Scary TV.

I watch Grey's Anatomy, and I'm not going to lie, it's one of my favorite guilty pleasures. But I just caught up on last week's episode ("Piece of My Heart") and there was a line that jumped out at me. When Izzy is talking to the HIV+ woman who has just found out that she's pregnant and wants an abortion. And yes, the point is that Izzy does a terrible job of explaining to the woman that with treatment, her child could be born free of HIV, and the moral of the story is that Izzy realizes this and provides the woman with this information. But in the middle of it all, she throws in this line: "If you want to have an abortion because you want to have an abortion, then that's between you and whatever God you believe in."

I recognize that logic. "Sin if you will, it's not my problem. That's between you and God. But I think I know what he might have to say about that." So Izzy says that she's not pushing an agenda, but there's still judgment and shaming involved. It was chilling coming from a doctor. Even if it's only a doctor of the perpetually-distracted-by-personal-drama-during-surgery, knockin'-boots-in-the-on-call-room, cutting-Denny's-LVAD-wire variety.