Quick Hit: Abortion on Prime Time

So apparently Dr. Cristina Yang had an abortion on Grey’s Anatomy last night.

I haven’t seen the show in a while and didn’t catch it last night, but “A Character on Grey’s Anatomy Actually Had an Abortion on Prime-Time Television Last Night” by Willa  Paskin in New York Magazine today caught my attention.

Grey’s has explored the edges of this territory before. Cristina wanted to get an abortion in season two, before that ectopic pregnancy; Addison has talked about having had an abortion, after getting pregnant with Mark. But last night’s storyline constituted a much bolder step, if one perfectly in keeping with character: There’s probably no woman on TV right now more single-mindedly dedicated to her career than Cristina. It has long been her defining characteristic. If it occasionally makes her into a caricature, it has also unquestionably established that she would have an abortion in this circumstance. The writers didn’t have to get her pregnant at all, but once they did, this was the only plausible resolution for her.  Still, many shows before Grey’s have shied away from doing what’s right for the character when it comes to abortions.

Read the whole piece here.

I wish I could comment, but, as I already disclosed, I didn’t see the episode.  I will wait patiently until it’s available online, but until then I am asking all of you out there:  Did you catch this episode?  What did you think of it?