Shonda Rhimes Performs Abortions And Doesn’t Care What You Think
Meanwhile over at National Review Kathryn Lopez is very unhappy that they would show an abortion on a TV medical show with a cast of female leads, and takes the opportunity to attack Shonda Rhime’s other show, Private Practice, for the female lead’s views.
Shonda Rhimes is not liked by the religious zealots on the right - she chose to do this, and she also chose to portray a happily married gay couple with a child and family as well. Kathryn just knows that Shonda’s gonna burn in hell for that…
As I mentioned in last week’s recap, the premiere of Grey’s Anatomy was a landmark as it’s the first time since Maude that a financially secure adult woman had an abortion on prime time television. While many shows have flirted with abortion they’ve always ended in miscarriage or the woman choosing to have the baby.
That hasn’t stopped shows from talking about abortion, but seeing as how one quarter of all woman get an abortion at some point television was straining credulity with all the miracle babies and miscarriages.
In fact Grey’s Anatomy was guilty of this back in their second season. Christina, clearly a pro-Choice lady with no desire for children, learned she was pregnant and decided to have an abortion. Unknown to Christina, her pregnancy was actually and ectopic pregnancy and she miscarried, passed out in the OR and had to tell her boyfriend all about it afterwards while VERY DRAMATIC music played.