The latest episodes of hit TV shows "Scandal" and "The Good Wife" tackled the hot topics of abortion and Planned Parenthood.
Last Thursday, "Scandal" got very political with two shocking story lines, reported Variety.
"Scandal" stunned millions of fans with a one-minute, straightforward and sensitive scene of Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) undergoing a legal abortion, noted the Atlantic. The is the first time since Roe v. Wade was passed 40 years ago, allowing women to have legal and safe abortions, that a major female TV character was shown on-screen undergoing the routine procedure.
The controversial episode took on First Amendment free speech laws as the law partner worked on behalf of an anti-choice client, according to TVLine.
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