Lindy West, whose memoir “Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman” inspired the new Hulu series, was adamant about keeping the true story of her abortion in the show.

“I think that we don’t typically see abortion presented on screen in an honest real way, in the way that it actually is a part of people’s lives,” West, who serves as an executive producer and writer of the show, told Page Six at the New York premiere on Wednesday. “I mean, understandably, people who are making television need to make drama and excitement and the reality is that this is a medical procedure that is very normal … I think that it’s really, really important to present that kind of mundane counterexample to the way that abortion is presented in media because people don’t understand that it can, not just be a neutral and mundane part of people’s lives, but a positive part of people’s lives.”

West, who set up the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion in 2015 to inspire conversations around the topic, has been open about her own abortion in 2010. In the first episode of “Shrill,” Aidy Bryant’s character Annie has an abortion after finding out emergency contraception might be less effective for women over a certain weight.

“I’m grateful that I’m not a mother of a child with the person who got me pregnant,” she told us. “I’m grateful that I have this life that I built intentionally myself.”

She added, “I think you can see that for Annie. Obviously, the abortion is a complicated decision because of her life, but not because she’s conflicted about the procedure. It ultimately ends up being an empowering moment for her and I think that’s really important for young people to see, people who don’t know a lot about abortion because as a society we don’t know how to talk about it.”

All six episodes of “Shrill” are streaming on Hulu beginning Friday.