Rita Moreno is sharing her own experience of America before abortion was protected. In an interview with Variety, the Oscar-winning “West Side Story” star opened up about getting an abortion when she got pregnant while dating Marlon Brando. READ MORE: Phoebe Bridgers Protests Overturning Of Roe v.
Wade With A Chant At Glastonbury: ‘F–k The Supreme Court’ The pregnancy happened before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v.
Wade decision in 1973, which enshrined a constitutional right to abortion. “Marlon found a doctor through some friends,” the 90-year-old recalled. “He was a real doctor — Marlon paid him $500 — as opposed to something in a back alley.” She continued, “Marlon took me to the hospital.
I had what they told me was a ‘disturbed pregnancy.’ The doctor didn’t do anything really, except make me bleed. In other words, he didn’t do it right.
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