{"id":320005,"date":"2024-10-09T10:42:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=320005"},"modified":"2024-10-09T06:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T11:20:20","slug":"sally-field-abortion-molestation-promote-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sally-field-abortion-molestation-promote-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Sally Field’s ‘hideous’ abortion and ‘molestation’ story shouldn’t be used to promote more death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actress Sally Field is using the story of her “beyond hideous” illegal abortion to advocate for Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming election. In an Instagram post<\/a> urging people to vote in favor of “reproductive freedom,” she detailed the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of an abortion worker, and how “fate” stepped in a few months after her abortion when she landed her famous role of “Gidget.”<\/p>\n

She urged listeners, “We can\u2019t go back. We can\u2019t go back. We have to all stand up and fight.”<\/p>\n

In 1964, Fields traveled to Tijuana, Mexico, for an illegal abortion. She was just 17 years old. Her family doctor drove her, along with his wife and Field’s mother, to a “scrungy” street in Tijuana where she was handed a bag of cash and told to go into the facility and come right back after the abortion was over.<\/p>\n

Field’s story is not unlike that of other young girls who turn to abortion. Field was young, had no money, no support, and no hope for her future. “I had no choices in my life,” she said on Instagram. “I didn’t have a lot of family support in any way, or finances. I’d graduated from high school but had \u2014 no one ever said, ‘Go. How about college?’ I had nothing. I didn’t know what was going to be and then, I found out I was pregnant.”<\/p>\n

‘He was molesting me’<\/strong><\/p>\n

After entering the facility for the abortion, she was given no anesthesia, but “puffs of ether” that left her arms and legs feeling “numb and weird” and made her vulnerable to abuse.<\/p>\n

“It was beyond hideous and life-altering,” she said, adding, “I felt everything, how much pain I was in, and then I realized that the technician was actually molesting me. So I had to figure out, how can I make my arms move to push him away. And you know, so it was just, you know, this absolute pit of shame and then, when it was finished they said, ‘Go, go, go, go, go, go!’ like the building was on fire. And they didn’t want me there. It was illegal.”<\/p>\n

Abuse of patients during legal abortions<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Field’s story is very similar to the legal<\/em> abortion stories that began to come out of U.S. abortion facilities when the Supreme Court ruled to legalize abortion in Roe v. Wade<\/em> in 1973.\u00a0Women have been sexually abused at legal abortion facilities just as Field was in Mexico.<\/p>\n

Once one of the most prominent abortionists in Arizona, Brian Finkel<\/a>\u00a0is currently in jail after being found guilty of 22 counts of felony sexual abuse on his abortion patients. More than 100 women told police that he had sexually assaulted them when they were in his office.<\/p>\n

Finkel is not an outlier. Life Dynamics’ report on America’s Carefully Hidden Sex Scandal<\/a> details 30 abortionists who have been accused or convicted of the sexual abuse of patients. And many accounts of horrific sexual abuse suffered by legal abortion patients are also chronicled in the late Mark Crutcher’s book, “Lime 5<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Women have for decades said<\/a> they “felt like cattle” and that abortion facility staff “wanted me out the door as soon as I got in the exam room.” Women said they “felt rushed and the staff came off as uncaring.” But they weren’t rushed and herded out the door so the facility could keep from getting caught doing illegal abortions; they were rushed so that the facility and abortionist could profit from as many abortions as possible.<\/p>\n

In fact, women are still experiencing horrific things<\/em> because of legal abortion, with many leaving Google Reviews about frightening injuries<\/a> and even abortion coercion<\/a> they’ve experienced at the hands of industry leader Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

One former Planned Parenthood manager, Ramona Trevi\u00f1o, said, “It was a struggle because I felt like Planned Parenthood treated women like cattle. We talked about reducing the amount of time that we saw … our new patients.”<\/p>\n

Another former manager, Sue Thayer, explained<\/a> in an interview with Live Action, “Over the years I worked there \u2026 up went abortion goals and all the other goals we were required to meet. The nurse practitioner that had been there four days a week was now there two hours a week, but we were still seeing the same amount of clients. It felt wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen were just herded through,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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