"After an earlier miscarriage, Cristina Yang (played by Sandra Oh) in the hit series ""Grey's Anatomy"" decides to have an abortion in order to keep up her workaholic tendencies. The show's creator and show runner Shonda Rhimes later told <a href=""http://www.vulture.com/2011/09/shonda_rhimes_talks_about_grey.html"" target=""_blank"">New York Magazine</a> that she had wanted to include the plot line in the first season, but had ""some very strong conversations with Broadcast Standard and Practices back then about the topic."""