Rita Moreno Reflected On Her Botched Abortion In Response To The Supreme Court Overturning Roe V. Wade

However, following the procedure, Rita began to bleed and had to go to the hospital. "I had what they told me was a ‘disturbed pregnancy,’” she continued. “The doctor didn’t do anything really, except make me bleed. In other words, he didn’t do it right. I didn’t know it then, but I could have died. What a mess. What a dreadful mess.”