Chelsea Handler Fighting Abortion Shame By Telling Her Story
Even though 1 in
3 women in the
United States get an abortion by the time they're 45 years old not many women talk about it,
Chelsea Handler is breaking that mold.
Celebrity Chelsea Handler recently wrote about getting two abortions at the age of 16 in an essay published in
Playboy magazine.
Cenk Uygur and
Ana Kasparian, hosts of
The Young Turks, break it down.
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"One in three women in the United States will have an abortion before age 45. But despite how frequently the people around us end pregnancies — either wanted or unwanted ones — our society is pretty hush-hush about the experience.
Having an abortion is not something to be ashamed of, but that doesn’t mean that it’s openly and widely discussed. That’s why we’re grateful for talk show host Chelsea Handler for writing an essay in
Playboy about having not one, but two, abortions when she was 16.
Chelsea became pregnant by a bad-news boyfriend “who was not someone I should’ve been having sex with in the first place, never mind unprotected sex,” she wrote. When she realized she was pregnant, she actually thought of becoming a teenaged mother. And while that’s certainly a decision that’s right for some women,
Chelsea’s parents could see that their daughter wasn’t mature enough yet for all the responsibilities of parenthood. Chelsea wrote:
“[T]he idea that I would have a child and raise it by myself at that age, when I couldn’t even find my way home at night, was ridiculous. My parents recognized that, so they acted like parents for one of the very first times in my life and took me to
Planned Parenthood. I felt parented, ironically, while I was getting an abortion. And when it was over, I was relieved in every possible way.“*
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