Shonda Rhimes Fought Back Against ABC When Making This “Grey’s Anatomy” Episode About Sexual Assault

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Shonda Rhimes Fought Back Against ABC When Making This “Grey’s Anatomy” Episode About Sexual Assault
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“Respectfully, I decline these notes.”

, the show featured a storyline about how rape kits are administered in hospitals.Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony

“They give these standard notes: ‘don’t be too gory,’ ‘don’t be too explicit in your language,’ ‘no side boob.’ But the ones we got on this script included, ‘Please don’t show any fluid on the Q-tips’ and ‘Please don’t show any body fluids under the blue lights,’”But Rhimes, who created the show back in 2005, fought back and defended the script the way it was written, according to Vernoff.

“She said, ‘Respectfully, I decline these notes.’ … Ultimately ABC understood that she was right. I really give them credit that they came back and said, ‘You’re right. You can proceed as scripted.’”During the episode, viewers watch flashbacks of Jo meeting her birth mother and learns that her biological mom abandoned her at a fire station when she was a baby because she was the result of a rape.

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