‘I had an abortion on tour’: celebrities share abortion stories in backlash to Roe v Wade leak

TV stars, musicians and other high-profile women talk about their terminations, in wake of leaked US supreme court draft judgment

Television presenter Cathy Newman has become the latest high-profile woman to go public with her experience of having an abortion, as the possibility of the US supreme court overturning Roe v Wade sparks a defiant outpouring of testimony.

Posting on Twitter on Thursday, the Channel 4 News presenter wrote that she was sad to have had an abortion but had never for one second regretted it".