Kelly Clarkson Tears Up While Recalling Pregnancy Challenges In Abortion Ban Chat

Kelly Clarkson appeared to be holding back tears as she reflected on her pregnancy challenges in a recent discussion about Arizonas near-total ban on abortion .

The emotional moment took place during Mondays episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, which featured former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a guest.

Though Clintons appearance was timed to promote Suffs, a new Broadway musical shes producing, her chat with Clarkson took a more serious turn when the pair addressed an Arizona Supreme Court ruling last week that permits a 150-year-old law criminalizing almost all abortions to take effect. 

It was then that Clarkson shared that shed been hospitalized during both of her pregnancies, and even thought about her possible death.

I have been pregnant twice, hospitalized both times, she explained . Literally I asked God this is a real thing to just take me and my son in the hospital the second time, because I was like, Its the worst thing.

Watch a clip from Mondays episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show via E! News below. 

After Clarkson noted that shes so glad she decided to have children, she denounced government officials who would restrict others ability to make that choice for themselves.

The fact that you would take that away from someone, that can literally kill them, she said. The fact if theyre raped by their family member and they have to its just insane to me.

Clinton, meanwhile, described the Arizona Supreme Courts decision as horrifying. 

The danger to womens lives as well as to our right to make our own decisions about our bodies and ourselves is so profound, she said. Theres a kind of cruelty to it. I mean, no exceptions for rape, incest I mean, really?

Clarkson shares a 9-year-old daughter, River Rose, and an 8-year-old son, Remington Alexander, with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock . 

Though shes generally steered clear of politics in her music and on her talk show, Clarkson has previously opened up about the challenges she experienced during her pregnancies.

Appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2013, she said that she was vomiting a good dozen times a day while pregnant with her daughter. Two years later, she said she became so dehydrated while expecting her son that she had to get IVs and fluids.