Jemima Kirke (best known as Jessa from “Girls”) has filmed a pro-abortion PSA with the Center for Reproductive Rights, an organization that seeks to make abortion and other reproductive healthcare “basic human rights” that can be publicly funded.
While Kirke never explicitly advocates for public funding of abortions in the film, she talks about her own unplanned pregnancy in 2007, and how she could only afford the procedure by foregoing anesthesia. “The anesthesia wasn’t that much more, but when you’re scrounging for however many hundreds of dollars, it is a lot,” she says. “I just didn’t have it.”
At the time, Kirke was attending school in Providence, Rhode Island. “Because I couldn’t tell my mother that I was pregnant, I had to pay for it out of pocket,” she explains. “I did have to empty my checking account, what I had in there, and get some from my boyfriend.”
“We think we do have free choice, and we are able to do whatever we want, but then there are these little hoops we have to jump through to get them,” she says, condemning the “obstacles” and “stigma” surrounding abortion.
Watch below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1DhscWRT9w
