Claire Donald

And she had learned something from writing sex scenes, actually.

They would come to her and say, we're worried about this Olivia and Fitz sex scene.

But Shonda would say, we shot the exact same sex scene shot for shot with Meredith and Derek from Grey's.

So your problem isn't with the scene.

It's with the people.

Exactly.

Same thing with how to get away with murder.

There were two men and Shonda would say, but I wrote the same scene for Meredith and Derek and you guys didn't have a problem with it.

So again, it's not the scene.

It's the people.

So with Olivia Pope's abortion, it was the same scene as the ectopic pregnancy in Grey's Anatomy with Christina.

So she was like, again, then it's not the abortion.

Yeah.

It's the way that we're going.

Who's doing it, the way we're going about it, because it's going to be shot for shot.

Yeah.

And something that I love is.

with this with shonda writing an abortion scene for olivia pope is that she said she wanted it to be someone you knew admired and loved because she knew that a lot of the viewers spent more time with her characters than they do with the people in their lives and she wanted someone that people knew and loved to be going through this and for it not to be an abortion episode but just something that she was going through like a decision that she made during her day

exactly yeah because again abortion is health care yeah wow that's amazing i know i so we need more women in film no kidding because then it just makes it so much less scary for other women going through that and less scary to talk about and less villainized and all of that it's just like she didn't see more of it on tv i can count like maybe five shows that i've watched they've had abortion stories yes exactly and like what she's saying she's like i don't want it to be this abortion episode and then she has like

struggle with her morality it's like just she did it she did it that was all major and scandal is obviously a huge hit and in december 2013 abc ordered a pilot for shonda rhimes new series how to get away with murder starring actress viola davis