Posted on 10/07/2024 4:42:14 PM PDT by Morgana
Sally Field has shared heart-wrenching details about the illegal abortion she got in Mexico when she was just 17.
The 77-year-old actress — who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in September — recounted the 'horrific story' in an Instagram post on Sunday.
'I still feel very ashamed about it because I was raised in the 50s and it's ingrained in me,' the Mrs. Doubtfire star said on Instagram.
'I've been so hesitant to do this, to tell my horrific story. It was during a time even worse than now. A time when contraception was not readily available and only if you were married.
'But I feel that so many women of my generation went through similar, traumatic events, and I feel stronger when I think of them. I believe, like me, they must want to fight for their grandchildren and all the young women of this country.'
She explained that at the time she had 'no choices, family support or finances'.
'I graduated high school but no one ever said, 'How about college?' Nothing. I didn't know what I was gonna be.
'And then I found out I was pregnant.'
She said a family doctor and his wife, who were friends of the family, drove her and her mother in their brand-new Cadillac, to Tijuana, Mexico.
In harrowing detail, she went on to say, 'We parked on a really scroungy-looking street. It was scary and he parked about three blocks away and said, 'See that building down there?'
'And he gave me an envelope with cash and I was to walk into that building and give them the cash and then come right back to him.'
Sally described the abortion, which took place before the now-overturned Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling, as 'beyond hideous and life-altering.'
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She wasn’t embarrassed she was sexually active at age 17? What kind of girl was she? We weren’t sleeping around in the fifties and certainly the idea of having an illegal abortion is out of line for any nice girl back then. Doesn’t say much for her.
I’d forgotten all about that, until I read this.
That's not how a Leftist's mind works.
Yuh see, she graduated from high school 'And then I found out I was pregnant.'
That's their version of "cause and effect."
Actions have no consequences, in their minds.
Regards,
All the so called Doctor had to do was prescribe a “therapeutic” abortion due to the youth of the patient (her emotional and psychological danger)and yes he could have performed it himself. Legal in many states at the time. I call BS on her story.
Face it Sally, you are a murderer.
She’s living IMO.
Welcome to the side of life Sally. Pray that you stay here.
She “found out” she was pregnant?
I wonder how that happened. 🤔
Sally had a bad experience .
The baby she killed had a much experience.
Just think she could have amazing grandkids loving on her had she not killed their parent .
She offered no thoughts about her child that she aborted. No thoughts about a life created, a lifetime denied, a child & grandchildren, she’d never know.
Mi wife was pregnant at 17. This was in 1971. She gave up the baby for adoption. Five years ago her sister did the DNA heredity thing, and my wife sent him a long letter.
A month later his “new” siblings and us welcomed him into the family. It was life changing for every single one of us. In a very good way.
Sally did not “need” an abortion.
And she hadn't the slightest clue that anything she might have been doing around that time might cause her to become pregnant ...
I’m wagering the baby suffered worse
Just a hunch
But, but, but….she was Gidget! Gidget can’t be a ho!
“I believe that abortions were illegal in Mexico.”
Tijuana didn’t care. But then lawlessness and Mexico tend to travel together.
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