Hilarie Burton.Photo: LISA O’CONNOR/AFP/Getty
Hilarie Burtonis joining countless women who are sharing their abortion stories amid theSupreme Court’s reversal ofRoe v. Wade, which eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion.
TheOne Tree Hillalum, 39, shared a photo of her daughterGeorge, 4, playing on Instagram on Tuesday, recalling in the caption that she had an abortion after a pregnancy loss.
“This is my child. My beloved. My daughter,” the actress, who also shares son Augustus, 12, with husbandJeffrey Dean Morgan,wrote. “It is no secret I struggled with infertility. Losing multiple pregnancies before her was traumatic. But female bodies are all different and unpredictable.”
She continued, “Having an abortion after my fetus died allowed for my uterus to heal in a way that made it healthy enough to carry future pregnancies. It doesn’t matter if you use the term D&C. The official word on the hospital paperwork is abortion. That’s what it was.”
Burton went on to say the “painful day” would have been “worse” if abortions were illegal “and law enforcement inspected my body to make sure I hadn’t caused my own miscarriage. Cause that’s what’s coming.”
“[Roe] V Wade protected my rights as a woman to have miscarriages without scrutiny,” Burton said, adding that she’s received messages from her supporters who have also suffered pregnancy losses.
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Added Burton: “I only have my daughter because of my abortion.”
Ending with a pointed message, Burton wrote, “So f— you very much to the Supreme Court. And f— you to the ignorant right wing extremists who want my daughter to have fewer rights than what I was born with.#wewillnotgoback”
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In a 6-to-3 vote on Friday, the Supreme Court overturned 1973’sRoe v. Wade. The decision lets individual states choose whether to allow abortions, and will likely lead to all but total bans on the procedure in nearly half of the country.
source: people.com
