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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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To: NWFree

Yes, they should have.


21 posted on 07/29/2023 10:29:40 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: dfwgator

He did, all right.


22 posted on 07/29/2023 10:31:18 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: NWFree
I always thought she looked like a Holocaust victim.

I guess it was to boost sales

I assumed the "bald look" was to protest patriarchal beauty standards imposed on women.

23 posted on 07/29/2023 10:38:01 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: IrishBrigade
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...

"Demand for Perfection" Fallacy!

If that's the way you feel: How about you first go and solve World Peace before you sit in judgement over everyone else?

I respected and admired Pope John Paul II, and O'Connor's public display was overdramatic, grandiose, and otherwise completely "over the top," but she may have been motivated by sincere beliefs.

Regards,

24 posted on 07/29/2023 10:40:37 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Death of yet another trashy celebrity — {~~yawn~~}


25 posted on 07/29/2023 10:48:07 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

If this story is true then she deserves high praise.


26 posted on 07/29/2023 11:02:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: NWFree

The European Union destroyed Ireland. No one person could have done that.


27 posted on 07/29/2023 11:03:52 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

She did some good things, and some bad things, like everybody else.

But what I can’t stand is all these people now pretending she was some kind of saint or something, now that she’s dead.


28 posted on 07/29/2023 11:04:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

They finished the job England started during Black 47.


29 posted on 07/29/2023 11:04:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

She was a troubled soul. She had a bit of the dark, brooding, melancholic and apocalyptic Irish outlook in her

I have some family connections to Ireland, and its my humble opinion her decision not to abort was very likely due to the seeds of her Irish-Catholic culture planted in her in her youth, coming to fruition. For someone born in the 1960s, that culture was very strong.

that’s not the case now


30 posted on 07/29/2023 11:31:30 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88
She occasionally grew her hair out...and back in the day, before she tatted herself up, she was actually quite pretty.


31 posted on 07/29/2023 11:33:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DSH

Amen!! 🙏😉


32 posted on 07/29/2023 11:40:17 AM PDT by redheadedshannon
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To: DSH

But I do think John Paul II was an amazingly honorable man, however! 🥰


33 posted on 07/29/2023 11:42:33 AM PDT by redheadedshannon
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Sinead was very bright and sadly troubled. “If you have an innocent heart you can’t recognise those who do not.” 100% True. “Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves” (Mt 10: 16). Hollywood is full of wolves.


34 posted on 07/29/2023 11:43:45 AM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Some day we might even find out how she died. It should not even be legal to hide the basic cause of death.


35 posted on 07/29/2023 11:47:16 AM PDT by Revel
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To: NWFree

I read elsewhere a few days ago, that she tore up a picture of the pope that was her moms. her mom idolized the pope and was not good to Sinead. To her it was about the lies of and treatment by her mother.

I am not sure the truth and neither is anyone else, about why she tore up the pope picture. Sinead and God know, and He is her judge, not you, me or anyone else.


36 posted on 07/29/2023 3:36:27 PM PDT by b4me
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