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Let’s Talk About Uma Thurman’s Abortion (Since She Is)
I live in Texas where obtaining an abortion after six weeks of gestation is problematic due to a new law that allows citizens to sue those individuals that facilitate an abortion. (Disclosure: I don’t know enough about the law to intelligently comment on it specifically, but I am pro-life so it seems fine to me. Also, I volunteer at and financially support my local crisis pregnancy center.)
Ms. Thurman wrote a piece in the Washington Post revealing her own teenage abortion while complaining that the Texas law creates a human rights crisis. Since Ms. Thurman has revealed such personal information, I have a few questions, comments, and rank speculations about it.
1. Check out the following passage:
“I started my acting career at 15, working in an environment where I was often the only kid in the room. In my late teens, I was accidentally impregnated by a much older man. I was living out of a suitcase in Europe, far from my family, and about to start a job.”
“Late teens,” “impregnated by a much older man”- notice how vague she is here. My speculation – she was underage and had been impregnated by some executive who worked in the “film industry”. Hollywood is a cesspit. If she was more forthright about the true nature of the situation, the story would likely turn to the abuse of a teen girl and the abortion as a cover-up for the “much older man”. Given that many abortions are sought under just these circumstances, Uma doesn’t want to take the spotlight off the women’s empowerment angle to pivot to the sexual predator angle.
2. Also note that she was “about to start a job” and “was just starting out in my career” at the time. Once again, the true nature of abortion is revealed. It’s largely about convenience for the mother and avoiding the “time out” in life it takes to gestate a baby.
3. This passage:
” [the abortion] was the path to the life full of joy and love that I have experienced. Choosing not to keep that early pregnancy allowed me to grow up and become the mother I wanted and needed to be.” (For her other three children that survived the trip out of her womb.)
Selfish, selfish people! And, now that she is an over-the-hill actress (Hollywood is brutal for women over age 30), I wonder if she will ever regret the absence of the love and joy (and maybe even the heartbreak) of a child that she did not permit to be born? Maybe she doesn’t and maybe she won’t, but my guess is, as the years roll on, age will clarify to her the real things in life over the accolades of a fickle industry and box-office paychecks.
4. Why, in these discussions, doesn’t anybody point out that teens/young pregnant women do not have to actually raise the child? I have been a part of a number of adoptions. I did one adoption for a teenage girl in which she had the baby, put the baby in the care of the selected adoptive parents, and was discharged from the hospital within 24 hours. I went to the young lady’s home a few days after birth to get the final relinquishment signed. She was literally getting dressed to go to her senior prom and if you didn’t know it, you would have never known she had just had a baby. This is why I say these starlets are selfish – they want the career so badly and they can’t even be bothered to give the baby life and place them for adoption.
How many Hollywood actresses have shouted their abortions and praised it for allowing them the life they now have? How many Hollywood actress wannabes have had abortions due to “Weinstein” type circumstances and never made it big? So many other women tell stories of being grateful that they did not go through with an abortion and find joy in their child. Much like suicide, abortion is a permanent solution to a temporary problem or set of circumstances.
I am sad for Uma Thurman. But mostly I am sad for Ms. Thurman’s child that never took a breath of air due to her “choice”.
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There is no such thing as consensual sex with a fifteen-year-old. If they get pregnant it was because they were raped.
Clearly:
Once a pharmaceutical rep, always a pharmaceutical rep.
They?
Yes, it applies to all children.
If the boyfriend is less that 4 years older than the girl, it’s not rape. Rape has become a technical term, not an act.
If they’re both minors it’s a whole different matter. That’s not usually the case.
Actually I think it’s the vast majority of cases. I don’t have numbers but almost all the teens I know or have ever known were sexually active with peers.
Let’s consider some other area of human life and see how they compare with Abortion.
For medical procedures, outside of a genuine life-threatening emergency, parents or guardians are required to consent to the medical treatment of a minor. This is an ironclad rule. Even in an emergency, the doctor usually needs to confer with another doctor to confirm the treatment, and they need to notify the parents promptly. If there is suspicion of abuse, the police and CPS need to be informed.
