Jennifer Grey is the most recent in the long line of celebrities to bemoan Roe v. Wade being overturned, and while doing so to share her own experience with abortion.
The 62-year-old actress is best-known for portraying Baby in the 1987 drama “Dirty Dancing,” a film which is unapologetically pro-abortion and uses the issue as a major story arc. Grey spoke with the L.A. Times about the historic Supreme Court decision that’s been very difficult for Hollywood to accept.
“I feel so emotional,” she told the publication. “Even though I’ve seen it coming, even though we’ve been hearing what’s coming, it doesn’t feel real.”
She continued, discussing how her career would have suffered if she’d decided not to kill her unborn child.
“It’s such a grave decision. And it stays with you,” Grey continued, confirming that she feels she made the right choice.
“I wouldn’t have my life. I wouldn’t have had the career I had, I wouldn’t have had anything,” she said. “And it wasn’t for lack of taking it seriously. I’d always wanted a child. I just didn’t want a child as a teenager. I didn’t want a child where I was [at] in my life.”
The “Dirty Dancing” alum also alludes to the abortion in her memoir, “Out of the Corner,” which was released in May.
“When I try to imagine my own daughter at 16, playing house, essentially living with a grown-ass man, doing tons of blow, popping Quaaludes, and going to Studio [54] — not to mention being lied to, cheated on, then gifted with various and sundry STDs and unwanted pregnancies, it makes me feel physically ill,” she wrote in the book. “No teenager should be swimming in waters that dark.”
Grey did eventually go on to have a daughter, Stella, when she was 41.
As for Roe v. Wade’s reversal, the actress is not happy. “This is just so fundamentally wrong and it is sounding a bell for all women to rise up and use their voice now because we have assumed, since 1973, that our choice was safe and that it was never going to be overturned,” she continued.
The actress spoke about the portrayal of abortion in the movie, saying it highlighted the difference between wealthy and poor people and how their experiences differed.
“We saw someone who was hemorrhaging,” Grey said. “We saw what happens to people without means — the haves and the have nots. I love that part of the storyline because it was really a feminist movie in a rom-com. It was a perfect use of history.”
Source: Dailywire
