Fact: Even Pro-choicers don't always support "choice."

Irene Vilar has written a memoir about her 15 abortions, and how she was an "addict," because it was her way to rebel against her husband. She would deliberately get pregnant just to abort, because her husband, 34 years her senior, didn't want children. [I still don't understand that logic.]

I honestly find it hard to believe she had 15 abortions and still gave birth to two healthy children. I think she might just be lying.

Even so, the pro-choicers are up in arms. Reading some of the comments on the article on her book, you can see that they hate a woman like this coming forward and telling such a tale with a smile on her face.



Looking at some of the comments, from "pro-choicers" I have to wonder.

15 abortions...I agree with the right to choose, but this is insane. I agree with Moggie Mumm, that it is all about money. DON'T LET HER MAKE A PROFIT OFF THIS, DON'T BUY THE BOOK!!!!!! WE REALLY DON'T NEED HER MEMOIR ON MOTHERHOOD!!!!!!
- runaboutmare, Columbus, OH USA, 14/10/2009 8:20

"Total disgust with this story. I believe in a womans right to choose but 15 times is apalling when there are women out there that cannot get pregnant that could take the eventual children from those pregnancies and give them a wonderful life. She had a choice to take birth contol pills and not get pregnant we are lucky in the western world to have those choices and not be persecuted for them. Women the world over are dying for that right and she abuses it! There is no justification for 15 terminations what so ever You should not take abortion lightly and for it to be used as a form of birth control is apalling.

- Mrs Lilley, Manchester, 14/10/2009 7:13"

I am and always have been pro-choice but this woman has abused an option for women that so many fought long and hard for. It is not and was never intended to be a form of contraception.

I am appalled that the medial profession allowed her to have so many abortions. Weren't they alarmed that she was having way too many and that maybe she needed some psychological help?

And I do not see the point in her publicising her story as it isn't something to be proud of. Quite the opposite.
- cymraeges, ozzieland, 13/10/2009 22:11

I wonder why one abortion is okay, why three abortions are okay, why five abortions are okay, but 15 is considered ridiculous and repulsive. Don't get me wrong, it is repulsive. But why must it be an outrageous number before someone draws a line? If it is just a blob of tissue, if it is not a life in the eyes of the pro-choicers, why should it matter how many times a piece of skin gets removed?

I think what really gets the pro-abortion movement in trouble with this woman's testimony is a lot of abortion rights supporters are asking, "If she couldn't be accountable, why wouldn't the abortion clinics be? Surely they'd have her medical history, and surely they would refuse to preform such a procedure after so many had been done. Surely there must be a limit."
What? Surprised that abortionists don't have morals? Perhaps they are in it for the money, and not to help women?
What a thought.
No wonder pro-choicers are up in arms.