Lily Allen reveals she had an abortion in impassioned post

‘I didn’t want a baby and that’s reason enough’: Lily Allen reveals she had an abortion and says women shouldn’t have to ‘justify’ having a termination

  • Lily, 37, revealed that she previously terminated a pregnancy as she discussed the reaction surrounding the Roe v Wade ruling 
  • The mother-of-two called on people to stop sharing ‘exceptional reasons’ to have an abortion, stating: ‘We don’t have to justify it’
  • For help and support with pregnancy options in the UK please call the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) on 03457 30 40 30
  • If you are in the US please call Planned Parenthood on 1-800-230-PLAN

Lily Allen has revealed she had an abortion as she hit out at the Roe v. Wade ruling that has allowed individual US states to decide whether to make abortion illegal.

After the ruling was overturned there was an intense backlash from around the world, with an outpouring of women sharing their own stories about having a termination. 

In a candid Instagram post on Thursday, Lily, 37, revealed that she too had an abortion in the past but called on women to stop feeling as though they needed to ‘justify’ their decisions to terminate a pregnancy. 

Candid: Lily Allen has revealed she had an abortion as she hit out at the Roe v. Wade ruling that has allowed individual US states to decide whether to make abortion illegal (pictured in April)

Lily – who shares daughters Marnie, eight, and Ethel, nine  with ex-husband Sam Cooper – wrote: ‘I wish people would stop posting examples of exceptional reasons for having abortions. 

‘Most people I know, myself included, just didn’t want to have a f***ing baby and that is reason enough. We don’t have to justify it. 

‘It shouldn’t have to be said, and I think all these examples just play into the hands of the baddies.’

Lily, who married second husband David Harbour in 2020 and revealed at the time the couple were planning on extending their family, did not disclose when she had her termination. 

Speaking out: Lily – who is mother to Marnie, eight, and Ethel, nine – called on women to stop feeling as though they needed to ‘justify’ their decisions to terminate a pregnancy (pictured in May with her children and husband David Harbour) 

Lily penned: ‘Most people I know, myself included, just didn’t want to have a f***ing baby and that is reason enough. We don’t have to justify it’

In 2008 Lilly suffered a miscarriage with then partner Ed Simmons from the Chemical Brothers. 

Two years later Lily tried for a baby with then husband Sam but lost her baby at six months pregnant and was left fighting for her life due to blood poisoning. 

Speaking about the ordeal she said: ‘I nearly died. But I was so numb and I didn’t care. I’d just lost my baby and that is how numb I was.’ 

Lily who was rushed to hospital with septicemia admitted: ‘It’s something that I still haven’t dealt with. I will never get over it. I have dealt with it, you know as being at one with it. But it’s not something you get over.

‘I held my child and it was really horrific and painful – one of the hardest things that can happen to a person.’

Following a successful operation Lily was able to physically recover and went on to have her two daughters.

Making a statement: Lily’s impassioned post comes after she appeared on stage during Olivia Rodrigo’s Glastonbury performance on Saturday to sing Lily’s 2009 hit F**k You in response to the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade

Lily’s impassioned post comes after she appeared on stage during Olivia Rodrigo’s Glastonbury performance on Saturday to sing Lily’s 2009 hit F**k You in response to the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade.

American singer Olivia, 19, took to The Other Stage at Worthy Farm where she said she was ‘devastated and terrified’ by the ruling which ended the constitutional right to abortion in the US, meaning individual states could decide whether abortion can be made illegal.

She said: ‘I’m devastated and terrified [by the ruling] and so many women and girls are going to die because of this and I wanted to dedicate this next song to the five members of the Supreme Court who showed us at the end of the day they truly don’t give a s*** about freedom.’

After her words prompted huge applause from the audience, Olivia went on to address the Supreme Court justices individually, saying: ‘This song goes out to the justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh.’ 

Lily was seen giving the middle finger as she stood on stage, before saying: ‘We hate you guys!’ as the pair launched into the expletive-filled song.

The Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion that have been in place for nearly 50 years by deciding to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling and hand back power to individual states to decide whether or not to permit the procedure.

The justices held that the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that allowed abortions performed before a fetus would be viable outside the womb – between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy – was wrongly decided because the U.S. Constitution makes no specific mention of abortion rights.

The ruling means that individual states now have the power to decide on whether to ban abortion. The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research group, has said that 26 states are ‘certain or likely’ to ban abortion now.

Heartbreaking: Lily tried for a baby with ex husband Sam Cooper in 2010 but lost her baby at six months pregnant and was left fighting for her life due to blood poisoning (pictured in 2009)

The decision means that women with unwanted pregnancies in large swathes of America will now face the choice of traveling to another state where the procedure remains legal and available, buying abortion pills online or having a potentially dangerous illegal abortion.

In an address at the White House, President Joe Biden said it was ‘a sad day for the court and the country’ and called the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade – and making terminations illegal for millions of American women – ‘wrong, extreme and out of touch’.

Accusing the court of ‘expressly taking away a constitution right that is so fundamental to so many Americans’, Biden vowed the fight over abortion rights ‘is not over’ and said his administration will do everything in its power to combat efforts to restrict women from travelling to other states to obtain abortions.

For help and support with pregnancy options in the UK please call the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) on 03457 30 40 30. 

If you are in the US please call Planned Parenthood on 1-800-230-PLAN.

Distressing: In 2008 Lilly suffered a miscarriage with then partner Ed Simmons from the Chemical Brothers (pictured in 2008) 

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