Girls Star Jemima Kirke Opens Up About Her Abortion

Jemima Kirke has spoken out about the abortion she had in college in an effort to help protect women’s access to safe and legal reproductive health care.

The 29-year old Girls actress appears in a PSA for ‘Draw the Line’ in which she opens up about her own abortion in 2007 while she was a college student in Rhode Island.

"I wasn't sure that I wanted to be attached to this person for the rest of my life," Kirke explains of her decision. "My life was just not conducive to raising a happy, healthy child. I just didn't feel it was fair. So I decided to get an abortion."

Kirke says she didn't use anesthesia during the procedure to save money.

"I had to empty my checking account, whatever I had in there, and I had to get some from my boyfriend," she says, adding that she kept the procedure a secret from her mother. "The anesthesia was only, it wasn't that much more, but when you're scrounging for however many hundreds of dollars, it is a lot. I just didn't have it."

Kirke hopes to empower women with her message, as well as her own children: the star has an 8-year-old stepdaughter, 4-year-old daughter, Rafaella, and 2-year-old son, Memphis.

"I'm already anticipating their issues with self-esteem, their issues with their body, the whole luggage that comes with being a woman," Kirke said. "I would love if when they're older and they're in their teens or in their 20s, that the political issues surrounding their body were not there anyone. That they have one less thing to battle around their bodies."

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