According to the Politico site, on May 2, the United States Supreme Court provisionally voted to annul the Roe vs. Wade, the landmark ruling in favor of abortion in the country in 1973, due to a draft majority opinion written by Judge Samuel Alito.
The brief argues its rejection of the 1973 decision, which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of the right to abortion, and a subsequent 1992 decision, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, who reinforced that right.
Known as the “Opinion of the Court”, the brief published on December 1, 2021 maintains that the results of the Roe and Casey cases should be annulled, so it is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the elected representatives of the people.
The Politico site said it only received a copy of the draft that was specifically dedicated to the Court’s proceedings in the Mississippi case, along with other details supporting the document’s authenticity.
The news of the case Roe v. Wade is an issue that has caused discomfort and disgust in people, especially women, who have felt betrayed, since it is likely that the main affected are those who do not have financial stability or who are part of certain marginalized groups. .
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and obtained by POLITICO.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito writes. https://t.co/nl3JFLx9xg
– POLITICAL (@politician) May 3, 2022
The controversial news of the annulment of the Roe vs. Wade, in the United States, makes us analyze the issue of abortion in greater depth, taking into account both the opinions in favor and those against.
For this reason, here is a list of 15 celebrities who, during some interviews and through their social networks, have expressed their own experiences with abortion.
1. Uma Thurman
My abortion has been my darkest secret so far. I am 51 years old and I share it with you from the home where I have raised my three children, who are my pride and joy. I was just starting my career and didn’t have the means to provide a stable home, even for myself. We decided as a family that she could not continue the pregnancy and agreed that termination was the right choice. However, my heart was broken. It hurt terribly, but I didn’t complain. I had internalized so much shame that I felt I deserved the pain.
– Opinion piece by Uma Thurman for the ‘Washington Post’, published in September 2021
2. Jameela Jamil
I had an abortion when I was young and it was the best decision I have ever made. Both for myself and for the baby I didn’t want and wasn’t ready for, emotionally, psychologically and financially. So many children will end up in foster care and so many lives will be ruined.
– Jameela Jamil’s Twitter in May 2019
3. Naya Rivera
From the moment I made that first phone call to my mom, it was never a question of whether I was going to have the baby, I just knew I couldn’t. And, without even saying it, my mother knew it too. That made it easier because I felt like I never had to question if she was making the right decision, but still, nothing about the next few weeks was even remotely easy.
– Memories of Naya Rivera from 2016
Four. Phoebe Bridgers
I had an abortion in October of last year while on tour. I went to Planned Parenthood, where they gave me the abortion pill. It was easy. Everyone deserves that kind of access.
– Phoebe Bridgers Instagram story and Twitter in May 2022
5. Stevie Nicks
If I hadn’t had that abortion, I’m pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac. There was just no way I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked and there was a lot of drugs. I would have had to walk away. I knew that the music we were going to bring to the world was going to heal so many people’s hearts and make them so happy and I thought, ‘You know what? That is really important. There is no other band in the world that has two lead singers and two lead writers. That was the mission of my world.’
– Interview with ‘The Guardian’ in 2020.
6. Whoopi Goldberg
I found out I was pregnant when I was 14 years old. I didn’t have a period. I didn’t talk to anyone, I panicked. I sat in hot baths, drank those weird concoctions girls told me about, something like red Johnnie Walker with a little Clorox, alcohol, baking soda (which probably saved my stomach), and some kind of cream. I mixed it all up and became violently ill. At that time I was more afraid of having to explain to someone what was happening to me than of going to the park with a coat hanger, which is what I did.
– Angela Bonavoglia’s 1991 collection of essays, ‘The Choices We Made’
7. Rozonda Thomas
I was 20 years old and my career hadn’t really started and I got pregnant. How can I do all that? How am I going to be a mother? The abortion destroyed me, it broke my spirit, I felt that I was no longer my strong self. I felt like I had given in and bowed down to what someone else wanted. I cried almost every day for nine years. And then I was caught: I had to have a baby. I had to fix it, and the only way to fix it was with TLC producer Dallas Austin. She could only have this baby with him because the one she didn’t have was his.
– Rozonda Thomas’s 2010 reality show, ‘What Chilli Wants’
8. Jemima Kirke
My life was not conducive to raising a healthy and happy child, I just didn’t feel it was fair. So I decided to abort. Since I couldn’t tell my mother that she was pregnant, I had to pay for it out of pocket. I had to empty my account and get some money from my boyfriend. I have always thought that reproductive issues should be something women should be able to talk about freely. I still see shame and modesty around the termination of pregnancy.
– Excerpt by Jemima Kirke from the Center for Reproductive Rights Draw the Line campaign 2015
9. Amber Tamblyn
In 2012 I had an abortion. It was one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make. I still think about it to this day. But these truths do not make me regret my decision. It was the right choice for me at that time in my life. I don’t have a single doubt about it.
– Amber Tamblyn’s Twitter from May 2019
10. Keke Palmer
I was worried about my career responsibilities and feared that I wouldn’t be able to exist as a professional woman and a mother at the same time. Twitter is sometimes too flat and short to express intimate feelings and words without context can be very annoying. I am disheartened to hear of Alabama’s abortion ban. I feel like women’s rights are being pushed back and individual choice is being taken away. I am really very confused with the world and the policies that they follow.
– Keke Palmer’s Twitter from May 2019
11. Gloria Steinem
I was in London because I had a scholarship in India and I was waiting for my visa. So I was living in London and working as a waitress to support myself. I had all the usual fantasies about ending my pregnancy: maybe I’d ride a horse, maybe I’d jump down the stairs. Our mind runs through all possible alternatives and to my luck, I went to a doctor whose name I found in the phone book. It was because of his kindness as he looked at me and he said, “If you promise to never tell anyone my name, I will help you.” So he sent me to a doctor who actually did the procedure.
– Gloria Steinem interviews with NPR from 2021 and 2015
12. Nicki Minaj
I thought I was going to die, I was a teenager. It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever been through. It would be contradictory if I said that I was not in favor of the right to decide: she was not ready. No, he had nothing to offer a child.
– Nicki Minaj interview with ‘Rolling Stone’ from 2014
13. Tony Braxton
I felt selfish because I thought: I’m broke, things are happening in my life, and I can’t give this kid any future. I felt desperate for no reason and when I look back now I say ‘What was I thinking?’ I’m not ashamed of it, but of myself for doing it, because it could have solved something financially. It was just an excuse I was making up.
– Toni Braxton memoir from 2011
14. Billie Jean King
Anyone who wanted an abortion in the early 1970s had to get approval from a hospital committee—that is, explain to a panel of strangers why you thought your pregnancy would “severely harm” your physical and mental health. Arguing to a dozen people I had never met why I was eligible for an abortion remains one of the most demeaning experiences of my life.
– Billie Jean King opinion piece for the ‘Washington Post’ published in December 2021
15.Busy Philipps
It’s not brave for me to say that I had an abortion at 15, because it’s a medical thing, a thing, a choice I made and I don’t regret it at all. This shame was penetrated on me, but I have no shame. I’m glad I didn’t have that man’s baby. I’m fine… We cling to these things so as not to make the men uncomfortable, but I’m willing for them to start holding on.
– Busy Philipps speech at the 2019 Goop Summit