| Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman began her acting career at the age of 15, and was accidentally impregnated by an older man while in her late teens. In this personal — and at times painful — op-ed, she writes about how Texas's new abortion law, which effectively bans abortion after about six weeks, motivated her to speak out about her own experience terminating a pregnancy. "It has been my darkest secret until now," Thurman writes. "I am 51 years old, and I am sharing it with you from the home where I have raised my three children. … The abortion I had as a teenager was the hardest decision of my life, one that caused me anguish then and that saddens me even now, but it was the path to the life full of joy and love that I have experienced." Calling the Texas law "a staging ground for a human rights crisis for American women," Thurman explains: "I have nothing to gain from this disclosure, and perhaps much to lose. In revealing the hole that this decision carved in me, I hope that some light will shine through, reaching women and girls who might feel a shame that they can't protect themselves from and have no agency over."  (Kailey Whitman for The Washington Post) I have followed the course of Texas's radical antiabortion law with great sadness, and something akin to horror. By Uma Thurman ● Read more » | | | | Nobody left can stop Republican "crazies" from sabotaging Americans' prosperity. By Dana Milbank ● Read more » | | | We need help. Help is arriving. Why not make a virtue of necessity? By Kathleen Parker ● Read more » | | | | And the GOP will eagerly accept it. By Henry Olsen ● Read more » | | | | It took China four decades to recover from Mao's social engineering. Now, its leader is following Mao's messianic, authoritarian path. By David Ignatius ● Read more » | | | | How right wing media propaganda helps Trump and his supporters weaken democracy. By Greg Sargent ● Read more » | | | | Female voters to the GOP: Be careful what you wish for. By Karen Tumulty ● Read more » | | | Why didn't we trust pregnant people to make decisions about participating in vaccine trials? By Sarah N. Cross ● Read more » | | | | If August was the worst month of his presidency, September is not looking much better. By Marc A. Thiessen ● Read more » | | | |
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