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The idea that pregnancy is used to punish a female for having sex (where is the sperm donor, by the way) is Handmaid’s Tale stuff. Mothers came up to me with tears and their eyes and realized it was true for them, too. Amy brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as well as her incredible passion about this subject.ĪMY BRENNEMAN: Yesterday, I made a sign for the rally that said: “I am a good mother now because I had an abortion then.” I stood with my husband at my side. Carrie knows how passionate Amy is about reproductive rights, so she connected us. MK: I am friends with Carrie Coon, who knows Amy from The Leftovers. SH: How did Amy get involved? What does she bring to the table? RG: We are still telling individual patients’ stories - this season’s story is based on our friend’s second trimester abortion - but we primarily follow the people who work at the clinic, from the doctor who tells knock knock jokes to the counselor with a passion for the zero population growth movement, to the intern who thinks there’s a bomb in a pizza box. So we decided to create what was basically a pilot for a half-hour workplace comedy. And we realized that we really wanted to bring to life a day at an independent abortion clinic - which, turns out, is just the same as any other workplace. When we were editing it, we realized how much we loved the the arc of the clinic’s employees. MK: Each episode in season one focused on an individual abortion story. SH: Talk to me about the differences between season one and season two. We took all of those stories, fictionalized them, mined the funny and birthed - by choice - CTRL ALT DELETE. Then we took it a step further and interviewed women and men about their experiences as well as clinics. RG: So when we decided to “be the change we wanted to see in ” as it were, it was easy to mine our own stories. So Roni stopped talking about it for years, but I created an anonymous blog and tracked my abortion. Stories to relate to of women who were not fraught, not frightened, totally relieved, and in Roni’s case, who had a legitimately funny experience. We both had abortions at the same clinic back in Chicago (separately, not together) and at the time, we both (separately, not together) looked to the media to find stories of women like us. And Roni, of course, insisted that it would be a comedy, which I agreed with.

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I immediately knew I wanted to make a web series about abortion and that it should be a character anthology. We quickly recognized our own idiotic move and conferred.

Emboldened by that, we decided to make the very rookie mistake of deciding to work on a feature. Then the short got into a nice film festival. MARGARET KATCH: But the process of it made us fall in love with filmmaking. It was just going to be an afternoon (and it was) and we worked with a friend of mine from high school who was happy to be working on “art for art’s sake.”

We decided to make a quick, cheap short just to get stuff on camera for our reels as actors. almost six years ago (separately, not together), we had already known each other from our side hustle job back in Chicago. SUSAN HORNIK: How did you decide to come up with this project? Given this latest barrage against reproductive rights, we gathered Katch, Geva and Shondaland alum Brenneman for an honest talk about the series, their own experiences with the shows subject matter, and how a series like CTRL ALT DELETE can help us make sense of what women are going through in the world today. She also hopes the series will normalize the conversation about a procedure so many women have - or will - experience. “For us, the most important thing is that we get to tell these stories,” Katch tells Shondaland, explaining her need to channel her frustration around the attacks on abortion access into art. In season two, activist and actor Amy Brenneman signed on as consulting producer, and the series is turning its focus more toward the people who work at the clinic, a topic rarely explored on-screen. The series' brand of relatable and honest yet hilarious storytelling was an overnight hit, earning actor Naomi Grossman an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category. In 2017, Geva and Katch launched CTRL ALT DELETE with seven episodes, each based on interviews with real women who had abortions. Self-described as ' Grey's Anatomy with the shenanigans of Scrubs,' the series is a workplace comedy that follows the day-to-day life of employees and patients at an independent abortion clinic.