Claire Donald
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in Olivia Pope's story, she would be having an abortion.
And you might hear this and be like, why is Shonda Rhimes writing so many abortions?
And it's like, because she's writing so many women's stories.
Yeah.
And that is a part of so many women's stories.
And it's just not talked about because it's not seen on television.
Totally.
It's not a rare thing.
Do you remember what season she gets an abortion?
I don't know what season it is.
And something that was very important to her, speaking of that, is that when she was writing Olivia's abortion, so much of the feedback that she got was like, but Fitz is going to be so upset when he finds out about it.
And Shonda was like, that's not what the story is about.
The story is not about him.
It's about her.
Exactly.
And what she wants.
And her experience.
So the network really –
had a problem with Olivia Pope having an abortion.
But Shonda had learned something from her previous writing.