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When we consider what makes a great abortion storyline, we often think it has to include a character actually having an abortion. But today when the basic human right is in jeopardy , one that explores the process of deciding whether or not to even have one is also an act of rebellion.

Because that in and of itself reflects a system of choice, the very thing that is at risk right now. Never mind back in 2001, when the word abortion was rarely uttered in real life much less on screen, despite over 1 million abortions reported that year in the U.S. alone.

But leave it up to Sex and the City, which never shied away from taboo topics that make even some people today uncomfortable like a confidently single woman throwing herself an Im not having a baby shower and lamenting the funkiest tasting spunk to go there.

Minutes into a fourth season episode titled Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, notably pragmatic lawyer Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) tells her best friend Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) in the middle of a bustling New York City sidewalk that shes pregnant and will have an abortion. Not a whole lot of lead-in here only introducing an unwanted reality and Mirandas solution to it.

Even for an audience that had grown used to being dropped into intimate confabs between four independent women, with friends Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Samantha (Kim Cattrall), the subject still challenged their comfort with womens ownership of our bodies unlike any other.