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Chelsea Handler is known for her humor — and now she's exposing why she doesn't think unwanted pregnancy is a joke.
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The former
Chelsea Lately host penned an essay for
Playboy in defense of a woman's right to an abortion, admitting that she had two because she "happened to f**k up twice at the age of 16."
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She went on to detail that she was having unprotected sex with her boyfriend at the time, and got pregnant twice. She thought she could raise the babies, but her parents thought otherwise and took her to Planned Parenthood.
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"I felt parented, ironically, while I was getting an abortion," she wrote. "And when it was over, I was relieved in every possible way."
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"I’m 41 now," she explained in her explosive statement. "I don’t ever look back and think, God, I wish I’d had that baby."
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"Even if there is a God," she noted, "I highly doubt he wants everybody to go through with their pregnancies."
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"Anybody who carefully decides not to become a parent—let alone a bad parent, which is what I would have become—should be applauded for making a smart and sustainable decision," she concluded.
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