![]() ![]() In the first episode of “Shrill,” Aidy Bryant’s character Annie has an abortion after finding out emergency contraception might be less effective for women over a certain weight. ![]() West, who set up the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion in 2015 to inspire conversations around the topic, has been open about her own abortion in 2010. ![]() “I mean, understandably, people who are making television need to make drama and excitement and the reality is that this is a medical procedure that is very normal … I think that it’s really, really important to present that kind of mundane counterexample to the way that abortion is presented in media because people don’t understand that it can, not just be a neutral and mundane part of people’s lives, but a positive part of people’s lives.” “I think that we don’t typically see abortion presented on screen in an honest real way, in the way that it actually is a part of people’s lives,” West, who serves as an executive producer and writer of the show, told Page Six at the New York premiere on Wednesday. Lindy West, whose memoir “ Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman” inspired the new Hulu series, was adamant about keeping the true story of her abortion in the show. ![]()
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