{"id":314198,"date":"2024-06-19T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=314198"},"modified":"2024-07-01T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T17:54:41","slug":"comedian-grief-guilt-followed-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/comedian-grief-guilt-followed-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian says she wasn’t prepared for the grief and guilt that followed her abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British comedian, author, and actor Grace Campbell thought having an abortion was going to be easy and was completely unprepared for the pain she felt afterwards. In an essay written for the Guardian<\/a>, Campbell explained how she was never warned about what truly to expect, and how difficult it has been to marry her pro-abortion beliefs with the pain her abortion caused her.<\/p>\n

Having the abortion<\/h3>\n

Campbell wrote that, due to a desire to “please a stranger in the moment,” she agreed to have sex without using a condom, and became pregnant. Unsurprisingly, that decision led to “consequences that I had to deal with alone.” When she told her friends, she was confused at her own reaction:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you think you\u2019re going to do?\u201d asked Anna. I didn\u2019t know. Confusion overwhelmed me. I\u2019d always imagined I wouldn\u2019t think twice about getting an abortion. I\u2019m Grace Campbell, I like staying out until 5am, not paying my parking tickets on time and sneaking vapes into cinemas. I\u2019ve never thought about having a child. I\u2019ve been too busy behaving like one. But now, at 29, in what felt like my last gasp of young adulthood, the words, \u201cI\u2019ll have an abortion,\u201d didn\u2019t slip off my tongue.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ultimately, she had to decide what she wanted to do, and opted for the abortion, reasoning that it would amount to just taking a few days off of work and then going back to her normal life. Under United Kingdom (UK) law, women have to provide a reason for the abortion to their doctors, and Campbell thought this would be a good opportunity for humor.<\/p>\n

“I thought, if I can make the doctor laugh, then my abortion will be OK. ‘Well,’ I said to him, ‘I am a comedian. And the man who got me pregnant is a musician and I just think that I should spare the world another nepo-baby,'” she recalled. “He didn\u2019t laugh. Instead he gave me a pill.”<\/p>\n

The abortionist also instructed her to take another pill later, but Campbell said she was grossly unprepared for what to expect; she was told to expect some cramping and bleeding for a few days, and then everything would be over. Like so many other women have experienced, the reality of a chemical abortion was much more extreme.<\/p>\n