May 20, 2025, 8:00 PM ET

Abortion advocate Jennifer Lawrence: Having kids ‘changed my life… for the best’

In a recent interview, actress Jennifer Lawrence praised her positive experience with motherhood, despite how frequently she has advocated in favor of abortion.

Lawrence, an Oscar winner perhaps best known for her role as Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games” series, is a long-time abortion advocate and a married mother of two children who has also openly discussed her experiences with multiple miscarriages.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Actress Jennifer Lawrence, a staunch and vocal abortion advocate, claims women “need” abortion and that “random white men” make pro-life laws. She has marched in favor of on-demand abortion… while pregnant.
Lawrence has two children and has had at least two previous miscarriages. When she gave birth, she said she was “so in love” and “fell in love with all babies everywhere.”
In a recent interview, Lawrence claimed her children have “opened up the world” to her, changed her life “for the best,” and changed her “creatively” as an actress in a positive way.
Humans have an inherent right to life and do not obtain value when others begin to ‘feel’ a certain way about them.

THE CONTEXT:

Lawrence gave birth to her first child, a son, in 2022, and then a second child in 2025 — both with husband Cooke Maroney.

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In a new video from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, she spoke glowingly of her experience with motherhood.

“Having children changes everything. It changes your whole life. It’s brutal and incredible,” she said, adding:

And so not only do they go into every decision of, you know, if I’m working, where I’m working, when I’m working, they’ve taught me… I mean, I didn’t know that I could feel so much. And my job has a lot to do with emotion.

And they’ve opened up the world to me. It’s almost like feeling like a blister or something, like so sensitive.

So they’ve changed my life, obviously, for the best. And they’ve changed me creatively.

I highly recommend having kids if you want to be an actor.

THE BACKSTORY:

In a 2022 interview with Vogue, Lawrence said she first became pregnant in her early 20s, seemingly while she was in a long-term relationship with actor Nicholas Hoult, who starred with her in the “X-Men” film series. Lawrence said she had planned to get an abortion, but explained, “I had a miscarriage alone in Montreal.”

Once she married Maroney, their first pregnancy together resulted in another miscarriage, for which she needed to undergo a dilation and curettage (D&C).

So when her first child was born in 2022, she experienced something she never expected.

“The morning after I gave birth, I felt like my whole life had started over. Like, Now is day one of my life. I just stared. I was just so in love,” she told Vogue. “I also fell in love with all babies everywhere. Newborns are just so amazing. They’re these pink, swollen, fragile little survivors. Now I love all babies. Now I hear a baby crying in a restaurant and I’m like, Awwww, preciousssss.”

Yet, for all her talk about loving babies, Lawrence has also fiercely defended the idea that women need the so-called “right” to abortion — which intentionally kills preborn babies before they ever have the chance to cry.

WHY IT MATTERS:

Lawrence promotes abortion as a crucial ‘right’ while also promoting the idea of children and how motherhood changes one’s life for the better. But there’s a disconnect: she seems to believe the lie that the ‘wantedness’ of children or pregnancy is what gives children value.

“I remember a million times thinking about it while I was pregnant. Thinking about the things that were happening to my body. And I had a great pregnancy. I had a very fortunate pregnancy,” she said in her Vogue interview. “But every single second of my life was different. And it would occur to me sometimes: What if I was forced to do this?”

Just last year, Lawrence produced a documentary with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, which furthered pro-abortion propaganda about the supposed danger of pro-life laws.

“Women are dying,” she claimed, adding that her documentary would “enlighten people’s idea of what abortion is and why certain people need abortions — and why it’s so important to keep lawmakers out of families and out of people’s doctors’ offices… These laws are made by random white men and they’re not made by health care providers.”

Lawrence also marched in support of abortion on demand while she was pregnant.

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COMMENTARY:

It was largely “random white men” (who were not health care providers) who chose to legalize induced abortion nationwide in the U.S. in the first place — under Roe v. Wade. (It was also largely “random white men” who promoted population control, eugenics, and the sexual revolution.)

Women were not dying from a lack of abortions before Roe v. Wade, and they are not dying now because Roe is gone. Yet this claim continues to be made by abortion activists, even when some of the women allegedly killed by pro-life laws died after taking abortion pills.

The common reasoning from those who choose to promote abortion despite knowing the “preciousness” of life is that it’s about “choice” — not whether children or good or bad. But that argument is a non-sequitur.

The argument against abortion is not about whether or not women can choose what happens to their own bodies. The argument against abortion is that a “choice” to destroy the body of a preborn child (a distinct, living human being) who is living inside a woman’s uterus (the organ specifically designed to house a preborn child) is not a valid “choice” at all.

Sex has the biological potential to create new human beings. This is a known fact. But no human being is ‘forced’ into existence; not even an IVF lab can guarantee that fertilization will successfully occur every time. Therefore, if a woman becomes pregnant and doesn’t want to be, the ‘force’ exerted in that situation is the deliberate ending of a defenseless human life (by pill, by suction, by dismemberment, by lethal injection, etc), who came into existence through no action of his own.

THE BOTTOM LINE:

Human beings have an inherent right to life, in or out of the womb, regardless of the details of their conception or how much their mothers did (or did not) want them. Children do not obtain value when we begin to ‘feel’ a certain way about them or ‘assign’ them value. They are members of the human race and should not be deliberately destroyed.

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