Hilarie Burton shared her abortion story on Tuesday, explaining how Roe v. Wade allowed her to “have miscarriages without scrutiny.”
The “One Tree Hill” alum, 39, reminded her Instagram followers that she “struggled with infertility” while trying to conceive her and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s now-4-year-old daughter, George.
“Losing multiple pregnancies before her was traumatic. But female bodies are all different and unpredictable,” the actress wrote. “Having an abortion after my fetus died allowed for my uterus to heal in a way that made it healthy enough to carry future pregnancies.”
Burton clarified that it “doesn’t matter” whether she uses the term dilation and curettage for the procedure, which cleared her uterine lining.
“I only have my daughter because of my abortion,” the actress wrote via Instagram.hilarieburton/Instagram“The official word on the hospital paperwork is abortion,” the former “Total Request Live” host explained. “That’s what it was. If abortion had been illegal, and law enforcement inspected my body to make sure I hadn’t caused my own miscarriage.”
Burton warned social media users that those days are “coming” now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, adding, “It’s already happened. It was commonplace before #roevwade.”
Burton gave birth to George in 2018.hilarieburton/InstagramAfter writing that she was “only” able to welcome her daughter because of her abortion, Burton concluded, “So f–k you very much to the Supreme Court. And f–k you to the ignorant right wing extremists who want my daughter to have fewer rights than what I was born with.”
The “Rural Diaries” author, who is also the mother of son Augustus, 12, has been vocal about her pregnancy losses over the years.
The “One Tree Hill” alum also shares son Augustus with Jeffrey Dean Morgan.Getty ImagesWhen George arrived in 2018, Burton wrote via Instagram that she and Morgan, 56, spent five years trying to conceive baby No. 2.
“When this pregnancy started, we were cautious,” the Virginia native noted at the time. “I didn’t want to celebrate for fear of jinxing it. I didn’t want a baby shower. I checked her heartbeat every day, up until the day she was born.”
Two years later, Burton told Us Weekly that fertility struggles placed stress on her marriage, explaining that she and the “Walking Dead” star processed the miscarriages in different ways.
“The false narrative that gets projected, especially by the celebrity angle is, ‘We went through this hard thing and it brought us closer together,'” Burton said at the time. “We can show how two very different sides eventually meet in the middle.”
