“Knowing now that more women won’t be able to seek safe termination and choose their bodies first is heartbreaking,” Meadow Walker wrote on Instagram on Friday.
Meadow Walker shares her abortion story after Supreme Court Rowe v. Wade was appointed on Friday.
In response to the decision, the late actor Paul Walker’s 23-year-old daughter revealed that she had an abortion in 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Today marks a major failure in history — a profound injustice for women in the United States,” Walker began. “There are many women who struggle with deciding to have an abortion. I also worked with choices, but in 2020, with the world collapsing during a pandemic, I sought an abortion.
He added that the decision should be “private and private.”
Praising his doctor at the time, Walker wrote, “I am fortunate to have great doctors who have supported me through a difficult process – with their help, I was able to become the happy also healthy person I am today.”
She continued, “Knowing that more women won’t be able to seek safe termination and choose their bodies first is heartbreaking. In a world where women are constantly marginalized, this feels like the most significant attack.
“Banning abortion doesn’t prevent abortion; it prevents safe abortion,” Walker concludes.
The model isn’t the only celebrity to share her abortion story after the Supreme Court ruling. Legendary actress Rita Moreno, 90, told Variety she nearly died of a miscarriage before Rowe v. Wade became law in 1973.
She remembers being pregnant with her boyfriend’s baby, Marlon Brando. He told her to have an abortion and “find a doctor through friends.
However, she was bleeding upon arriving home and later found the abortion incomplete.