{"id":290853,"date":"2023-05-10T18:34:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T23:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=290853"},"modified":"2023-05-15T21:34:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T02:34:28","slug":"salt-n-pepa-refused-abortion-daughter-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/salt-n-pepa-refused-abortion-daughter-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt-N-Pepa singer refused abortion in her 20s: ‘Having my daughter… is the best thing’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hip-hop superstar duo Salt-N-Pepa is fighting back against claims that women can’t be mothers and still achieve their dreams… and along the way, one of them revealed that her journey included being pressured to have an abortion.<\/p>\n

Cheryl \u201cSalt\u201d James appeared with her rap partner Sandra “Pepa” Denton on the Tamron Hall Show, and Billboard<\/a> showed an advance clip, featuring the duo responding to the notion that women can’t have successful careers while being mothers.<\/p>\n

“They still sayin\u2019 that?\u201d Denton said. \u201cAnd that was why we are true to who we are. They could recognize \u2019cause we wanted to be moms and we was moms. We said, \u2018We can do it\u2019 and whatever came my way, I handled it, which was taking the good with the bad … \u2019cause someone has to do it! When they think it can\u2019t, they panic, the labels and people. \u2018Oh my god, how are you gonna? The sales! Sales, sales!\u2019 But you know, we did it.\u201d<\/p>\n

James then chimed in, added that she knows firsthand how intimidated industry executives are by mothers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do get scared. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever said this out loud, oooh Tamron!,” she said. “I was actually asked to have an abortion \u2014 I won\u2019t say by who \u2014 but to your point, yeah, you just have to know that it\u2019s something that you\u2019re capable of handling if you want a kid and you want to have a career. And it\u2019s definitely harder.”<\/p>\n