Abortion can be done on a minor even if the parents refuse consent. The parents do not need to be notified, despite the fact that it is a surgical procedure that can have dangerous consequences. I believe abortion laws even supersede mandated reporter rules – if there is suspicion of sexual abuse, they do not need to report it. (As a side note, if the mother delivers, the father is on the hook for support. If the mother wants to abort, the father is not given any say in the decision)
Let’s consider the status of a fetus. Fairly early in pregnancy, the fetus demonstrates a heartbeat, brain activity, and response to stimuli. This status is consistent with all of the signs of life recognized by physicians. If a patient on a ventilator and nutrient drip showed brain activity, a steady heart beat, and reactions / reflexes, no doctor would say the patient is dead or no longer alive. Yet abortion is allowed well past this stage, even including viable full-term babies
In animal research, you need to avoid inflicting suffering whenever possible. Unless the research requires it, you need to kill animals quickly and humanely. This also applies to slaughter of livestock. Now, given that fetuses can clearly show reaction to pain, one would expect that there would be a requirement to kill the fetus humanely. There is no requirement for humane practices or consideration for fetal suffering in abortion practice. So calling abortionists butchers is an insult to butchers.
I vehemently disagree. Planned parenthood performs more abortions on underage girls impregnated by older men than the number of teen on teen pregnancies by an astronomical margin. We’ve got decades of evidence of this.
I was referring to sex, not abortion specifically. Perhaps abortions aren’t as popular when resulting from sex between teens. I don’t know.
Teen sex is down.
Teen face to face interaction with other teens is down.
It appalls me that we can have a long discussion about rape and William Jefferson Clinton’s name is never mentioned once. Another example of how we never honor our former leaders with the disrespect they deserve.
“In June 2018, it was reported that (Uma) Thurman was getting help from the former Swedish Minister for Justice, Thomas Bodström, to gain Swedish citizenship. Thurman has ancestry from Skåne, Sweden, and wants to move there.”
According to wikipedia, Sweden was the third Western country to legalize abortion in 1974 after the United States and Denmark did the previous year. Apparently the first country to legalize abortion was that beacon of freedom and human rights North Korea in 1950 while the Korean War was starting, I guess. (Interestingly, South Korea along with Argentina and Thailand were the most recent countries to legalize abortion in the year 2021 even though South Korea has the lowest fertility rate on the planet at between 0.8 and 1.09; I guess legalizing abortion will only cause the number to go down even more.) North Korea was followed by Hungary in 1953, the former Soviet Union countries in 1955, and Cuba in 1965.
However, unlike the United States, the country of Sweden does not allow abortions after the 18th week of the baby’s development except in cases to protect the life and health of the mother.
Interesting Sweden and the United States are right next to each other on the abortion rate chart: Sweden: 20.2 abortions per per 1,000 women; United States 20.8 abortions per per 1,000 women.
I thought Northern Europe was the location with the fewest abortions in the world, but I guess Northern Europe (17 per 1,000) is the #3 region behind Western Europe (12 per 1,000) and Southern Africa (15 per 1,000), based upon 2012 statistics. With the worst locations being Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, Eastern Africa, Southeast Asia, and Middle Africa.
But those other “masks” are pretty uncomfortable…
Not if the male was also under 18. At least according to the law.
Face to face isn’t the problem.
Sorry, hadda.
Linda Blair has sort of similar story – I believe she was “living with” some producer or whatever prior to and during the filming of The Exorcist. She was 15. That, for me, ruins some part of an intense supernatural horror film because, yeah, yeah, I know it’s a movie, but knowing that part of the player’s life takes any innocence from the character she played.
As for Uma Thurman, she’s the little girl in the Art of Noise video… not long after she’s obviously been charmed by a Clare Quilty who, no doubt, stalked her since then. Maybe she relived the experience for her role in Dangerous Liaisons, who knows?
Hollywood is full of the most awful people who occasionally/used to make some watchable movies. Perhaps I’d rather not know.
her role in Dangerous Liaisons
I felt like I was watching a documentary when I saw that movie. Like all of Hollywood was in on the gag:
“Hey! Why don’t we make a movie about the casting couch and dress it up as a French period piece?”
Maybe that’s what the writer had in mind, and nobody else noticed?