Cheryl Burke recounted the abortion story for the first time and said she "wouldn't be sitting here" without it
The Dancing With the Stars pro discloses she had an abortion when she was 18 in a video posted to TikTok on Friday. Burke, 38, made clear his position on the US Supreme Court's revolutionary decision to oust Rowe vs....
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Cheryl Burke tells her story.
The Dancing With the Stars pro discloses she had an abortion when she was 18 in a video posted to TikTok on Friday.
Burke, 38, made clear his position on the US Supreme Court's revolutionary decision to oust Rowe vs. Wade on Friday, solemnly revealing in a new video on TikTok that he had an abortion when he was 18.
Sharing her experience, the Dancing With the Stars expert said: "I'm saddened by the news this morning, and it weighs on my heart because I had an abortion when I was 18. If places like Planned Parenthood didn't exist, I would be a mother, and I wouldn't be. I would be a great mother and wouldn't be sitting here with you today.
"They take away women's rights, our bodies, our freedom. Our bodies have nothing to do with anyone else, do they? So that's a decision we have to make," she added. She explains in the video that she decided to have an abortion at a point in her life when she was "going through a huge transition."
"I practice safe sex. "I've used protection, and I've used contraceptives, and it happens," she said. "I was two weeks pregnant when I had the abortion. I remember turning to Planned Parenthood with the picket holding the anti-abortion signs; that alone was traumatic. But above all, the whole process was traumatic, and you're now making it illegal." for us women to make decisions about our bodies is insane.
Burke added, "It's nobody's business, and I'm honestly glad I made the decision. I have no regrets, no shame behind it. I'm just choosing to share it now, but that doesn't mean I should be.
The Supreme Court announced its decision Friday morning to award Rowe v. Wade revoked a 1973 decision that delivered women the constitutional right to have an abortion leaving the power to allow or prohibit abortion in every state in the United States.
"We believe Rowe and Casey should be ousted," Judge Samuel Alito wrote in a majority opinion. "The constitution does not mention abortion, and any constitutional provision implicitly protects no such right."

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