*Actress Keke Palmer says she felt “disheartened” about the newly passed law in Alabama that effectively bans abortion.
Abortion-rights advocates are holding rallies across the country, protesting a wave of restrictive abortion laws passed by states in recent weeks.
Palmer, 25, has added her voice to the chorus of women who are sharing their own abortion stories. She hit up Twitter recently to explain why she decided to terminate a pregnancy.
“I was worried about my career responsibilities and afraid that I could not exist as both a career woman and mother,” she tweeted, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Hollywood is beginning to take action against Georgia in light of the state’s new abortion ban https://t.co/DE4esHjexk
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 22, 2019
Palmer has since deleted the tweet because the topic may have been too heavy for the Twitterverse.
“Twitter is sometimes too flat and too short to express intimate sentiments. Words without context, very annoying,” she wrote in a new tweet. “I am disheartened about hearing the news in Alabama. I feel as if women rights laws are going backwards. Individual choice is being taken. I’m truly so confused at the world [right now] and the policies that follow.”
Twitter is sometimes too flat and too short to express intimate sentiments. Words without context, very annoying.
— Keke Palmer (@KekePalmer) May 16, 2019
I am disheartened about hearing the news in Alabama. I feel as if women rights laws are going backwards. Individual choice is being taken. I’m truly so confused at the world rn and the policies that follow. #YouKnowMe
— Keke Palmer (@KekePalmer) May 16, 2019
As noted by PEOPLE, Palmer added #YouKnowMe to the end of her tweet, the hashtag Busy Philipps started to encourage women to share their abortion stories.
“Making individual choices is not a betrayal to your faith,” she said. “Mainly, because God knows your heart and your journey. God never judges. I hate that it’s always a this vs that, instead of an ‘I understand YOUR PERSPECTIVE.’ ”
Making individual choices is not a betrayal to your faith. Mainly, because God knows your heart and your journey. God never judges. I hate that it’s always a this vs that, instead of an “I understand YOUR PERSPECTIVE.”
— Keke Palmer (@KekePalmer) May 16, 2019
After the Alabama bill was signed into law, multiple states, including Georgia, Ohio and Kentucky, followed suit and passed similar laws that ban women from having abortions after six weeks.
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