Uma, who now has three children from her relationships with actor Ethan Hawke and financier Arpad Busson, said her abortion helped she her as the mother that went on to become.
She said: "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, but it was the path to the life full of joy and love that I have experienced.
Choosing not to keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be. In May this year Texas passed a law banning abortion from as early as six weeks once the "fetal heartbeat" has been detected. The law took effect after the Supreme Court did not respond to an emergency appeal by abortion providers. It gives any individual the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point. This was for a number of reasons, she wrote, including being unable to provide a stable home at that time in her life.
It has been my darkest secret until now. Choosing not to keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be. The law is in effect now being challenged in court after the Biden administration formally asked a federal judge to block its enforcement.
The legislation, which was signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Greg Abbott Overnight Health Care — Presented by Rare Access Action Project — Advocates push Congress to boost pandemic preparedness funds Astroworld death toll hits 9 after college student dies of her injuries Texas governor orders education officials to investigate whether pornography is available in schools MORE R in May and took effect earlier this month, bans abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected, roughly six weeks, before many women are aware they are pregnant.
Thurman wrote that she would reveal her own experience for the first time publicly "in the hope of drawing the flames of controversy away from the vulnerable women on whom this law will have an immediate effect. The Academy Award nominee recounted being accidentally impregnated by an older man while working as a teenage actor overseas and "living out of a suitcase" on her own. She recalled feeling brokenhearted after calling her parents and having "decided as a family that I couldn't go through with the pregnancy, and agreed that termination was the right choice.
The abortion at a doctor's office in Germany, Thurman wrote, "hurt terribly, but I didn't complain. I had internalized so much shame that I felt I deserved the pain.
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