The actress spoke candidly about her abortion stance in the wake of Roe’s overturning

Following the Roe v. Wade decision, Jennifer Lawrence told Vogue her own tale of nearly having an abortion when she was just twenty-one years old. The actress disclosed that she ultimately required a dilation and cure (D&C) treatment, in which uterine tissue is removed, as a result of miscarriage she suffered during the filming of Don’t Look Up, when she and her spouse Cooke Maroney were attempting to conceive.

According to Vogue, Lawrence “one hundred percent intended” to have an abortion when she found out she was pregnant in her early 20s. She added, “I had a miscarriage alone in Montreal,” but before she could leave.

Years later, while filming Don’t Look Up, Lawrence experienced her second miscarriage and required a D&C.

The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade deeply enraged her. “I remember a million times thinking about it while I was pregnant,” she said. “Thinking about the things that were happening to my body. And I had a great pregnancy. I had a very fortunate pregnancy. But every single second of my life was different. And it would occur to me sometimes: What if I was forced to do this?”

Lawrence grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, in a conservative family. The 2016 election created a rift that she is still working to heal from.

“I just worked so hard in the last five years to forgive my dad and my family and try to understand: It’s different. The information they are getting is different. Their life is different,” she said. “I’ve tried to get over it and I really can’t. I can’t. I’m sorry I’m just unleashing, but I can’t fuck with people who aren’t political anymore. You live in the United States of America. You have to be political. It’s too dire. Politics are killing people.”

“I don’t want to disparage my family, but I know that a lot of people are in a similar position with their families,” she added. “How could you raise a daughter from birth and believe that she doesn’t deserve equality? How?”