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Britney Spears’ sister reveals pressure to have abortion when she was pregnant at 16

Actress, singer and sister of Britney Spears, Jamie Lynn Spears, revealed she experienced pressure to have an abortion when she was pregnant at 16. The 32-year-old contestant on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! told fellow contestants and viewers about her teen pregnancy. “When I first got pregnant… They didn’t want me to have the baby”, she said

The mother of two cried as she told fellow contestants that people around her “didn’t want me to have the baby”. Having been on a children’s television show, she spoke about the backlash that she faced when her pregnancy was announced by the media. “The whole world was like, ‘You’re a s**t, you’re horrible your life is over… Because I got pregnant young and I was on a kids’ show”, she shared.

“They didn’t want me to have the baby”

Despite the intense scrutiny of being in the public eye, she decided not to have an abortion and gave birth to her daughter, Maddie Briann Aldridge, who is now 15 years old. Spears also has a second daughter, five-year-old Ivey Joan. 

The American actress and sister of Britney Spears, came to fame in 2005 as the protagonist of the children’s television show Zoey 101 and in 2007, she drew the attention of the media when, at age 16, she became pregnant. 

Back in 2007, the Nickelodeon star spoke about how much of a shock it was for her and her daughter’s father, Casey Aldridge, to find out they were having a baby. “It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected. I was in complete and total shock and so was he”, she said

Aware of how much public interest there would be in her pregnancy, then 16-year-old Spears moved to Mississippi and “literally hid”. She recounted how she initially kept the news of her pregnancy to herself so that she would not be influenced by others in her decision to keep her baby. “Only one of my friends knew because I needed to work out what I would do for myself before I let anyone’s opinion affect my decision. Then I told my parents and my friends. I was scared, but I had to do what was right for me”, she shared.

Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said “Jamie Lynn showed great courage in deciding to have her baby at 16. It’s heartbreaking to imagine the difficulties she faced at such a young age, in the public eye, facing the pressure to have an abortion”. 

“Sadly, there are too many stories of young mothers facing pressure to have abortions. It seems more appropriate to praise young women, like Jamie Lynn, for their courage to continue their pregnancies in the face of such discrimination”.

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Thanks to the hard work and dedication of people like you across the UK, the McArthur assisted suicide Bill in Scotland was defeated in March by 69 votes to 57.

Then, in April, the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill fell in the House of Lords.

Many commentators thought both Bills would become law.

If that had happened, governments in England, Scotland and Wales would now be preparing to roll out assisted suicide services.

Over the coming decades, this would have led to the deaths of many thousands of vulnerable people.

But that is not what happened.

Because supporters like you acted, those Bills were stopped.

Because of you, many vulnerable lives have been saved.

These were two very significant victories. But sadly, they are not the last battles we face this year.

The new Parliamentary session begins this Wednesday. We now face three major threats.

  1. Attempts to bring back the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill and bypass the House of Lords

    The assisted suicide lobby, led by Dignity in Dying, a multi-million-pound pressure group, has made it clear that it is going to attempt to bring back the Leadbeater assisted suicide Bill in the next parliamentary session.

    It then plans to use the Parliament Acts to bypass the House of Lords and force the Bill into law.

  2. Labour Government plans for a major expansion of abortion provision, including financial incentives for ‘lunch-hour’ abortions

    Under these plans, the Government would financially incentivise major abortion providers, BPAS and MSI Reproductive Choices, to provide ‘lunch-hour’ or ‘same-day’ abortions.

    ‘Lunch-hour’ abortion services are walk-in abortion services designed to fit into a woman’s lunch hour.

    Women facing an unplanned pregnancy need time, care and support, not a system that gives abortion clinics a financial incentive to rush them through consultations, scans and abortions on the same day.

    If these plans go ahead, many more lives are likely to be ended by abortion here in the UK.

  3. Extreme abortion up to birth proposals in Scotland

    In Scotland, plans are moving forward to introduce an extreme abortion up to birth law. This would go far beyond the abortion law change recently backed by the Lords for England and Wales.

    A review of abortion law in Scotland, commissioned by Humza Yousaf when he was Scottish First Minister, recommended that the Scottish Government scrap the current 24-week time limit – and abortion be available on social grounds, including for sex-selective purposes, right up to birth.

    The final plans are expected to be brought forward as a Government Bill in the new Scottish Parliament, which begins this Thursday.

If these three major threats succeed, thousands of vulnerable lives will be lost.

We cannot allow this to happen.

We can only defeat these three major threats with your help.

We ran our biggest campaigns ever to help defeat the assisted suicide Bills at Westminster and in Scotland.

That work has made a serious dent in our limited resources.

To cover this gap and ensure we can effectively defeat these three major threats in the coming months, we are aiming to raise at least £199,250 by midnight this Sunday (17 May 2026).

We are, therefore, appealing to you to please give as generously as you can.

Every donation, large or small, will make a crucial difference in saving the lives of the unborn and many others. Plus, if you are a UK taxpayer, £1 becomes £1.25 with Gift Aid at no extra cost to you.

By stopping these threats, YOU can save lives during this new Parliamentary session.

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