With Election Day just six months away, candidates and voters are speaking out about the issues that matter to them. And for many women, abortion access and reproductive rights are among the most important topics.
In Refinery29/ABC News' Vote Your Values poll, 11% of millennial women listed abortion access as the issue they cared about most this election year.
Celebrities are no exception — plenty of A-listers have shared what they believe about politics over the years. Stars like Lena Dunham and Maggie Gyllenhaal, for example, have expressed their support for abortion access.
The 2016 presidential candidates also have strong opinions about reproductive rights. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders support access to safe and legal abortion, while Donald Trump has said he is "totally against" the procedure.
We've rounded up what some of Hollywood's biggest stars have said about abortion access and reproductive rights. We'll be updating this list with more celebrities' opinions, so be sure to check back as the election season continues.
Scarlett Johansson
"There are countries at war, there's terrorism, global warming, and we're like, 'We should definitely cut the budget for Planned Parenthood. Let's take away the availability of women's health initiatives!'…It's nuts," Johansson said to Cosmopolitan earlier this year. "We're talking about preventing cervical and breast cancers. Growing up, I used [PP's] services. All my girlfriends did — not just for birth control, but for Pap smears and breast exams. You read about the rise of back-alley abortions, women having to mutilate themselves, and teenagers having to seek help in unsafe conditions, and for what? We're moving backward when we're supposed to be moving forward."
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Lena Dunham
"The quest for reproductive care can be lonely, scary, and crushingly expensive," Dunham wrote in an op-ed for Time in April. "As someone with a chronic reproductive illness who frequently receives treatment from kind, expert doctors and nurses, I believe all women and girls — even if they aren't on premium cable — deserve that same level of care."
Dunham has also spoken about reproductive rights in the past, expressing her support for Planned Parenthood and arguing that women deserve access to reproductive health care.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
"In the States, there's a huge anti-abortion movement that just shocks me," Gyllenhaal told the U.K.'s Stylist magazine in 2014. "I believe a woman should have the right to choose whether or not she has a baby. I have two babies, it's no f***ing joke! If you don't want an abortion, fine, but if I want one, that's my right."
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Sarah Silverman
"I've never had an abortion, and I don’t know if I would," Silverman told Bill Maher in 2014. "But it doesn't mean that I wouldn't fight to the death for women to make their own choices for their own human bodies."
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Mark Ruffalo
"There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress," Ruffalo said at a reproductive rights rally in 2013. "Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time."
In 2014, the Center for Reproductive Rights also released a video in which Ruffalo shared the story of his mother's illegal abortion.
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