Actress Uma Thurman slammed the new abortion law in Texas, calling the state’s restrictions a “staging ground for a human rights crisis for American women.”
Thurman, who revealed she got an abortion when she was in a relationship that was “not viable” with a much older man, called the law banning abortions after the detection of fetal heartbeats “yet another discriminatory tool against those who are economically disadvantaged, and often, indeed, against their partners.”
“I have followed the course of Texas’s radical antiabortion law with great sadness, and something akin to horror. … The Texas abortion law was allowed to take effect without argument by the Supreme Court, which, due in no small part to its lack of ideological diversity, is a staging ground for a human rights crisis for American women,” she wrote in a Wednesday op-ed for the Washington Post.
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Thurman took issue with a provision of the legislation allowing a person to file civil lawsuits against anyone who provides abortions or “aids or abets” in ending the pregnancy after the detection of a heartbeat.
“I am grief-stricken, as well, that the law 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,” she added.
The Texas Heartbeat Act, one of the strictest abortion laws in the United States, went into effect on Sept. 1 and bans all abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can occur as early as six weeks. The law does not make exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. The Supreme Court at first declined to intervene to stop the legislation’s implementation, later voting to allow the law to stand for the time being on Sept. 2.
The law has drawn criticism and legal action from the Left, including an emergency motion from the Department of Justice filed with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, which was then denied on Thursday.
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Even though Thurman called her abortion her “darkest secret until now,” she emphasized that she has “no regrets for the paths I have traveled.”
“To all of you — to women and girls of Texas, afraid of being traumatized and hounded by predatory bounty hunters; to all women outraged by having our bodies’ rights taken by the state; and to all of you who are made vulnerable and subjected to shame because you have a uterus — I say: I see you,” she wrote.
