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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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.
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.
I pray she asks Jesus for forgiveness.
Someone actually had relations with that freak ?
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.
I hope that too. This string of killings is ghastly almost beyond human imagination — but it is not the unforgivable sin.
Let me boil this down:
She’s a f0ching, murdering slut.
This article is really twisted, in an evil sort of way.
You have to read this.
i think this is bullcrap... i doubt most were using contraception...
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...
This will be proven as an outright hoax!
Hide and watch...
I hope she doesn't discount their value as human beings like she did her pre born children!
And pray for her and all of us!
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.
Stem Cell donator!
Exactly; see my post 38.
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