Uma Thurman opens up about her abortion in op-ed against the Texas ban

[irajaxon]

The Texas abortion law is a human rights crisis for American women, Uma Thurman writes in an op-ed https://t.co/Jw8eI0rLpH pic.twitter.com/j3OYrlBrK0
- Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) September 21, 2021
In a candid and heartfelt op-ed published in the Washington Post, Uma Thurman reveals she had to get an abortion done in her late-teens

Comments

[scriptedending]

I hate that women feel like they have to share their personal medical history to help put a face to the harm these laws are doing, but I am grateful they are willing to do it.

[fauxkaren]

Same.

I hate that these laws are making women feel like they need to share their personal medical decisions. I'm glad that there are those willing to do it. But I hate that they have to.

Abortion rights are so key to women's rights. Allowing women to choose when and how to have a family allows women to pursue career opportunities or to get out of bad relationships or to just live their lives how they want to.

[angriest_girl]

It always angers me that they feel the need to explain WHY they had an abortion, like they have to have a “good” reason.

[poopanna]

I feel like I have to share that I found out I was pregnant right before my HUSBAND scheduled his vasectomy.

If I said “I had one,” and that was it, I’d be called a slut by some basement dwelling dick cheese.

[t_snake]

It always surprises me that texas can be even more backwards than Ireland and Italy. I know that but it just never cease to amaze me.

This law is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.

[evilgerbil]

Protestant Evangelicals are their own special breed.

[ahkna]

Catholics have their own issues, but Christian Evangelicals are literally a death cult.

[barbarbarian]

conservatism is fucking terminal

[xdecadentx]

It boggles my mind that abortion is used as a tool against women the way it is.

I cannot fathom how anyone believes it's the business of anyone but the mother whether or not they decide to have the baby or not.

[ahkna]

That's because you see a woman as an independent human being.

That's why there's so much hypocrisy from within the anti-choice movement: women who violently and virulently protest against abortion and get abortions themselves are only able to break-out of the misogynist thinking long enough to consider herself a person - a real person with real issues not like these whores who use abortion as birth control and just need jesus - and get the procedure done. It's why they can condemn women and children in the same position but make an exception for themselves

[vulcan_rhapsody]

She's very brave for doing this.

At the same time I don't think it will change people's minds - if people had empathy, they would not be against abortions in the first place. The forced-choice crowd hates women and wants to control them.

[itsme_eloise]

there's also this:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/texas-abortion-law-david-simon-hbo-1235018353/

[theactualworst]

Good for him! He’s right! I would not be taking a job in Texas right now.

[itsme_eloise]

the only thing the state government understands or cares about is business so it's the only way to get them to pay attention