Quote Originally Posted by Sacred Knight View Post
Unless such a stipulation is directly written into a contract, this is absolutley and utterly irrelevant. It doesn't matter that no other female cast member got pregnant, nor whether it was something planned or unplanned. Pregnancies are either written into shows or hidden via filming trickery all the damn time. It didn't have to be a big deal either way. Whedon chose to make it such.
Could a stipulation like that even be written into a contract and be legal? I remember when Hunter Tylo was fired from Melrose Place before she even filmed her first scene (she was recast with Lisa Rinna) because she got pregnant. He (Aaron Spelling) said she broke her contract ("material change"), she sued for pregnancy discrimination, she won a 4.8 million settlement.