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Abortion Addict Confesses 15 Procedures in 16 Years
ABC News ^ | Sept. 21, 2009 | SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES

Posted on 09/21/2009 7:19:38 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Irene Vilar worries that her self-described "abortion addiction" will be misunderstood, twisted by the pro-life movement to deny women the right to choose.

Her book, "Impossible Motherhood," which will be released by Other Press on Oct. 6, chronicles her own dark choices: 15 abortions in 16 years, much of it as a married woman.

As press on the book has begun to leak out, Vilar -- a literary agent and editor --- says she has already sensed "an inkling of hatred."

Vilar has scheduled only closed-door interviews and will not do a book tour. At the urging of her husband, they have made sure all public property records do not reflect her name, so she cannot be targeted at their home.

"I am worried about my safety and the hate mail," she told ABCNews.com in a telephone interview as her home-schooled children were at work on a painting project.

"No book like this has ever been written," she told ABCNews.com. "I just imagine the 'baby killer' and I could be a poster child for that kind of fundamentalism. And there are my little kids in all of that."

Today, at 40, the Latina author has two young children, but her troubled past continues to haunt her well into motherhood.

She grew up in the shadow of her notorious grandmother Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebron, who stormed the Capitol steps with a gun in 1954. Lebron served 25 years in jail for the crime until receiving a pardon from President Carter in 1979.

Her mother committed suicide by throwing herself from a moving car when Vilar was 8 and two of her brothers were heroin addicts.

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KEYWORDS: abortion; moralabsolutes; moralevil; postabortivewomen; prolife
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"This book really isn't about using abortion as birth control," she told ABCNews.com. "She is unconsciously sabotaging contraception for self-mutilation. It's a way of escaping feeling empty."

But Vilar blames much of her poor choices on a hypersexualized society that at once values the perfect mother, but also expects women to be sexually attractive to men and to achieve professionally.

Sounds like a sick, sick woman -- at least she seems to understand that she has a problem (while at the same time blaming society for it, she is trying to make herself out to be a victim). Pray for her.
21 posted on 09/21/2009 7:31:48 PM PDT by rom (Israel got Saul before they got David. Where's our David?)
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To: liberlog

I’m certainly not excusing what she’s done, But to continually opt for abortion as a birth control method when so many other forms are available (and I agree with Pope Paul VI on that topic) implies some weird kind of compulsion. It reminds me of the story of the Asian woman who disfigured herself by multiple plastic surgeries and botox injections. After the doctors finally quit treating her, she started injecting herself with vegetable oil. Sick, Sick, Sick.


22 posted on 09/21/2009 7:32:52 PM PDT by McGarrett (Book'em Danno)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She worries about being called a baby killer, well she is. They are not puppies.
I do not believe her story, I believe she is a fraud.


23 posted on 09/21/2009 7:33:11 PM PDT by svcw (Legalism reinforces self-righteousness - it communicates to you the good news of your own goodness)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I pray she asks Jesus for forgiveness.


24 posted on 09/21/2009 7:33:29 PM PDT by Freddd (Government run health care=paying more and being denied what we already have.)
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To: GOPsterinMA
Didn’t Whoopi Goldberg brag about having ‘x’ number of abortions

Someone actually had relations with that freak ?

25 posted on 09/21/2009 7:34:12 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom ;))
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To: Yossarian; al baby

Something like this is sad beyond jokes.

Did she have some kind of neurotic compulsion which drove her to repeatedly initiate pregnancies then get the unborn baby killed? I’d think that once the neurosis problem was resolved, the horror alone would push most women in this position into a diamond hard pro-life stance.


26 posted on 09/21/2009 7:34:28 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Love me, love my cat.)
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To: Freddd

I hope that too. This string of killings is ghastly almost beyond human imagination — but it is not the unforgivable sin.


27 posted on 09/21/2009 7:35:35 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Love me, love my cat.)
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To: al baby
Either that or a turkey baster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USBuPoVE0uU

28 posted on 09/21/2009 7:37:52 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Who paid for Mary Jo Kopechne's funeral)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Let me boil this down:

She’s a f0ching, murdering slut.


29 posted on 09/21/2009 7:38:34 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, nothing more than bald haired hippies.)
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To: rom
Yeah, she's a twisted sickie all right--but so are all pro-aborts. And before we forget, nearly half of all abortions in this country are repeat abortions. Millions of aborted twisted women, and we wonder why Obama got elected.
30 posted on 09/21/2009 7:39:19 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (truth--the liberal's kryptonite.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This article is really twisted, in an evil sort of way.


31 posted on 09/21/2009 7:42:29 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: Loud Mime

You have to read this.


32 posted on 09/21/2009 7:44:08 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (So how about, in honor of the American soldier, ya quit making things up? - Gov. Palin)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Its 2006 report found that most of these women were over age 30 and using contraception at the time of conception.

i think this is bullcrap... i doubt most were using contraception...

33 posted on 09/21/2009 7:45:24 PM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Although I am normally anti-death penalty, but for her - regarding the power switch at the pen - Turn it on , turn it on, TURN IT ON...


34 posted on 09/21/2009 7:46:08 PM PDT by babygene
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This will be proven as an outright hoax!

Hide and watch...


35 posted on 09/21/2009 7:47:00 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I feel sorry for her and also the little ones under her care.

I hope she doesn't discount their value as human beings like she did her pre born children!

36 posted on 09/21/2009 7:50:33 PM PDT by mckenzie7 (I am a European American! Silly me. I never realized that before! Thanks, oh great unifier!)
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To: Scotswife
I think the best thing pro-lifers could do is completely ignore her.

And pray for her and all of us!

37 posted on 09/21/2009 7:53:03 PM PDT by mckenzie7 (I am a European American! Silly me. I never realized that before! Thanks, oh great unifier!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Vilar's pregnancies became compulsively self-destructive: After her 9th and 10th abortions, she "needed another self-injury to get the high."

Oh it's a SELF-injury, is it? She's a sociopath.

Vilar attended boarding school in New Hampshire and was just 15 when she left for Syracuse University, where she fell in love and later married her first husband, a tyrannical 50-year-old professor.

With a predilection for young women, he bragged that his relationships had never lasted more than five years and that having children killed sexual desire.

She says their emotionally dependent relationship was riddled with shame, self-mutilation and several suicide attempts.

That first husband was apparently Pedro Cuperman, still a Spanish professor at Syracuse.

She finds stability and love with a new husband, a writer and poet, and she builds a new family, reveling in the motherhood she once thought was impossible.

Impossible? Just because she kept murdering her children? Anyway her current husband is apparently Peter Grandbois; they appear to live in Boulder, Colorado (though he's also on the faculty at Cal State Fresno)...good place for them.

38 posted on 09/21/2009 7:53:07 PM PDT by xjcsa (And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
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To: mckenzie7

Stem Cell donator!


39 posted on 09/21/2009 7:53:15 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: Scotswife
She claims fear - and pretends to seek seclusion while leaking just enough info for everyone to figure out exactly who she is.

Exactly; see my post 38.

40 posted on 09/21/2009 7:56:28 PM PDT by xjcsa (And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
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