An “open book.” Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Cheryl Burke candidly revealed she previously had an abortion when she was a teenager.“This is really hard for me to talk about,” the Dancing With the Stars pro, 38, explained in a Friday, June 24, Instagram video. “I am saddened by the news this morning and it weighs heavy in my heart because I had an abortion when I was 18 years old.”She continued: “If it wasn’t for places like Planned Parenthood, I would be a mother — and I wouldn’t have been a great mother and I definitely wouldn’t be sitting here today.
I got an abortion while I was going through a really huge transition in my life.”The California native — who announced her split from estranged husband Matthew Lawrence in February — explained that while she was practicing safe sex by using different forms of protection, including birth control, sometimes “s—t happens” accidentally.“I was two weeks pregnant when I got an abortion.
I remember rolling up to Planned Parenthood with picketers holding anti-abortion signs and that alone was traumatic,” Burke explained on Friday. “But on top of it all, the whole process is traumatic. … I’m happy that I made that decision.
I have no regrets. There is no shame behind it.”She added: “I think I made the right decision [because] I wouldn’t be sitting here [and] I wouldn’t be passionately doing what I love to do if it wasn’t for the right to have an abortion, and this has nothing to do with anybody else.”The “Burke in the Game” podcast host decided to share her abortion story on Friday, hours after the SCOTUS revealed they had overturned Roe v.
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