Uma Thurman reveals she had an abortion at 15 after ‘accidentally getting pregnant by a much older man’

UMA Thurman has revealed she had an abortion at 15 after accidentally getting pregnant by an older man.

The actress, 51, said it was her “darkest secret” in an op-ed for the Washington Post criticising the much maligned Texas anti-abortion law.

Uma Thurman has revealed she had an abortion at 15

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Uma Thurman has revealed she had an abortion at 15Credit: Getty

The Kill Bill star said she had been in a relationship at the time, however, she was under the age of consent.

She decided to have an abortion after a conversation with her parents, even though she had initially wanted to have the baby.

She explained: “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 childhood fantasy of motherhood was firmly corrected when I carefully weighed the responses to their precise questions.

“I was just starting out in my career and didn’t have the means to provide a stable home, even for myself. 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.”

Uma, who was a mother to three children through her relationships with actor Ethan Hawke as well as financier Arpad Busson has said that her abortion helped make her the mother she is today.

She said: “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. Choosing not to keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be.”

In May this year Texas passed a law banning abortion from as early as six weeks once the “fetal heartbeat” has been detected.

The law was put into effect when the Supreme Court refused to hear an urgent appeal from abortion providers.

As a teenager, the abortion that I had was the most difficult decision in my life.

Uma Thurman

It gives any individual the right to sue doctors who perform an abortion past the six-week point.

The Heartbeat Act was signed into law by Greg Abbott, Texas governor, in May 2021.

Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) requested that the Supreme Court stop the legislation.

On September 1, the ACLU confirmed that the court had “not responded to our request”, adding: “Access to almost all abortion has just been cut off for millions of people.”

The group have described the law as “blatantly unconstitutional.”

Texan women who wish to have an abortion after six weeks will need to travel across state lines to find a physician or clinic that can perform the procedure.

Uma, 51, has three grown up children

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Uma, 51, has three grown up childrenCredit: Getty

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