with the headline, “Abortion: No Easy Answers.” In fact, MacGraw had no regret or confusion about her abortion. “I had my child at 31. That experience is the most extraordinary and important thing in my life. In my early 20s, however, I simply wasn’t ready emotionally or financially for the kind of responsibility that good parenting involves.” She was making very little money, and getting an abortion was awful.
She eventually got connected with a provider. “I didn’t know anything about him; I didn’t even know if he was a doctor.” She went because she felt that she had no other option. The illegal, unregulated procedure cost $2,000 and was “unspeakable,” she said. But she wasn’t sorry. “I didn’t then and still don’t feel any shame about what I did.
The Irish songwriter explained that the abortion was a hard and painful decision for her and added, “I wouldn’t lobby for or against abortion, but I would lobby very strongly for the right of women to have control over their own bodies and make decisions for themselves. Nobody has the right to tell anyone else what to think or believe. Especially the Catholic church with the amount of murdering and pillaging that it’s done.
What crap. Abortion is murder.