ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy has been beating the pro-abortion drum for 20 years. So it is no surprise that Thursday’s episode decried the “dark time” of a post-Dobbs America.
In the episode, “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” Dr. Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) prepared a pro-abortion presentation for a medical conference. Her colleagues, Dr. Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) and Dr. Cass Beckman (Sophia Bush) helped her fix technical difficulties with her slideshow while discussing the “cause.”
Altman: Dr. Bailey is presenting on her program, training ob/gyn residents from states with abortion bans.
Beckman: So important, now more than ever.
Bailey: Yeah, well, how am I supposed to inspire other hospitals to start programs like ours if they can’t read my slides?!
Altman: Well, Cass is actually amazing at slideshows. Sorry. I-I don’t know why I said “Actually.” She’s just — She’s amazing.
Bailey: Uh, can you work fast?
Beckman: For this cause, it would be my honor.
Bailey’s training program was first mentioned in a 2023 episode of Grey’s Anatomy that falsely portrayed it as necessary to save women in life-threatening emergencies. As Newsbusters noted at the time, “The reality is that there are no laws on the books in any U.S. state that would prevent doctors from treating women in need of medical attention for life-threatening situations.”
Later in their hotel room, the women bemoan life after Dobbs, the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Beckman: Didn’t you win a Catherine Fox Award for your program?
Bailey: I did. Felt like an accomplishment then. Now it feels like I’m trying to bail water with a thimble.
Beckman: I get it, but programs like yours are a beacon of hope.
Bailey: Thank you.
Beckman: Now let’s just make sure your presentation is as great as you are. Next bullet, please. Teddy?
Altman: Oh. Yeah. Sorry. Uh… “Following Dobbs...”
When Bailey finally gives her presentation, she speaks of our current era in which states have the freedom to defend unborn life as a “dark time.”
Bailey: So, at any given time, we have 20 to 30 trainees from 13 different states. But still, that’s not nearly enough to address the patient demands across the country. You know, somebody recently said that programs like this are a beacon of hope in a dark time. Well, I hope that you will join me in lighting the way. Thank you.
Ironically, in this same episode, Dr. Jo Wilson (Camilla Luddington), an OB/Gyn who is pregnant with twins, casually mentions multiple times that a fellow doctor “saved my babies.” This was in reference to an earlier episode this season in which a colleague saved Wilson’s unborn twins from possible miscarriage during an emergency. Unborn children are referred to as “babies” in Wilson’s scenes, but protecting them in law indicates a “dark time” in Bailey’s. Cognitive dissonance is in the DNA of abortion advocacy.
In the warped world of Grey’s Anatomy, protecting babies is “dark,” and helping to kill them makes you a “beacon of hope.” This framing is to be expected from a show that has spent decades shoving the abortion agenda down its audience’s throat.
