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I saw one episode where the black doctor — I'm not sure of her character's name — explained her belief that life begins at conception in terms that made is purely about her subjective belief. And, later in that episode, that same (ostensibly pro-life) doctor talked another pro-life character OUT of OPPOSING an abortion if his anti-abortion stance was based on anything other than a personal, religious belief. The other character listened to her and phoned a woman he had sent away and invited her back for what turned out to be the pratice’s first abortion! It was ingenious and perverse: the show gave a nod to there being another side to abortion, then framed it in purely religious/personal reasons, freeing up anyone who had different subjective beliefs to promote abortion.

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Hmmm. That's not how I recall it. Naomi scolded Dell for bringing his personal life into a patient's choice (which Dell has been doing a lot since his girlfriend took their daughter away from him).

As for Naomi's standpoint of her own beliefs, I love that she said she's there to create life, not kill it, and that she never even learned the abortion procedure in med school because she was against it then too. You just never hear those 'views' from prime time characters. And, to top it all off, she's black. So yeah, I thought it was profounded significant.