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.

[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.

[Lorianne]

One wonders why abortion was the "only solution" for the 18 year old Ms. Russell. It would be enlightening if she would elaborate on that. One wonders why no one cared enough for her to offer her other "solutions", for example the baby's father. Guess we'll never know.

[Woahhs]

Hildy, you are in denial, and you know it.

First, how many women HAD abortions has no logical connection to how many women WILL HAVE abortions, and you know it or you wouldn't be a Freeper.

Second, you're already setting yourself up so you can interpret the grief you're going to get as persecution, when the problem you're going to get is for making gratuitous assertions. Obviously you have a well developed mechanism for rationalizing your actions.

Next, you've already heard from those whose experience runs counter to yours...rather than trying to determine where the discrepancy comes from, you get belligerent. There's a sure sign of rational discourse!

Finally, if you have no regrets, give us the details that you think justify your decision. Tell us where these women that dispassionately support abortion, and recall their own with the same emotional detachment as recalling a car wreck are. I've sure never met one.

[wjcsux]

Every woman that I have met that has had an abortion has regrets.

[cake_crumb]

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

Regrets could be what makes such a high proportion of women who have them at a higher risk of suicide.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

bump

[cake_crumb]

"I have known many women who have had them, and many claiming to still be pro-choice."

The need for justification.

[shaggy eel]

I've been very honest on this thread

how many are you drawing from?

,,, you must have seen people asking "what's your source" on threads here on FR. I'm just trying to quantify the depth of your experience drawn from "others". Come on now, clothes off - I know you've been very honest on this thread but there's room for more of it. Simple question really, isn't it?

[cake_crumb]

"It mentions that she was never able to have any more children which I am certain is also painful at this time."

I'm sure the pain of regret only increased over the years, especially as she got older. She could never take back her decision, and because of it she was never able to change her mind and bear children of her own. I'm very sorry for her.

[GovernmentShrinker]

The clients of a counseling center are by definition not representative of the general population. They wouldn't be there if they weren't unhappy about something.