{"id":801409,"date":"2021-09-22T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=801409"},"modified":"2021-09-22T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T12:00:56","slug":"uma-thurman-calls-her-abortion-darkest-secret-admits-she-wanted-to-keep-baby-in-op-ed-advocating-abortion-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uma-thurman-calls-her-abortion-darkest-secret-admits-she-wanted-to-keep-baby-in-op-ed-advocating-abortion-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Uma Thurman Calls Her Abortion \u2018Darkest Secret,\u2019 Admits She Wanted To Keep Baby In Op-Ed Advocating Abortion In Texas\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuma-thurman-calls-her-abortion-darkest-secret-admits-she-wanted-to-keep-baby-in-op-ed-advocating-abortion-in-texas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=801409&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1204587008.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In an op-ed condemning a pro-life law in Texas as a \u201chuman rights crisis for American women,\u201d actress Uma Thurman reveals she once had an abortion, calling it her \u201cdarkest secret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thurman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/09\/21\/uma-thurman-abortion-law-texas\/\">admits<\/a> in the op-ed that she wanted to keep her child, though she felt abortion was her only option after speaking with her family. The decision to have an abortion and kill the baby left her heartbroken and still causes her pain today, she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started my acting career at 15, working in an environment where I was often the only kid in the room. In my late teens, I was accidentally impregnated by a much older man,\u201d the \u201cKill Bill\u201d actress detailed. \u201cI was living out of a suitcase in Europe, far from my family, and<b> <\/b>about to start a job. I struggled to figure out what to do. I wanted to keep the baby, but how?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI telephoned home. My mother was gravely ill in the hospital. My father went to her bedside to discuss my options. We had never spoken about sex before; this was the first time, and it was terrible for all of us,\u201d Thurman continued. \u201cThey asked me about the status of my relationship \u2014 it was not viable<b> <\/b>\u2014<b> <\/b>and warned me how difficult it would be to raise a baby as a teen on my own. My childish fantasy of motherhood was soundly corrected as I weighed answers to their very precise questions. I was just starting out in my career and didn\u2019t have the means to provide a stable home, even for myself. We decided as a family that I couldn\u2019t go through with the pregnancy, and agreed that termination was the right choice.&nbsp;My heart was broken nonetheless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is so much pain in this story. It has been my darkest secret until now,\u201d Thurman wrote, before speaking glowingly of the children she did keep.<\/p>\n<p>The actress admits the abortion caused her \u201canguish\u201d \u201cthat saddens me even now,\u201d but added that the abortion allowed her \u201cthe path to the life full of joy and love that I have experienced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChoosing not to keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be,\u201d Thurman coldly asserts.<\/p>\n<p>The op-ed closed with Thurman condemning Texas pro-life legislation, which bans abortion after the unborn\u2019s heartbeat is detectable, which is around six-weeks, calling it \u201canother discriminatory tool against those who are economically disadvantaged, and often, indeed, against their partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, actress Michelle Williams thanked abortion for her Golden Globe win, while she was visibly pregnant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pregnant-michelle-williams-thanks-abortion-for-her-golden-globe-win\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"37\">\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the acknowledgment of the choices I\u2019m made, and I\u2019m also grateful to have lived at a moment in our society where choice exists, because, as women and as girls, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice,\u201d Williams said, clutching her award.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have been able to do this without employing a woman\u2019s right to choose, to choose when to have my children and with whom,\u201d Williams added, announcing that she had an abortion early in her career, presumably as she was an up-and-coming actress (though she never actually said the word, \u201cabortion\u201d).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNow, I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank God, or whomever you pray to, that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo, women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self interest. It\u2019s what men have been doing for years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pregnant-michelle-williams-thanks-abortion-for-her-golden-globe-win\">Pregnant Michelle Williams Thanks Abortion For Her Golden Globe&nbsp;Win<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed condemning a pro-life law in Texas as a \u201chuman rights crisis for American women,\u201d actress Uma Thurman reveals she once had an abortion, calling it her \u201cdarkest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}