Sept. 2, 2021 "Brooklyn Decker slams Texas abortion law in powerful new Instagram post": Today I found this article by Kaitlin Reilly on Yahoo News. I'm not a fan of Decker, but she did bring some good points:
Brooklyn Decker has words for Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
The Grace & Frankie star took to Instagram on September 1, the day the Supreme Court failed to strike down the most restrictive anti-abortion law implemented in the state to date, to challenge the alleged values of Texas politicians.
“Governor Abbott and Texas lawmakers, ya’ll passed a law in 2015 that allows kids to bring their concealed-carry gun onto campus and you say you’re pro-life. Really? OK,” she began.
“You won’t let schools mandate masks, all while your hospitals are filling up with COVID patients, and you say you’re pro-life? And you believe in bodily autonomy? OK.”
The Just Go With It actress, who lives in her husband Andy Roddick’s hometown of Austin, also reminded her followers of Senator Ted Cruz’s February vacation to Cancun, while many in his state were suffering due to intense winter storms that caused a power grid outage.
“People are dying, they’re starving, and they’re stuck inside, and your senator leaves for Cancun to escape the cold? And you say you’re pro-life? Really?” she continued.
“You ban abortions after six weeks, a time when most women don’t know they’re pregnant, and you financially incentivize private individuals to rat each other out and say that you don’t like government overreach? OK, Texas.”
Decker, who has been outspoken in the past on social media about social issues like police brutality and climate change, has also previously shared support for her state. During the winter storms earlier this year, she posted about Roddick’s charity organization, The AR Foundation, which provided aid to struggling Texans, as well as shared other ways to receive support on social media.
On September 2, Decker also spoke out about the misinformation swelling during the coronavirus pandemic. In response to a comment about the spreading of “lies” and “misinformation,” she tweeted, “It’s terrifying. It’ll be our downfall.”
Brooklyn Decker shares message about Texas abortion law (yahoo.com)
Sept. 22, 2021 "Uma Thurman Opens Up About Her Abortion and Speaks Out Against Texas’s New Law": Today I found this article by Lauren Valentin on Yahoo News:
In reaction to the near-total abortion ban that’s now in effect in Texas, Uma Thurman has opened up about her own life-changing experience terminating a pregnancy as a teenager.
In a deeply personal op-ed for the Washington Post, Thurman recounts her abortion—referring to it as her “darkest secret”—which she underwent in her late teens after being impregnated by a much older man while living abroad in Europe. She discusses originally wanting to keep the baby but after weighing the realities of single motherhood with her parents, decided it was ultimately not the best choice for her or the baby.
“I was just starting out in my career and didn’t have the means to provide a stable home, even for myself,” she explains. “We decided as a family that I couldn’t go through with the pregnancy, and agreed that termination was the right choice. My heart was broken nonetheless.”
For the procedure, Thurman was accompanied by an older female friend in Germany who took her to a doctor’s office in Cologne. “It hurt terribly, but I didn’t complain,” she says of undergoing the procedure. “I had internalized so much shame that I felt I deserved the pain.”
Despite the emotional and physical hurdles of her abortion, Thurman is grateful she was able to have access to a safe procedure along with support from family and friends. In retrospect, she firmly believes that it helped set the stage for who she is today.
Bringing it back to the broader issue of anti-abortion laws in Texas and across the country, Thurman believes that the Supreme Court’s refusal to block the law ending most abortions in Texas is, in essence, “staging ground for a human rights crisis for American women.”
Not to mention it is inherently prejudiced given that it disproportionately impacts low-income Black and Latinx patients. “This law is yet another discriminatory tool against those who are economically disadvantaged, and often, indeed, against their partners,” she says.
“Women and children of wealthy families retain all the choices in the world, and face little risk.” She also addresses the odious bounty system that “pits citizen against citizen, creating new vigilantes who will prey on these disadvantaged women, denying them the choice not to have children they are not equipped to care for, or extinguishing their hopes for the future family they might choose.”
In shedding light on what it was like to have an abortion, and what it meant to her to be able to do so, Thurman hopes to help women and girls—especially those living in Texas—to shed shame, feel empowered to have agency over their bodies, and know that they are being seen and heard during this attack on their human rights.
“The abortion I had as a teenager was the hardest decision of my life, one that caused me anguish then and that saddens me even now, but it was the path to the life full of joy and love that I have experienced,” she writes. “Choosing not to keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be.”
For information on how to petition against the law or to support organizations and abortion-fund groups that will help patients leave Texas in order to receive care, you can find resources here, courtesy of the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.
Originally Appeared on Vogue
Uma Thurman Opens Up About Her Abortion and Speaks Out Against Texas’s New Law (yahoo.com)
May 22, 2022 My opinion: I wasn't going to post these abortion articles this week. However, yesterday I turned on the TV and CNN was reporting on this. I should post the remaining articles that are saved on my email and blog accounts.
May 25, 2022: I found this on Facebook:
"Billie Eilish slams Texas's abortion law during Austin City Limits show"/ "'Duck Dynasty' star Korie Robertson shared abortion stance in a blog"
Tracy's blog: "Billie Eilish slams Texas's abortion law during Austin City Limits show"/ "'Duck Dynasty' star Korie Robertson shared abortion stance in a blog" (badcb.blogspot.com)
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