Claire Donald

She does not want a baby.

So the original plan for the storyline in season one is that Christina would have an abortion.

But the network came to Shonda and they were like, I don't know about this.

Like, I think you're pushing it way too hard.

I don't think you should do it.

And because this is... By the way, Shonda Rhimes, Grey's Anatomy is her first show ever.

Wild.

She had done...

three movies and this is her first show wild so she gets really scared and she changes it to an ectopic pregnancy i remember hearing about this i mean i mean i it was 2005 yeah totally it was such a different time but it's just like wow like they have to be like this is this horrible thing happens to her instead of her making her own choice exactly tess it's like we can't we can't show her deciding not to be a mother like has to be this tragic horrible thing oh my god yeah

So then years later, when Shonda had much more power at ABC, the show revisited the storyline.

Christina was now married to Owen Hunt.

She becomes pregnant again.

And once again, she says very clearly she does not want children.

And this time the show does not redirect the story.

Christina chose to have an abortion.

And I think that's also such an amazing thing for Shonda to show of like, even a married woman can still decide, I don't want kids.

My priority in my life is my career.

Like an abortion on TV doesn't always have to be a teenager who is fighting kind of like on the pit, you know, which is like, I love the pit, but like.

So it can be a grown woman be like, no, I'm good.

Exactly.