I am absolutely pro choice - any suggestion that we are starting to go down the same route as the US in respect of abortion rights is one of the few things that would actually get me taking to the streets to prevent.
But this particular discussion has me torn - I agree that to not remember and to have had four or five abortions would make me concerned for any young women who found themselves in that position.
However, openly discussing abortion is not a bad thing - abortion as a subject is something that needs to be in the light - just like periods, peri-menopause and menopause are becoming more openly discussed and less taboo, abortion, as a valid women's health care choice needs to have the stigma removed, so fair play to Lilly for openly discussing it.
As an individual it is absolutely her business and right to do what she wants, but as a woman in the public eye, with a platform that gets attention, she has a responsibility to consider the impact of what she is sharing on girls and women everywhere.
If she just had one or two abortions and was discussing her reasons and any impact or non-impact would be brilliant for making the topic less taboo.
My fear is the not remembering how many and the blase attitude to having multiple abortions is just ammunition for the anti-choice crowd who claim that it is being used as birth control and want to curtail abortion rights.
When the pro-choice side argue back, the anti-choice crowd will just point to articles like the one in the Mail (because they won't have listened to the actual podcast) and say well Lilly Allen did so others will be too - and the right wing have much louder and more powerful voices than the centre and the left!