Kaya Jones, a former singer with chart-topping pop group, The Pussycat Dolls, is to speak at the pro-life Rally for Life in Dublin next month, where she will address an expected crowd of thousands on the issues of abortion regret and the exploitation of women.
Ms Jones, who developed her career as a solo artist after leaving The Pussycat Dolls won a Grammy in 2019 for her collaboration with gospel artist Jason Crabb – but says that the fame and riches promised couldn’t bring back the children she had lost to abortion.
“I have a Grammy, but none of it will bring my children back,” she recently said, as she opened up on her abortion regret – and about the exploitation of young women she believe is rife in the music industry.
“There’s nothing beautiful about it. No matter how much money you may have, no matter how much fame you may receive, no much how many records you may sell. The Pussycat Dolls ultimately sold 50 million singles worldwide, over 30 million albums worldwide and I have a Grammy, but none of it will bring my children back,” she said.
The 39-year-old singer said she had her first abortion at just 16 years old and that she felt something that been taken away from her.
“It harmed me and I felt like as though someone had took something that had always belonged in my body. I remember waking up and feeling like someone took my rib or my kidney and it was never going to come back…I don’t know the death date of my first child and I will never know the birth date. There’s no grave I can go to, to mourn the death,” she said.
Ms Jones also said that when she became pregnant while still in the Pussycat Dolls, she was “told to get rid of it” – and she has described in stark terms how she believes the music industry controls and abuses young women, including pressuring them into having an abortion.
“It feels like you’re a slave, literally, to your dream,” Jones said. “You have no access to personal thoughts, space, choices, decision. You are an owned commodity. What you eat has been decided for you, where you live is gonna be decided for you. Ultimately, you can’t have a child. The level of control is to the point of, ‘Who am I?’”
The singer experienced an epiphany during a Pussycat Dolls performance, during which she says she spotted two little girls in the crowd watching her with a huge adoration. “At that moment, I was going through an abortion,” she recalled. “I’m losing my child in real time.” She said that she thought at that moment. “I was living in my worst self.”
She has said that she shares her story in hope of alerting young women to the harm she feels abortion can cause – and that she sees children as a “blessing”, and hopes to become a mother. “If I could genuinely say, what I would hope for, is that women would hear my testimony and choose differently,” she said.
“I hope to one day be able to be a mom, I hope to be a wife and get to to be able to share what I do believe is the greatest gift, and ultimately the greatest job you’ll ever have on this planet as a woman, to be a mother,” the singer also said.
Ms Jones will speak at the Rally for Life, billed as the biggest pro-life event of the year, which gathers at 1.30pm in Parnell Square in Dublin on July 6th.
