Uma Thurman Photo: Christian Vierig/Getty Images Actor Uma Thurman has been following the fallout from the most recent attempt to gut abortion access in Texas, and she is filled with — in her own words — “great sadness, and something akin to horror.
“The abortion I had as a teenager was the hardest decision of my life, one that caused me anguish then and that saddens me even now,” she writes, “but it was the path to the life full of joy and love that I have experienced.” She added: “Choosing not to keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be.”
Thurman writes that, in her late teens, she got an abortion in Germany after being “accidentally impregnated by a much older man.” At the time, she was trying to launch her career and also “living out of a suitcase in Europe.” Though she wanted to keep the pregnancy, speaking with her parents convinced her she wasn’t ready for a baby. “I lay awake on the table while the doctor, who was a kind man, explained every step of the process as it happened,” she wrote.
Decades later, Thurman is the mother of three children, and outraged to see legislators enable vigilantes to “prey on” abortion patients for cash. Which … yes: We are talking about a law that eliminates the possibility of choice before many people even realize they have one to make. As of September 1, S.B. 8 has banned abortions in Texas past the point of fetal cardiac activity — typically, around six weeks — and incentivized anyone who doesn’t work for the government to enforce the law.
Thurman notes that people “might not be interested in the opinions of an actress,” but she can nonetheless empathize with the situation Texans may now find themselves in. “I can assure you that no one finds herself on that table on purpose,” she writes.
Ugh. Stop with this BS narrative that suggests women should feel bad. Most don’t.
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