Lucifer’s Lesley-Ann Brandt had an abortion because she ‘wasn’t ready’ and ‘that’s good enough’

Lucifer star Lesley-Ann Brandt had an abortion because she ‘wasn’t ready’ to be a parent and ‘that’s good enough’ … in powerful essay for reproductive rights

By Caitlyn Becker For Dailymail.com

Published: 15:39 EST, 10 November 2021 | Updated: 03:38 EST, 12 November 2021

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Lucifer actress Lesley-Ann Brandt penned an emotional essay for Self about reproductive rights and revealed she had an abortion seven years ago.

The 39-year-old, who is now a mother of one, explained that at the time she first got pregnant she and her partner weren’t ‘ready’ to be parents and that was a ‘good enough’ reason to terminate the pregnancy. 

Brandt took to social media on Wednesday with a new selfie to support her stance on abortion rights by wearing an embroidered shirt with the words ‘my body my choice’ stitched in.

Her story: Lucifer actress Lesley-Ann Brandt penned an emotional essay for Self about reproductive rights and revealed she had an abortion seven years ago

‘People have abortions for many reasons,’ the television star wrote. ‘In my case, I simply wasn’t ready. That’s it, and that’s good enough. I didn’t want to be a mother at that moment in my life, so I made a decision that was best for me and my relationship.’

‘I could afford to have that abortion. I also had the means to start my family without skipping a beat in my career. Millions of women do not have those luxuries, with many being forced into a situation they don’t want and are not ready for,’ she added. 

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Lesley-Ann explained in the piece that at the time she was 32 and neither she nor her partner, Chris Payne, were prepared to become parents. 

When she told Chris, who Brandt would go on to marry, she ‘could hear the panic in his voice’. The star had already scheduled her abortion which Lesley-Ann said gave her ‘choice, autonomy over my own body, and opportunities in my career.’   

‘People have abortions for many reasons,’ the television star wrote. ‘In my case, I simply wasn’t ready. That’s it, and that’s good enough. I didn’t want to be a mother at that moment in my life, so I made a decision that was best for me and my relationship.’

‘The truth is that banning abortion will not stop abortion, it just makes already vulnerable people’s lives more difficult,’ Lesley-Ann wrote. ‘It stops safe abortion because, rest assured, wealthy people will still have access to abortion services. It is the poor who suffer.’

She also described in the piece her struggles during pregnancy with son Kingston, now four, as well as the tough times she faced post-partum.

Brandt returned to work less than two months after a traumatic labor and delivery since actors are not afforded paid maternity leave.   

‘I cried through feedings and thought about quitting more than once. I had to have a painful massage to unclog blocked ducts so as to avoid getting mastitis,’ she revealed.

‘The truth is that banning abortion will not stop abortion, it just makes already vulnerable people’s lives more difficult,’ Lesley-Ann wrote. ‘It stops safe abortion because, rest assured, wealthy people will still have access to abortion services. It is the poor who suffer.’

Her essay comes after actress Cecily Strong took a stance on abortion rights during an SNL skit over the weekend.

The sketch comedy star joined Weekend Update as Goober the Clown who had a ‘clown abortion’ as part of a social commentary on Supreme Court deliberations on the controversial and restrictive Texas abortion law. 

‘I wish I didn’t have to do this, because the abortion I had at 23 is my personal clown business. But that’s all some people in this country want to discuss all the time,’ Strong said in the episode dressed like a clown. 

‘Did you know one in three clowns will have a clown abortion in her lifetime? You don’t because they don’t tell you. They don’t even know how to talk to other clowns about it!’

She went on to add: ‘Years later, you’ll be at a dinner with a big group of clowns and one clown will go out on a limb and say she’s had an abortion. And then like eight other clowns at the table say they’ve had an abortion too because that’s how common it is!’

Hot topic: Her essay comes after SNL’s Cecily Strong joined Weekend Update as Goober the Clown who had a ‘clown abortion’ as part of a social commentary on Supreme Court deliberations on the controversial and restrictive Texas abortion law

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