Stranger Things' Maya Hawke Slams Supreme Court While Discussing Family History With Abortion
Stranger Things star Maya Hawke shared her unfiltered thoughts about the recent United States Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood. The actress held nothing back as she referred to her own family's history with abortion.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade after nearly five decades spurred protests and condemnation across the globe. Among the many celebrities to voice their outrage was Hawke, who joined the cast ofStranger Things during season 3.
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During an appearance on The Tonight Show, with a few obscenities here and there, encouraged by both Jimmy Fallon and the audience, Hawke discussed her mother's history with abortion, and how they discussed the topic following the news of the overturn. «We just got into talking about the Supreme Court ruling and this essay that my mom wrote a couple of months ago when they were putting these further restrictions on abortion access, and it was sort of preceding this whole thing,» Hawke said. «My mom wrote this really beautiful essay about her abortion that she got when she was really young, and about how if she hadn’t have had it, she wouldn’t have become the person that she’d become, and I wouldn’t exist, and how both of my parents' lives would’ve been totally derailed if she hadn’t had access to safe and legal health care — fundamental health care.»
Hawke, whose mother is Uma Thurman and whose father is Ethan Hawke, referred to Thurman's September 2021 Washington Post op-ed that discussed her experience with abortion. She also condemned Texas' abortion law, one of many anti-abortion laws that started the snowball effect that led the Supreme
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