Academy Award winning actress Ellen Burstyn Says Abortion was the Worst Thing in Her Life

LifeSiteNews ^ | 9/20/07 | John-Henry Westen

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TORONTO, September 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Academy Award winning actress Ellen Burstyn known for her roles in  'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' and 'The Exorcist' was interviewed by CFRB radio in Toronto while she was in town promoting her new book - Lessons in Becoming Myself. 

CFRB spoke at length about the long and eventful career of the highly acclaimed 74-year-old actress after which the interviewer asked Burstyn "what was the lowest moment" of her life.

After a pause during which the interviewer prompted with her single motherhood, struggles with her son and more, Burstyn said, "You know, I guess, I hate to talk about this on the air, but having an abortion."

Burstyn continued, "You know that was really an extremely painful experience."

"Did you feel you didn't have a choice?," asked the interviewer.  "At the time I was just young and dumb, I didn't really want to have a baby then," she replied.

"It was the wrong thing to do and I really didn't understand that till later," said the actress.

"That was very very painful, that was probably the worst."

Concluding the matter she said, "I try not to allow regret to settle over me like a shroud, because I think its an unhealthy way to live."

To listen to the CFRB interview click here:
http://www.cfrb.com/player/ondemand/files/srimedia/ellen%202...

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It was the wrong thing to do and I really didn't understand that till later," said the actress.

This is the eventual experience of EVERY woman who has an abortion IF she has a conscience.

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[Spok]

I hope she’s retired because she just made the Hollywood blacklist.

[Neoliberalnot]

But the upside, a killer of the unborn made money.

[trisham]

Good for her! She’s a brave woman to admit it in public.

[Izzy Dunne]

You know that was really an extremely painful experience."

Your child would probably agree with you.

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[victim soul]

Abortion hurts women and always kills children.

[victim soul]

Abortion hurts women and always kills children.

[victim soul]

Abortion hurts women and always kills children.

[DoughtyOne]

I’ll bet it took a lot of soul searching for her to come to this realization, and then feel like explaining it in public. And whether we like it or not, people like this who have done something we do not approve of, will be the ones to advance the cause of the unborn the most. This was a personal testimonial. She didn’t “go there” just to be talking.

I’d like to say this is a very good sign. When a woman in the Hollywood scene can open up with these types of feelings, it makes it possible for others to come forward.

The tide is turning and this is a significant road-marker along the way to this issue being resolved, or at the very least greatly improved upon, at long last.

[dforest]

I believe that she is thinking about the beautiful person she allowed to be killed.

Sad thing, as lovely as she is, she allowed a treasure to be killed for no good reason.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Planned Parenthood just crapped a brick.

[Doc Savage]

My POS AH relatives in Mass., decry the execution of genetic mutants who rape and kill innocent Americans, but they stand arm and arm in defending the taking of over 50 million lives in the womb since Roe vs. Wade. It’s murder, I’m a biologist, and it IS MURDER!!!!!!!

[colorcountry]

What a brave woman for speaking out. I hope she found forgiveness.

[DesScorp]

“”It was the wrong thing to do and I really didn’t understand that till later,” said the actress.”

Stand by to be called a mysogynist traitor to womynkind, Ellen...

[daisyscarlett]

The tide is turning and this is a significant road-marker along the way to this issue being resolved, or at the very least greatly improved upon, at long last.

I have a friend who used to be adamantly pro-choice-until the girlfriend of one of her sons had an abortion because "the time for a baby was not right". When her son told her of the abortion, my friend freaked out and her son's reply was "gee Mom, I have heard you say many times that a woman has a right to choose because it's her body". My friend is now pro-life. And she still mourns the loss of her first grandchild.

[angcat]

My favoriate movie is Same time next year.