Uma Thurman reflects on having an abortion

Uma Thurman revealed her “darkest secret” successful an Op-Ed for the Washington Post.

The histrion says she had an termination arsenic a teenager.

“It wounded terribly, but I didn’t complain. I had internalized truthful overmuch shame that I felt I deserved the pain,” Thurman says.

The termination took spot successful Germany, wherever Thurman says she was surviving retired of a suitcase portion pursuing an acting career.

Heartbroken astir the determination to terminate her pregnancy, Thurman says she has “no regrets” for the way she’s traveled.

The 51-year-old is the parent to 3 children, who she calls her “pride and joy.”

Thurman said she was compelled to stock her communicative aft Texas passed a restrictive termination law.

“This instrumentality is yet different discriminatory instrumentality against those who are economically disadvantaged, and often, indeed, against their partners,” Thurman writes.

The Texas instrumentality bans abortions aft doctors tin observe a fetal “heartbeat,” which is astir six weeks into pregnancy.

It besides allows anyone to writer a idiosyncratic who helps a pistillate spell done with an abortion.

“I americium grief-stricken, arsenic well, that the instrumentality pits national against citizen, creating caller vigilantes who volition prey connected these disadvantaged women, denying them the prime not to person children they are not equipped to attraction for, oregon extinguishing their hopes for the aboriginal household they mightiness choose,” Thurman writes.

The Justice Department filed a suit to artifact the Texas law. A proceeding is scheduled for Oct. 1, according to CBS News.