Feministing cheers for abortion and gets her wish finally on Grey's Anatomy

She's a heart surgeon....as in really smart but she has two unintended pregnancies and she is sure she does not want to be a mother. As in really sure...even though her husband wants a family. 

She's the one on Grey's Anatomy that comes across as terribly self centered.  But she tells a friend that tries to talk her out of the abortion is that she is scared and sad but determined to abort and needs the friend to be there to hold her hand because she can't count on her husband to attend.

Maya of Feministing cheers this as finally great TV.  She calls herself a long time advocate for showing abortion on TV. No she does not mean showing a real abortion on TV as in the dismemberment of the baby....that would be too much realism for Maya.  She means the  fairy tale abortion that just fades out when the suction machine turns on. In Friday Night Lights, Ms. Maya...wrote a blog stating she was rooting for an abortion . Yes, that was her headline.  Rooting for an abortion. But don't make her look at the remains please. Cover them up with the pom poms.

Now Maya loves Grey's Anatomy ...her kind of show. But the first time Christina gets in a family way she intends to abort but drats the ectopic pregnancy angle takes it out of her hands.(Disappointed!!!) But this times she says the word and goes through with it and so Maya is thrilled with the outcome.

Of course the other A word is never mentioned.....as in adoption. Carry the baby to term and make an adoption plan of your choice, confidential, semi open or open....nah... why should I allow this child to live when it is all about me. 

Christina  says she wants to be a heart surgeon. Could she be both a mother and a heart surgeon? Maybe even have some live in help. Heart surgeons make pretty good $$.

The second point is that if she has had two unintended pregnancies and she is sure she never wants to be a mother....why does she not get her tubes tied?  She works in a hospital for goodness sakes.  She learned about the birds and bees way before med school. She also learned about fetal development and since she is a heart surgeon....that heart that beats 21 days after conception....??

But hey Maya of Feministing is happy so that is the only important thing,  right?   Maya calls her abortion decision satisfying.  Of course   she says her  greatest delight would be to see an abortion with no sadness or conflict at all. But she understands that drama must prevail.


Maya is satisfied....the baby is dead....Christina can deal with it and another drama is right around the corner. Life is good  ....for some.