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- It's funny because it's
almost boring television.

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You know like, nothing happens.

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- You're right.

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- She goes and she has the abortion

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but it's so powerful because I think,

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you know even people on the left

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who are pro-choice

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have no idea how to talk about abortion

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because we don't talk about it.

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- [Nurse] Now I'm opening your cervix.

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Some cramping is normal.

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Everything looks great

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and we're about two thirds
of the way finished now.

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- I really have to ask you
about the abortion scene.

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I really loved it
because of the simplicity

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and it's like,

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guess what, abortions,
they take one minute.

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Can you talk about that?

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- When we were pitching to networks

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we were like, FYI, there will
be an abortion in the pilot.

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You know, you don't see
abortion presented on television

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in any kind of a realistic way

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'cause the reality is that
abortion's super common

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and super normal

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and people are having them all the time

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and most of them, do take one minute.

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You know, I mean--
- Yeah.

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- It's not this very special episode,

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high-drama in everyone's life

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and of course those stories are real too

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but if you're like Annie,

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or like me,

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having a first trimester abortion

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because you have an unplanned pregnancy

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and you don't wanna be pregnant,

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that's a valid experience too

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and it's not one that we see on TV.

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We especially don't see
anyone have an abortion

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and be happy about it.

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And say that it made their life better.

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And I think the more we
can normalize abortion,

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especially right now, the better.

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- Right.

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- You know, it's a really
really terrifying time

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and a lot of people are gonna die.

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I mean, forget even talking
about Roe and legality,

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they're rolling back access right now.

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- State by state.

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- By never telling these stories honestly

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in the media,

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especially on television,

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it creates this vacuum

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that anti-choicers get to fill

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and they get to define what abortion is

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and they get to tell people that it hurts

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and it's scary

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and it's traumatic

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and it's evil, you know?

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- Yeah
- When where in reality,

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if you go to an abortion clinic

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you're taken care of
by really really brave,

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caring people.

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- Yeah.

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- Who don't have to do this work

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and get murdered for it

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and get harassed every single day

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and they're there to take
care of pregnant people

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and make sure that they get to exercise

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their constitutional right.

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And it's actually, like,

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such a beautiful community of people.

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I can't even process how happy I am

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that we got to put that on screen.

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I'm super super proud.