A former member of the 2000s girl band Pussycat Dolls opened up for the first time on camera about the regret she has felt about her three “painful” abortions and encouraged other women to consider how “damaging” abortion can be.

In an appearance on Students for Life of America’s “Speak Out with Christine Yeargin” podcast, former Pussycat Dolls singer Kaya Jones detailed how she underwent three abortions for over a decade. Now 38, Jones had her first abortion at the age of 16, before she joined the girl group. “After the first one, you don’t think you’ve done anything wrong,” she explained. “Once you’ve crossed that line, it’s a very slippery slope to continue to cross those lines.”

Jones detailed her frame of mind when she had her first abortion, describing herself as “very young, in the music industry, not receiving any guidance other than what I believed.” She said she was on a birth control pill at the time and that it “didn’t work.” She added, “I didn’t feel that that was murder, if you will. I didn’t have any understanding of it. I didn’t speak to my family about it. I didn’t speak to anyone about it. I went and got it done, and I didn’t need anyone’s consent.”

Jones had a second abortion after she joined the Pussycat Dolls and became pregnant, recalling, “I was told to get rid of it.” She lamented, “at that point, because I had already gone through an abortion previously, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal.”

Jones previously discussed her experience with abortion in an interview with The Christian Post, focusing on her televised baptism in May 2021 and documenting the journey of her relationship with Jesus Christ. She did not specify at the time that she had had multiple abortions, but she mentioned that she was told to “get rid of it” and that it took place when she was singing with the Pussycat Dolls, indicating that she was talking about her second abortion.

“As someone who’s had an abortion, and I can contest to other women that I know who’ve had as well, we regret not having our child, our children, so … I do think that it’s a really important issue to be speaking on now more so than ever because people are glorifying it and they’re really giving you horrible advice,” she told CP.

She elaborated on her second abortion in the Students for Life of America podcast. “I actually hemorrhaged and was very ill,” she said.  Jones said that when she was 30, she was raped and impregnated by “someone I had been with in my past,” who “forced himself upon me.”

Jones said the Students for Life of America podcast was the first time she had spoken publicly about all three abortions. “Each one I’ve had to pray about, each one I’ve had to talk to God about, it has been a very private journey in getting my well-being mentally, emotionally, spiritually intact,” she said. Jones wants to impress upon young women how “damaging” abortion is.

Towards the end of the interview, Jones shared her belief that “children are a blessing from God.” “I hope to one day be able to be a mom. I hope to be a wife and to be able to share what I do believe is the greatest gift and ultimately the greatest job you will ever have on this planet as a woman is to be a mother,” Jones stated.