Pro-choice advocate

When it comes to the issue of abortion, Whoopi is an outspoken pro-choice advocate.

The star previously opened up about her own horrific experience as a teenager when she felt forced to terminate her own pregnancy with a coat hanger.

She wrote in the book 'The Choices We Made': "I talked to nobody. I panicked. I sat in hot baths.

"I drank these strange concoctions girls told me about — something like Johnny Walker Red with a little bit of Clorox, alcohol, baking soda (which probably saved my stomach) and some sort of cream. You mixed it all up.

"I got violently ill. At that moment I was more afraid of having to explain to anybody what was wrong than of going to the park with a hanger, which is what I did."