{"id":16551,"date":"2023-01-18T09:41:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=16551"},"modified":"2023-03-16T16:16:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T20:16:38","slug":"former-pussycat-dolls-singer-opens-up-about-abortion-experiences-youll-regret-it-your-whole-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/01\/former-pussycat-dolls-singer-opens-up-about-abortion-experiences-youll-regret-it-your-whole-life","title":{"rendered":"Former Pussycat Dolls Singer Opens Up About Abortion Experiences: “You’ll Regret It Your Whole Life”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A former member of the 2000s girl band Pussycat Dolls opened up for the first time on camera about the regret she has felt about her three “painful” abortions and encouraged other women to consider how “damaging” abortion can be.<\/p>\n

In an appearance on Students for Life of America’s “Speak Out with Christine Yeargin”\u00a0podcast<\/a>, former Pussycat Dolls singer Kaya Jones detailed how she underwent three abortions for over a decade. Now 38, Jones had her first abortion at the age of 16, before she joined the girl group. “After the first one, you don’t think you’ve done anything wrong,” she explained. “Once you’ve crossed that line, it’s a very slippery slope to continue to cross those lines.”<\/p>\n

Jones detailed her frame of mind when she had her first abortion, describing herself as “very young, in the music industry, not receiving any guidance other than what I believed.” She said she was on a birth control pill at the time and that it “didn’t work.” She added, “I didn’t feel that that was murder, if you will. I didn’t have any understanding of it. I didn’t speak to my family about it. I didn’t speak to anyone about it. I went and got it done, and I didn’t need anyone’s consent.”<\/p>\n

Jones had a second abortion after she joined the Pussycat Dolls and became pregnant, recalling, “I was told to get rid of it.” She lamented, “at that point, because I had already gone through an abortion previously, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal.”<\/p>\n