublished":"2014-09-03T12:08:06+00:00","dateModified":"2014-09-03T13:16:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/"},"wordCount":807,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2014\/09\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013-201x300.png","articleSection":["Curios","Reproduction","Thinking Aloud"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/","name":"Film Review: \"Obvious Child\" - Journal of Medical Ethics blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2014\/09\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013-201x300.png","datePublished":"2014-09-03T12:08:06+00:00","dateModified":"2014-09-03T13:16:10+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2014\/09\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2014\/09\/OC-poster-screenshot-121013.png","width":355,"height":528},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/09\/03\/film-review-the-obvious-child\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Film Review: &#8220;Obvious Child&#8221;"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/","name":"Journal of Medical Ethics blog","description":"A blog to discuss the ethics of medicine in its many guises and formats.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/#organization","name":"Journal of Medical Ethics blog","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2026\/04\/jme-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/files\/2026\/04\/jme-logo.png","width":200,"height":50,"caption":"Journal of Medical Ethics blog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/#\/schema\/person\/ba3da426ed20e8f1d933ca367d8216fe","name":"BMJ","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b4d8f39281bcae118348a1c027347b8e53b82d42520e774a8b50dd9a6ac6c01d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"BMJ"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/"],"url":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}