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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Fixed it.
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.
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.
Thank God for the milk!!!
Liberalism is a Mental Disease.
In this case, I'm not convinced that's a good thing.
I guess I should have added a /sarcasm tag.
"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."
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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.
Evil is as evil does.
I’m finding this story hard to believe. Anyone who had done such acts would also torture kittens and puppies.
IMHO she is a very sad individual who I’d want to keep a close eye on her young kids.
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)
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...
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.
What would growing up with someone like this as a mother have been like?
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