VIDEO | Uma Thurman's daughter: I would not have existed if my mother had not had an abortion in her youth
The actress Maya Hawk spoke about the abortion ban in America and revealed how access to legal abortion affected her family, including her parents Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. During the guest appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon, Maya spoke about the decision of the Supreme Court in America to annul the constitutional right to abortion.
"I called my mother today to ask her for advice on what to say to you," Maja told the host, adding: "We started talking about the Supreme Court ruling and the essay my mother wrote a few months ago. "when they set additional restrictions on approaching abortion, which preceded all this."
Uma Thurman wrote an essay on her abortion
Last year, after Texas passed a six-week abortion ban, Thurman wrote an essay for the Washington Post sharing her personal abortion story.
"In my late teens, I accidentally got pregnant with a much older man. I lived without anything in Europe, away from my family and ready to start a business. I struggled to figure out what to do. I wanted to keep the baby, but how? ” she started the essay.
Thurman gave details of her experience, saying that after talking to her parents, she decided she could not detect the pregnancy.
"The abortion I had as a teenager was the hardest decision of my life, the one that upset me then and makes me sad now, but it was the path to a life full of joy and love that I experienced. "The decision not to keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and should have been," she wrote.
Maja told the court: Come on
Uma's daughter, Maya, told Fallon that her mother's decision to have an abortion was the reason she was eventually born.
"If she had not had an abortion then, she would not have become the person she was, and I would not have existed. My parents' lives would have been derailed if she did not have access to safe and legal health, care, basic health care. "So many people will not be able to make their dreams come true because of this verdict, but in fact many will lose their lives and be insecure."
"I just want to say yes, Supreme Court. "We will continue to fight and win, as our grandmothers did."
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