MICHELLE Williams delivered a powerful speech about abortion as she won her award at the Golden Globes on Sunday, saying she “wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose.”
The pregnant actress was given Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television award for her role in Fosse/Verdon, but used her speech as a chance to share her political views.
The actress had the audience captivated as she appeared to hint at her own abortion experience in the past, and urged women to vote for the right to have that choice.
Her speech began: “I’m grateful for the acknowledgement of the choices I’ve made and I’m also grateful to have lived at a moment in our society where choice exists, because as women and as girls things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice.
“I’ve tried my very best to live a life of my own making and not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I could stand back and look at and recognise my handwriting all over…sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I had carved with my own hand.”
She continued: “And I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose. To choose when to have my children and with whom.
“When I felt supported and able to balance our lives knowing, as all mothers know, that the scales must and will tip towards our children.”
Michelle then added: “Now, I know my choices might look different than yours, but thank God or whomever you pray to that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my fate and you are free to live by yours.
“So women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self interest. It’s what men have been doing for years.”
She concluded: “It’s what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them.
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“But don’t forget we are the largest voting body in this country. Let’s make it look more like us.”
The star is currently expecting her first child with fiance Thomas Kail, and she is mother to 14-year-old Matilda whom she had with the late Heath Ledger.