How Is Olivia Portrayed In Silent Night

"Olivia Pope's Abortion Got 1 Minute Of Airtime - And That's All It Needed." On Scandal’s winter season finale, a powerful message is shown without any words. Main character, Olivia is seen entering a doctor’s office and then assisted by a female medical professional, undergoes a minimally invasive procedure and then continues with her life. While this scene is going on “Silent Night” is heard playing in the background. Viewers of the show never did know if Olivia was pregnant or not and the fact that this seen showed her on the operating table made it a groundbreaking moment. The topic of abortion is rarely dicussed in pop culture which lead to Planned Parenthood’s president Cecile Richards to send out a tweet stating “Thank you @shondrarhimes
for bringing this incredibly important issue to the bajillion people watching. #Scandal.” Scandal showed aboration for what it is: a completely legal medical procedure. It does not determine what kind of person a woman is, and that it only makes up a small part of a woman’s life story. Although I have never watched the show, Scandal, I did view the scene of Olivia’s medical procedure from the video clip provided with this article. The very sensitive topic was portrayed in this scene in a very respectful way and I believe the choice to not make it a big deal with scripts talking about the procedure allowed it to receive a lot of positive feedback via social media.