Uma Thurman has penned a powerful and deeply personal essay in protest to Texas’ restrictive abortion law, which bans the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy.
In the column, published in The Washington Post, Thurman called the Texas law a “discriminatory tool against those who are economically disadvantaged,” sharing that she had an abortion in her late teens.
“I have followed the course of Texas’s radical antiabortion law with great sadness, and something akin to horror,” she wrote. “Now, in the hope of drawing the flames of controversy away from the vulnerable women on whom this law will have an immediate effect, I am sharing my own experience.”
Thurman went on to share that when she began her acting career at 15, noting that she was “often the only kid in the room,” she was “accidentally impregnated by a much older man.”
“I was living out of a suitcase in Europe, far from my family, and about to start a job,” she revealed. “I struggled to figure out what to do. I wanted to keep the baby, but how?”
Thurman said that she called her parents for advice despite never having spoken to them about being sexually active before, noting that her mother was gravely ill and in the hospital at the time.
Her parents warned her of the difficulties she would face if she attempted to raise a child as a single, teenage mother who was taking the steps to launch an acting career.
“We decided as a family that I couldn’t go through with the pregnancy, and agreed that termination was the right choice,” she wrote. “My heart was broken nonetheless.”
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