nick
October 14th, 2009, 01:31 PM
A self-confessed "abortion addict" has told how she had 15 terminations in 16 years.
Irene Vilar, 40, who is now married with two young daughters, had the abortions between the ages of 16 and her early thirties.
She describes her decisions in a book called Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict and is now anticipating a fierce backlash from the anti-abortion community.
She said her first husband, an older man, had believed children killed sexual desire and she had rebelled by not using birth control. Then she would fear losing her husband and opt for a termination.
In the brutally frank memoir she writes: "My story is a perversion of both maternal desire and abortion, framed by a lawful procedure that I abused.
"By the time I lay in an abortion clinic waiting for the procedure to begin, I would feel nothing but disgust and shame. When I left the clinic, I felt a calm respite, surrender. I always said to myself then 'This has to end.'
"A moment came when not being pregnant was enough motivation for wanting to be pregnant. Getting pregnant began to be simply a habit.
"If I wasn't pregnant, something was wrong, more wrong than what was already wrong. I believe this habit formed with abortion number 9 and pregnancy number 10."
Source story here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6319778/Abortion-addict-has-15-terminations-in-16-years.html)
Irene Vilar, 40, who is now married with two young daughters, had the abortions between the ages of 16 and her early thirties.
She describes her decisions in a book called Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict and is now anticipating a fierce backlash from the anti-abortion community.
She said her first husband, an older man, had believed children killed sexual desire and she had rebelled by not using birth control. Then she would fear losing her husband and opt for a termination.
In the brutally frank memoir she writes: "My story is a perversion of both maternal desire and abortion, framed by a lawful procedure that I abused.
"By the time I lay in an abortion clinic waiting for the procedure to begin, I would feel nothing but disgust and shame. When I left the clinic, I felt a calm respite, surrender. I always said to myself then 'This has to end.'
"A moment came when not being pregnant was enough motivation for wanting to be pregnant. Getting pregnant began to be simply a habit.
"If I wasn't pregnant, something was wrong, more wrong than what was already wrong. I believe this habit formed with abortion number 9 and pregnancy number 10."
Source story here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6319778/Abortion-addict-has-15-terminations-in-16-years.html)