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Hollywood Legend Jane Russell Slams Abortion In Interview
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| Wednesday May 28, 2003
Posted on 05/29/2003 1:20:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
LONDON, May 28, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The UK Life League, a British pro-life group has reported that Jane Russell, the 1940s and '50s Hollywood movie star and pin-up girl, now aged 82, gave an interview this week slamming abortion. "People should never, ever have an abortion. Don't talk to me about it being a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. The choice is between life and death," said Russell.
Describing her shock at finding herself pregnant at 18: "The only solution was to find a quack and get an abortion. I had a botched abortion and it was terrible. Afterwards my own doctor said: 'What butcher did this to you?' I had to be taken to hospital. I was so ill I nearly died. I've never known pain like it." Russell says that due to the abortion she was not able to have any other children.
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: abortion; prolife
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To: nickcarraway
It's interesting that most women that have abortions have severe regrets later in life.......
NeverGore
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:23:14 PM PDT
by
nevergore
(If stupidity hurt, Frenchmen would be writhing in pain....)
To: nickcarraway
All your hubba hubba are belong to us.
Photo by George Hurrell -- the man was a genius.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:24:49 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: Canticle_of_Deborah; Desdemona; Salvation; NYer; JMJ333; Maeve; Siobhan
ping
To: cpforlife.org; Mr. Silverback
ping
To: nickcarraway
Sorry she waited until age 82 to speak out!
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:33:46 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Name an honest democrat? I can't either!)
To: nevergore
How do you know "most women have regrets." In my experience, most women don't.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:33:46 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: nickcarraway
Too bad many of today's so-called "enlightened women" will not listen to voice of experience! Their right to abortion supercedes the right of the child to live. And to think that our supreme court justices made this killing legal.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:33:46 PM PDT
by
maeng
To: nevergore
How do you know "most women have regrets." In my experience, most women don't.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:33:47 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: nickcarraway
A sad note. It's true. Most or perhaps all women who have abortions feel sad or guilty about it, although they may continue to deny their feelings or misunderstand the reasons for them.
If having an abortion was enough to make you politically pro-abort, by this time American voters would be overwhelmingly pro-abort, having aborted some 40 million babies. But in fact many of these people either shrink from remembering what happened to them or eventually become pro-life, as happened with both Roe (Norma McCorvey) and Doe of the two critical Supreme Court cases.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:34:10 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: nickcarraway
Too bad many of today's so-called "enlightened women" will not listen to voice of experience! Their right to abortion supercedes the right of the child to live. And to think that our supreme court justices made this killing legal.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:38:03 PM PDT
by
maeng
To: nickcarraway
It's odd that a doctor is required to stop if he happens on an injured person. Many DRAFTED soldiers gave their lives for our freedom in wars past. Certainly, many had to do things they didn't want to do "with their bodies." Abortion is a selfish and violent act against the innocent.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:40:15 PM PDT
by
RAT Patrol
(Congress can give one American a dollar only by first taking it away from another American. -W.W.)
To: martin_fierro
u don't have to be a genius when u have a subject like the lovely miss russell. A blind man could take a great photo of her. imho
To: Hildy
Perhaps in your experience. Or they say they don't regret it to defend what they did.
After working in a Pregnancy Counseling Center with women who had one or more abortions I can tell you that most of them did have regrets. Those that had had multiple ones weren't so upset because they were pretty hardened to the experience. As one girl said, "If abortion is so great then why can't I talk about it after it happened." She couldn't because it was such an awful thing and she was ashamed.
That is why many clinics offer Post Abortion Counciling to the woman, any family or friends (including men) who supported the abortion and now regret it or who didn't support it and now grieve over their loss.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:42:36 PM PDT
by
TXBubba
(Someday I'll change my name to TXBubbette)
To: TXBubba
I think you're wrong. And I know from experience.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:44:36 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: Victoria Delsoul; MHGinTN; Coleus; Remedy; madprof98; RomanCatholicProlifer; votelife; ...
ping
To: nickcarraway; All
Who are the unborn? 
I AM:
A CHILD OF GOD
THE HEART OF A MARRIAGE
THE FOUNDATION OF A FAMILY
THE FUTURE OF OUR REPUBLIC
A CITIZEN--WAITING AND WANTING TO BE BORN
A PERSON
DESTROY ME--AND YOU DESTROY THE FUTURE
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:45:07 PM PDT
by
cpforlife.org
(“My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.” Hosea 4:6)
To: Hildy
You are welcome to your thoughts.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:45:20 PM PDT
by
TXBubba
(Someday I'll change my name to TXBubbette)
To: nickcarraway
It sounds to me like she's just opposed to abortion because her's had serious complications for her own health.
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:46:12 PM PDT
by
dead
To: TXBubba
Thank you! :)
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posted on
05/29/2003 1:46:37 PM PDT
by
Hildy
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