She didn't say the Catholic Church advised her to have an abortion. She said an adoption agency told her they couldn't take her baby because it was half black.
I understand that. I reject the idea that Catholicism or strict anti-abortion beliefs had any effect on her, because she decided not to chose a Catholic agency and went ahead with the abortion after one bad experience. This doesn't sound like desperation to me. Sounds more like a convenient excuse.
That's ridiculous. According to the details she provided the earliest she sought the abortion was 1973. It was already illegal then for adoption agencies to practice racially discriminatory policies or refuse children based on race.
What a liar this vile woman is.