Only by having an abortion at 15 was actress Busy Philipps able to find success in Hollywood, the performer claimed during a po-abortion rally Tuesday.
Philipps, who’s appeared on “Freaks and Geeks,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “ER,” as well as eponymous late-night talk show, “Busy Tonight,” spoke at the Center for Reproductive Rights’ rally outside the Supreme Court.
The event was co-organized with pro-abortion groups, Planned Parenthood and NARAL. The event was organized to coincide with the high court hearing a challenge to a Louisiana law requiring additional medical safeguards for abortion providers, which these activists argued curtailed their constitutional rights to abortion.
"There I was, sitting in Los Angeles in my beautiful office of my own late night talk show,” Philipps recounted at one point during her remarks. “Soon I would be driving my hybrid car to my beautiful f*cking home to kiss my two beautiful and healthy children and my husband, who had taken the year off to parent to I could focus on my career. And I have all of this, all of it, because, because, because I was allowed bodily autonomy at 15.“
Philipps said she’s proud to talk about her abortion: "I will never stop talking about my abortion or my periods or my experiences in childbirth, my episiotomies, my yeast infections, or my ovulation that lines up w/ the moon!"
At the same rally, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said pro-life politicians are trying to commercialize women’s bodies to make them “less than.”
Tlaib recalled telling such politicians: “Yo yo, you know what, you’re so freakin' obsessed with what I decide to do with my body, maybe you shouldn’t even want to have sex with me!” [Video]
Also at this rally, Sen. Chuck Schumer courted controversy after threatening two members of the Supreme Court.