In popular culture and on movie and TV — the place I typically go to both make sense of the world or to flee it — miscarriages are sometimes used as a plot system, a method to get a personality out of a pesky being pregnant or as a copout so the writers don’t must take care of abortion (see: the “handy miscarriage” trope in TV most lately depicted on And Simply Like That). As “widespread” as they’re on display, the gory particulars are normally spared. In Gray’s Anatomy, when Cristina Yang has a miscarriage in Season 2, the main target of her restoration is on her emotional coldness in the direction of the incident (she ultimately cries so onerous she delivers the now iconic and much-memed “Someone sedate me!” line), not the bodily specifics. When Meredith Gray and Miranda Bailey expertise their very own in later seasons, the medical ramifications, except for some blood, are additionally glossed over.
