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‘Abortion addict’ writes book, gets death threats
Irene Vilar has not won any friends by admitting she has has terminated 15 pregnancies in 16 years.
In fact, the 40-year-old “abortion addict” has received death threats from anti-abortion activists, according to the UK’s Daily Mail.
Vilar had her first abortion at age 16 and her last at age 33. She says the “addiction” began partly because she was trying to defy a controlling husband.
Here is an except from her new book, “Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict:”
“I had twelve abortions in eleven years and they were the happiest years of my life.” (Fifteen in fifteen years, when counting three others by another man.) I wrote those words years ago, before I came to understand the truth. I know I’m destined to be misunderstood, that many will see my nightmare as a story of abusing a right, of using abortion as a means of birth control. It isn’t that. My nightmare is part of the awful secret, and the real story is shrouded in shame, colonialism, self-mutilation, and a family history that features a heroic grandmother, a suicidal mother, and two heroin-addicted brothers. I know this account can’t resolve the moral dilemma of my actions. Yet, I wanted to understand the spell a pregnant body exercised over me, my flawed desire to become someone, or something, else. The diaries I kept guided me. My promise to the reader is to deliver an account of my addiction, a steady flow of unhappiness, the x-ray of a delusion, and ultimately, the redeeming face of motherhood.
Read more about her book, “Impossible Motherhood,” here.
What do you think?
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By shannon
October 16, 2009 2:03 PM | Link to this
what a jerk. i’m not one who thinks it should be banned totally, because there are situations where it may be necessary. but she is just heartless. if she wanted to defy her husband, she could have thrown his clothes on the lawn, broker his favorite coffee mug…etc. but aborting 12 pregnancies? this makes me want to kick her in her face.
By anotherskank
October 16, 2009 2:38 PM | Link to this
Another whiny stupid skank deluding herself with self-concocted dramas of being a victim when in reality she is a deeply disturbed victimizer now seeking to profit her psychosis.
By richardo
October 16, 2009 3:20 PM | Link to this
Everyone who thinks their mother should have had an abortion, raise your right hand….
By richardo
October 16, 2009 3:23 PM | Link to this
Your mother didn’t have an abortion - so you could have an opinion…