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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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KEYWORDS: abortion; moralabsolutes; moralevil; postabortivewomen; prolife
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Today, at 40, the Latina author has two young children survivors.

Fixed it.

81 posted on 09/22/2009 2:59:51 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: GOPsterinMA

82 posted on 09/22/2009 3:04:36 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Free ThinkerNY

You are either mentally ill or evil to even think that what you’ve done is acceptable.

You’ve sent 15 babies to their deaths, Irene Vilar. I pity your soul when you stand before God Almighty on Judgement Day.


83 posted on 09/22/2009 3:06:15 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Welcome to the Revolution.)
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To: tanknetter
I'd even venture that, after that KS abortion doc was killed several months back, she's TRYING to draw out some nutcase who will take a shot at her. Think of a "suicide by cop" scenario that can be blamed on the pro-life movement. The very best thing that pro-lifers can do here is express sorrow over what is clearly a mental illness, offer to pray for her, but otherwise ignore her, her story and stay far, far away.

You are spot on. and your approach is wise. This woman is clearly filled with self-loathing. Unfortunately, she is so lost that anyone who tells her they are praying for her would just enrage her more.

84 posted on 09/22/2009 3:06:24 PM PDT by montag813 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell)
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To: Neidermeyer
Well, I'll be skipping dessert tonite.

Thank God for the milk!!!

85 posted on 09/22/2009 3:06:45 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Who paid for Mary Jo Kopechne's funeral)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Liberalism is a Mental Disease.


86 posted on 09/22/2009 3:07:34 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: VRWCmember
At least they're homeschooled.

In this case, I'm not convinced that's a good thing.

87 posted on 09/22/2009 3:07:44 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

I guess I should have added a /sarcasm tag.


88 posted on 09/22/2009 3:08:28 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Free ThinkerNY
From the article:


"Everybody is having babies, Hollywood has even developed some sort of motherhood fetish," said Vilar. "Yet, women are repeatedly told that they must be everything but mothers, everything but someone weighed down by motherhood."

[snip]

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.

89 posted on 09/22/2009 3:46:48 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("A cultural problem cannot be solved with a political solution." -- Selwyn Duke)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Evil is as evil does.


90 posted on 09/22/2009 4:00:36 PM PDT by Poe White Trash (Wake up!)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

I’m finding this story hard to believe. Anyone who had done such acts would also torture kittens and puppies.


91 posted on 09/23/2009 4:57:37 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberals/Democrats are the biggest crybabies in US history)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Pinged from Terri Dailies


92 posted on 09/24/2009 3:51:09 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

IMHO she is a very sad individual who I’d want to keep a close eye on her young kids.


93 posted on 09/24/2009 3:53:14 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: latina4dubya

Fifty-four percent of women having abortions used a contraceptive method during the month they became pregnant. (Guttmacher Institute, 05/2006)


Forty eight percent of women that are having an abortion have had at least one previous abortion. (Guttmacher Institute, 05/2006)


94 posted on 09/26/2009 9:28:51 PM PDT by victim soul
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To: victim soul
Fifty-four percent of women having abortions used a contraceptive method during the month they became pregnant.

so what? this does not mean that they practiced safe sex every single time... they could have had sex 10 times in one month and used a contraceptive once during that month for that statistic to be true... and i don't even believe the statistic... i think some women lie...

95 posted on 09/26/2009 10:44:35 PM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: kalee

If I knew absolutely nothing else about this filthy murdering slut other than that she “dated Ted Danson”, that alone would be enough to prove that she is out of her mind.


96 posted on 10/01/2009 2:48:45 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Tragic that she will have that many faces to confront some day.

What would growing up with someone like this as a mother have been like?

97 posted on 10/01/2009 2:52:39 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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