“We loud mouths are going to have to get busy.”
“I’m really nervous and frightened and horrified that this is taking place,“she toldVariety.
However, Moreno began bleeding during the procedure.
Rita Moreno.Amy Sussman/Getty
“Marlon took me to the hospital.
I had what they told me was a ‘disturbed pregnancy,'” Moreno said.
“The doctor didn’t do anything really, except make me bleed.
In other words, he didn’t do it right.
I didn’t know it then, but I could have died.
What a dreadful mess.”
“I can see that thing happening now and going back to back alleys,” she said.
“I’m not shocked because I saw it coming, but I’m stunned.”
TheWest Side Storystar toldVarietythat she’s most concerned for young girls in this newly restrictive landscape.
“Taking it to the most extreme, girls who get pregnant because of rape or incest.
Unfair isn’t a strong enough word, but it’s unfair.”
Moreno said she plans to keep advocating for safe and legal access to reproductive health care.
“We loud mouths are going to have to get busy.
There are many of us.
I’m thinking what are we going to do about this?
If anything, this has reactivated us.”
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