Alyssa Milano says she had two abortions because she ‘was not ready to be a parent’

Milano, 46, explained when she got pregnant the first time in 1993 at 20 years old, she was not ready for all of the responsibilities that comes with motherhood.

“I knew at that time I was not equipped to be a mother and so I chose to have an abortion,” Milano said. “I chose. It was my choice and it was absolutely the right choice for me. It was not an easy choice. It was not something I wanted, but it was something that I needed, like most healthcare is.”

Milano said she refuses to allow anyone else’s “bullshit morality to force me into a life of premarital celibacy,” and refuses “the narrative that sexual pleasure is for men and that women exist to deliver that pleasure.”

“A few months later, I found out I was pregnant again. I had done what I knew to do to prevent pregnancy and was still pregnant, so once again I made the right decision to end that pregnancy,” she said, noting she was taking birth control pills at the time.

“The assault against women’s bodies over the last few years has forced me to reflect on what I would have lost if I never had my abortions,” Milano added, saying she would not have her career, her platform to fight oppression, or the children she has now at the time she was ready to be a mother.

Milano has been a strong advocate for abortions, recently leading the effort to have actors, actresses, and production companies boycott the state of Georgia after they passed a “heartbeat bill” into law. She also called for women to not have sex with men “until we get bodily autonomy back.”