Comedian Chelsea Handler reveals she had two abortions at the age of 16

In an exceptionally honest confession, comedian and actress Chelsea has found out that she had abortions thru Planned Parenthood on the age of sixteen. Defending the proper for a girl to pick whether or not she terminates a pregnancy or no longer, Chelsea wrote approximately her very own abortions in an essay for Playboy's Freedom issue.

Entitling her written piece 'My Choice', Chelsea explained frankly how she probable wouldn't be in which she is these days if she hadn't had get admission to to a truthful choice.

Her sudden pregnancies, she recalled, took place at some point of a "very horrific stage in [her] life". She was feeling green with envy closer to her mother and father and was having unprotected sex with a boyfriend "who turned into now not a person I should've been having sex with within the first region, never mind unprotected sex".

And she admits it: she tousled. Twice. "I did not have simply one abortion; I had inside the same year, impregnated with the aid of the identical man," Chelsea wrote. "I did not have the money the second one time. I had to scrape together the $230 to pay Planned Parenthood, but it was a safe abortion."

Reflecting on her teenage moves, the Chelsea Lately megastar wrote: "Getting by accident pregnant extra than once is irresponsible, but it is nonetheless important to make a thoughtful decision.

"We all make mistakes all of the time. I occurred to fuck up twice on the age of sixteen. I'm thankful that I came to my senses and turned into capable of get an abortion legally without risking my health or bankrupting myself or my family. I'm forty one now. I do not ever look back and suppose, God, I want I'd had that baby."

So why, in 2016, are ladies in some nations and states nevertheless no longer given the choice? Why do they no longer have autonomy over their bodies?

Addressing the probability of the liberty of choice ever being completely taken far from girls in her united states of america, Chelsea said:

"Once you cross forward in records, you don't move backward. That might be like the government announcing, "Okay, we are doing away with your proper to vote too." You can't introduce a black individual and be like, "Oh, I just were given a slave!" That technology is over.

"You can't stop that. We've already made the decision... it's a wrap on guys determining what ladies can do with their our bodies."

Well stated from anyone who knows.

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