Lily Allen laughs about abortion: ‘I can’t remember how many I’ve had’

Lily Allen has refused to apologise for boasting about her several abortions.

Speaking on her BBC podcast ‘Miss Me?’, the 40-year-old musician sang “Abortions, I’ve had a few…” to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’. She then admitted she “can’t remember” the number she has had, adding: “I want to say four or five”.

But following heavy criticism on social media, Allen claimed she would not feel “ashamed” about abortion and accused others of attempting to “control” her views.

‘Romantic’

Allen, who has daughters aged 12 and 13, had laughed about abortion and referred to it as “getting rid of the problem”.

She added: “I remember once getting pregnant and the man paying for my abortion, and me thinking it was so romantic”.

When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, Allen complained about people having to provide “reasons for having an abortion”, including to save the mother’s life.

She claimed: “‘Don’t want a baby’ is enough reason.”

Disability

Last month, Parliament voted to further liberalise abortion law in England and Wales, despite pleas to protect unborn children and their mothers.

MPs approved Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill to allow a woman in England and Wales to kill her unborn baby at any stage of pregnancy without sanction, by 379 votes to 137. They also rejected a proposal to reinstate in-person consultations under the pills-by-post scheme.

In Great Britain, abortion is currently permitted for most reasons up to 24 weeks, and up to birth if the unborn child is deemed to have a disability. If the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill becomes law, inducing a miscarriage outside of these exemptions will no longer be a crime for the mother.