Uma Thurman reveals she had abortion aged 15 as she calls Texas law ‘human rights crisis’

metro.co.uk:

The Washington Post, calling the Texas abortion law a ‘human rights crisis for American women’.Uma, 51, explained that she had started working as an actress aged 15 and was living in Europe when she became pregnant during a relationship with an older man.While she wanted to keep the baby, Uma made a decision to have an abortion after speaking to her father and mother, who was ‘gravely ill in hospital’, on the phone.She wrote: ‘They asked me about the status of my relationship — it was not viable — 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’t have the.