Uma Thurman recounts her abortion as a teen in essay condemning Texas ban

Actor shares personal experience to draw flames of controversy away from vulnerable women'

Uma Thurman has railed against the horror" of Texas's draconian new abortion law and called for the ban to be lifted, as she opened up about an abortion she had as a teenager.

Writing for the Washington Post, the actor described her abortion publicly for the first time, calling it her darkest secret". She wrote about how she was accidentally impregnated by a much older man" in her late teens and decided to terminate the pregnancy.