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Sinéad O’Connor, who chose life despite pressure to abort, has died [Little Known Story]
Live Action ^ | 07/26/2024 | Cassy Fiano-Chesser

Posted on 07/29/2023 9:37:25 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat

Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor has passed away, according to the Irish Times. She was 56 years old.

O’Connor released 10 studio albums throughout her career, though she is most well-known for her single “Nothing Compares 2 U.”

...O’Connor published a memoir, titled Rememberings, in 2021, in which she discussed being pressured to have an abortion by label executive Nigel Grainge; Grainge allegedly was so invested in ensuring that O’Connor aborted, he went to her doctor and told him to “impress upon” her a warning not to continue with the pregnancy.

“Your record company has spent £100,000 recording your album. You owe it to them not to have this baby,” she said the doctor told her...

(Excerpt) Read more at liveaction.org ...


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Look, I have my criticisms of SOC. But there was more to her than the headlines that engendered outrage.

Discovering that she chose life over the death of her baby is heartening. She knew it was wrong to kill a baby in her womb and stood up to the wicked men telling her otherwise.

And her words to Miley Cyrus were spot on.

I hope she made peace with our Creator before she passed.

1 posted on 07/29/2023 9:37:25 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Moz got it right....

Morrissey Slams Sinead O’Connor Tributes: ‘You Praise Her Now Only Because It Is Too Late’

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/morrissey-slams-sinead-oconnor-tributes-hypocritical-1234796113/


2 posted on 07/29/2023 9:40:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

She was skinhead and a raghead and trashed the pope

May want to mention that too


3 posted on 07/29/2023 9:43:39 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I hope so too. Tortured soul no doubt.


4 posted on 07/29/2023 9:43:56 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

In 2018 she converted to Islam, “the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey.” She published fotos of herself sporting a huijab and changed her name to Shuhada’ Sadaqat while continuing to use her old name professionally. She was pretty mixed up. I wonder if the baby she declined to abort was the son who later committed suicide at age 17?


5 posted on 07/29/2023 9:44:28 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Good job she did stopping abortion in Ireland

NOT


6 posted on 07/29/2023 9:44:30 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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“Furthermore, he informed me that if I flew while pregnant, my baby would be damaged.

That sounds pretty typical of the lies abortionists use to pressure women into "choosing" abortion. Unfortunately, too many women believe the lies since they come from a doctor whom they perceive as an educated authority figure.

Good for Sinead for standing up for herself and her baby. It takes a strong woman to reject the pressure to have an abortion.

Oh, and millions of pregnant women fly every year. The airlines don't want women past a certain stage flying because they don't want to risk having to deliver babies in flight.

7 posted on 07/29/2023 9:44:35 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: Blurb2350

She pretty much tried every religion at one time or the other.


8 posted on 07/29/2023 9:45:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

All those tramp stamps were really a nice touch. So classy 🤪


9 posted on 07/29/2023 9:46:52 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Blurb2350

Different child as best I can tell


10 posted on 07/29/2023 9:46:52 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I always thought she looked like a Holocaust victim

I guess it was to boost sales


11 posted on 07/29/2023 9:50:58 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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She sure didn’t look like that in her latter years, she bulked up considerably.


12 posted on 07/29/2023 9:52:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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She was skinhead and a raghead and trashed the pope

May want to mention that too

She "trashed the pope" in a righteous gesture of protest about the Roman Catholic Church's longstanding cover-up of child sexual abuse, of which your "pope" was a central participant.

May want to mention that too.

13 posted on 07/29/2023 9:52:29 AM PDT by DSH
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I thought she did kill her second pregnancy around the late ‘80s ?


14 posted on 07/29/2023 9:59:06 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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I read an article the other day that mentioned she did have an abortion somewhere along the way.


15 posted on 07/29/2023 10:02:21 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

I saw it on the Wikipedia bio.


16 posted on 07/29/2023 10:05:33 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: NWFree
All those tramp stamps were really a nice touch. So classy..

They look classy on your granddaughters too...:)

17 posted on 07/29/2023 10:08:01 AM PDT by rexthecat
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To: dfwgator

‘Sinead O’Connor’

who...?


18 posted on 07/29/2023 10:08:04 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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O’Connor had four children and was married and divorced four times. She had her first son, Jake, in 1987 with her first husband, music producer John Reynolds,[118] who co-produced several of her albums, including Universal Mother. Reynolds and O’Connor later married in Westminster register office in March 1989.[119][120] The same year, O’Connor had an abortion after things did not work out with the father. She later wrote the song “My Special Child” about the experience.[121] O’Connor and Reynolds announced their plan to divorce in November 1991 after being separated for some time.[122]


19 posted on 07/29/2023 10:15:23 AM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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‘She “trashed the pope” in a righteous gesture of protest about the Roman Catholic Church’s longstanding cover-up of child sexual abuse’

I guess it was simply an oversight on her part that she forgot to trash any Protestant clergy and teachers who were hanky-pankying with the kiddies as well...


20 posted on 07/29/2023 10:16:29 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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