Angela Deiseach spent weeks extensively preparing for her role in the episode. She watched about a teenage girl who chose abortion, which made her cry, discussed the subject at length with Maureen, and eventually asked to visit an abortion clinic alone. There, she was recognized from the show and heckled by anti-abortion protesters. Deiseach then attended a counselling session, with nobody in the room knowing that she was an actress. After the session, Deiseach entered an elevator, where a man called her a "whore". Principal photography of the two-parter took place in the spring of 1989, wrapping on May 24. The Deiseach twins recalled later that the filming of the scene in which Erica has to face her pregnancy reduced Kit Hood and everybody in the room to tears.
