Hollywood Legend Jane Russell Slams Abortion In Interview

LifeSite ^ | Wednesday May 28, 2003

[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.

[nevergore]

It's interesting that most women that have abortions have severe regrets later in life.......

NeverGore

[martin_fierro]

All your hubba hubba are belong to us.

Photo by George Hurrell -- the man was a genius.

[nickcarraway]

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[nickcarraway]

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[onyx]

Sorry she waited until age 82 to speak out!

[Hildy]

How do you know "most women have regrets." In my experience, most women don't.

[maeng]

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.

[Hildy]

How do you know "most women have regrets." In my experience, most women don't.

[Cicero]

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.

[maeng]

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.

[RAT Patrol]

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.

[cajun-jack]

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

[TXBubba]

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.

[Hildy]

I think you're wrong. And I know from experience.

[nickcarraway]

ping

[cpforlife.org]

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

[TXBubba]

You are welcome to your thoughts.

[dead]

It sounds to me like she's just opposed to abortion because her's had serious complications for her own health.

[Hildy]

Thank you! :)

[Lanza]

Hildy,

I have to agree with texbubba. I have known many women who have had them, and many claiming to still be pro-choice. They still have severe regrets about what they did. I don't know anyone who isn't ashamed about it, no matter how pro-choice they pretend to be.

[shiva]

How do you know "most women have regrets." In my experience, most women don't.

Actually, it depends on how old the person is whom you ask. As they get older they regret having gotten pregnant and having had an abortion(s). Every year they think of how old that child would be now and how having a son or daughter could not have been such a bad idea. Like I said depends on the age. Most regret it when they are older. The young ones don't know any better and abortion to many is a way of birth control.

[Woahhs]

I think you're wrong. And I know from experience.

And what experience is that?

[Tamar1973]

My late grandmother supported abortion rights for exactly the reasons that Jane Russell talks about: womem having access to safe abortions.

Her logic was by making abortion legal, good doctors would get into the practice and fewer women would die from abortion related complications. I think that her own sister-in-law died trying to cause a miscarriage because she couldn't get an abortion played into her reasoning alot.

Even as a teen, I never agreed with this logic but that argument was common in the 60's and early 70's among abortion rights activists.

[Redbob]

"Photo by George Hurrell -- the man was a genius."

Maybe.
He certainly had wonderful material to work with...

[stands2reason]

I only know from my own experience, and I disagree.

[mware]

Jane is a pistol. I sat at the same table with her and General Singbaul during the last CPAC conference.

She was not very pleased with George Clooney comments about Heston.

[bereanway]

I was thinking that also, but the statement "the choice is between life and death" attributed to her sounds more like a moral pronouncement on abortion. Obviously, she is also upset about the physical damage done to her. It mentions that she was never able to have any more children which I am certain is also painful at this time.

[mware]

She has been attending CPAC conferences for years. She has been a conservative for quite some time.

[Hildy]

Who's been attending CPAC Conventions?

[Hildy]

I'm not ashamed. If I had been, I wouldn't have had it. That was almost 25 years ago.

[mware]

Jane Russell

[shaggy eel]

How do you know "most women have regrets." In my experience, most women don't.

,,, drawing from your experience, how many women are you talking about?

[Hildy]

How many are you drawing from?

[onedoug]

...And what might have been....

[Hildy]

Oh, ok...tell me about it.

[votelife]

My recent letter to W:

Dear President Bush,
With the Surpeme Court session getting ready to close, it may well be time for perhaps the most important domestic decision of your presidency: the appointment of a Supreme Court Justice(s). The main reason why I supported you in 2000 and why I wanted Daschle out of power in 02 (and 04) has to do with the courts. I want America courts to interpret law, not write law. During your presidential campaign you said Thomas and Scalia were your two model justices. Those are excellent models. The High Court needs more like them. Clarence Thomas recently said to students that the tough cases were when what he wanted to do was different from what the law said. And he goes by the law. This should be a model philosophy for our justices. Your father, President Bush lost his reelection campaign for 3 main reasosn, as far as I can see. 1. he broke the no new taxes pledge 2. David Souter 3. Clinton convinced people we were in a Bush recession (which we had already come out of by the time Clinton was getting sworn in)

I urge you to learn from all three of these: 1. on taxes, you're doing great. Awesome job on the tax cut. 2. good job so far on judicial appointments. I want to see more of a fight for Estrada, Owen, and Pickering, but I commend you on your nominations. 3. by staying engaged in the economic debate you'll serve yourself well

I have been thoroughly impressed with your handling of al Queida, Iraq, and terrorism. You have inspired confidence and have shown great leadership.

But I want to remind you that your Supreme Court pick(s) will be with us LONG after you have departed office. I urge you to avoid the tempation to find a "compromise" pick. Go for a Scalia or Thomas. Don't go for an O'Connor or Kennedy. To be specific, get someone who is pro-life. Roe v Wade is one of the worst court decisions I know of, and it's the perfect example of unrestrained judicial power.

I know the temptation will be tremendous on you to nominate a moderate. But remember who your true supporters are. I am not a important leader or politician. I am "simply" a citizen who has been an enthusiatic supporter of you. I am willing to accept compromise in many areas of government but I will watch your Court nomiantions extremely closely. What the Senate Dems are doing right now is disgusting, but as the President you have the bully pulpit to stop it. Democrats will back down if you turn up serious heat on them.

Moreover, I think public opinion is shifting towards the pro-life position. Dems will want you to nominate a moderate, but almost all will vote against you anyways. Pro-choice Repubs will likely still vote for you if you nominate a Scalia, after all, you campaigned on it. So Mr. President, I urge you to stick with your campaign statements and nominate justices who believe in judicial restraint, like Scalia and Thomas.

Happy Memorial Day and may God bless you and your family.

[Woahhs]

How many are you drawing from?

Little defensive there Hildy? Maybe a little defiant?

You're sounding a tad belligerent.

[Delbert]

You have absolutely no regrets? Hard to believe unless of course you dont think that you may get a chance to meet the soul of that child in heaven.
Abortion is wrong. It is also very sad.

[Delbert]

Ok...enough of that.....we need more Jane Russell pics please.

[Dataman]

Two lovely ladies.

[Hildy]

No I'm not. I've been very honest on this thread and I know I'm going to pay for it with lectures and reprimands and probably more. My point was that if the "majority" of women regretted it so much, abortion would be rarer than it is.

[Delbert]

Unfortunately it is a form of birth control for a lot of women these days.

[Coleus]

It's too bad someone had to die and others prevented from being born for her to learn the truth. I'm glad she now sees the light.

[TXBubba]

The rates of abortion are going down and have been for years now.

Although I didn't take your bait earlier it seems you are trying to pick a fight with people here who say women suffer from this. Even if you didn't that is a real strange thing to try to pick a fight about...whether other women suffer from it. I guess I could go on and say that it worries me that you don't have regrets. Yes, that thought does worry me.

[Abe Froman]

The girl I am currently dating (VERY casually) says that she was devastated by her abortion. For a year she couldn't walk into a mall and see the kids running around or she would break down. When she (some people never learn, although maybe she has now) got pregnant again, her boyfriend pressured her to have another abortion, but she refused----she said that she could never go through that again no matter what.

[Conservababe]

Regret comes from a deed done. Those who have not had an abortion cannot regret it, no?

Your argument is convoluted.

[hocndoc]

In my experience and in my practice, most women do regret their abortions.

[onedoug]

I think only God can. I believe #17.

'Praying for you.